Health

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s capital Islamabad has fully vaccinated 50 percent of its over 1.16 million people against COVID-19, becoming the “first city in the country” to do so, Planning Minister Asad Umar said on Sunday. The South Asian nation of more than 220 million people launched its COVID-19 vaccination campaign in …

Karachi: Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah in a statement on the status of corona virus said that 15097 samples were tested in the last 24 hours, as a result of which 891 new cases were reported while 26 more patients died due to the epidemic. He said that …

NEW YORK: For people with high blood pressure, starting an exercise regimen may lower blood pressure by as much as taking medication would, a large analysis suggests. Researchers combined data from nearly 400 randomized trials that assessed the effects of blood pressure drugs or of exercise on blood pressure. They …