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New law in Sindh introduces ‘extraordinary measures’ to ensure vaccination of children against range of infectious diseases

Medical research has brought slow but significant changes to disease diagnostics, drugs, and surgery. Disruptive medical inventions have converted some "surgical" diseases to medical ones, reducing the need for surgery. Examples include polio vaccine, antibiotics for gastric ulcers, and Ponsetti plaster casts for club foot. We hope for more such…

Initiative launched to ensure zero-dose children and pregnant women receive vaccinations. Health Minister Veena George administers oral polio vaccine to 3-yr-old Mahia. Vaccines against 12 VPDs to be provided during 3-phase campaign. 18,744 pregnant women, 61,752 children up to 2 yrs & 54,837 in 2-5 yrs age group to be…

A Levies force senior officer and four others were injured in a bomb attack in the Mazai Adha region of Pakistan's Qila Abdullah on Thursday evening, Pakistan-based Dawn reported. Read further on Dynamite News :

Her genetic material, taken without her knowledge in 1951, has helped facilitate numerous scientific breakthroughs, including the development of the polio and COVID-19 vaccines.

Police say gunmen have opened fire on Pakistani police escorting a team of polio workers during a door-to-door vaccination campaign in the southwest, killing two police officers

Kentucky sentor is a polio survivor and has a history of accidental falls

Republican Senate Minority Leader was led away by colleagues after he appeared unable to keep speaking during press conference

No matter the polio status of a country and which vaccine is being used, as long as wild poliovirus is present and any country continues to use the oral polio vaccine (OPV), the risk of polio emergence, including in polio-free countries, is real in a globalised village especially when vaccine…