Featured Social Issues

The Danger of Unsafe Abortions: Their Causes and Complications

An unsafe abortion refers to an unhygienic or unhealthy abortion, performed by an unskilled or untrained birth attendant and involving inappropriate methods. According to World [more…]

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Featured Global Health

Three Per Hour: Exploring the Stark Realities of Maternal Mortality

In 2015, the Millennium Development Goals were drafted as eight international targets for the time-bound eradication of poverty in all its dimensions. Pakistan happens to [more…]

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Featured Medicine

Hepatitis and its Sequelae: A Preventable Impingement on Pakistan’s Chronic Disease Burden

When I stepped into the practical field of medicine after several years of formal studies, I immediately encountered a great influx of patients presenting to [more…]