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The WHO has started testing the Ervebo vaccine against the Bundibugyo strain in Ituri, with Oxford and Moderna vaccines to follow. Kenya has nine cases in one cluster.
11 Oct 2026
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Surgery, medicine and dialysis get new machines first, house jobs get a new selection policy, and three surgical master's programmes start at Islamabad's biggest public hospital.
10 Oct 2026
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After 24 days of a pen-down strike for a 30% pay rise, doctors at LRH have walked out of the wards. Here is what patients should do.
1 Oct 2026
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Reports of four to six HIV-positive dialysis patients in Khanewal district, one ELISA-positive so far by the hospital's count, and an inquiry under way. What patients should do now.
27 Sept 2026
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Liver, lung, breast and kidney tumours up to 2 cm can now be frozen and destroyed at no cost. Who qualifies, which hospitals refer patients, and how the first 15 are chosen.
27 Sept 2026
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Karachi airport has given Umrah pilgrims another month, until 10am on 20 November. In Peshawar the certificate is compulsory from 10am on 25 October.
23 Sept 2026
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She came in last week with facial lesions. NIH confirmed the virus. Hospital sources say she is responding to treatment.
22 Sept 2026
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Confirmed cases have risen from 9 to 53 since mid-September and 14 patients are in hospital. Officials say the count covers government hospitals only.
19 Sept 2026
