December 29, 2007
The World Health Organization (WHO) said on Thursday it had established a single case of human infection of the H5̍ bird flu virus in a sick family in Pakistan but there was no apparent risk of it spreading further.
A statement from the UN agency said tests in its special laboratories in Cairo and […]
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Business Recorder, December 30, 2007:
Absence of doctors and paramedics at many of the hospitals on Saturday caused severe difficulties to the patients. The out- patient departments of most of the hospitals, remained closed and a few of the patients arriving were attended at the emergency sections, where the staffers appeared to be exhausted after performing […]
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Purpose: To assess the gastric emptying pattern of a standardized solid meal in patients with non-ulcer dyspepsia by using scintigraphic techniques (see also Dyspepsia). Methods Results for the half-emptying time for solids (T-1/2) and percent clearance of solid meal at 60min (C-60) of patients (n=35) having non-ulcer dyspepsia according to Rome 11 criteria were compared […]
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DAWN KARACHI, July 23: Doctors at a private teaching university on health
sciences have warned that Karachi may see the outbreak of the
mosquito-borne dengue fever this year as well.
Fearing that dengue infection might continue as an annual threat in
Pakistan, they underlined the need for running special campaigns to
educate the masses about the preventive measures, besides making
concerted […]
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New research, “Clinical presentation and genotype of hepatitis delta in Karachi,” is the subject of a report. In this recent report, researchers in Karachi, Pakistan conducted a study “To assess the clinical presentation and genotypes of delta hepatitis in local population. In this prospective study, 39 consecutive patients who were positive for HBsAg and hepatitis […]
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I came across this news item here. Sounds like a very encouraging plan, if the Government of Pakistan and its Ministry of Health actually do something to implement it. The new restrictions were announced on World No Tobacco Day this year and include the following
- no electronic media advertisements except between 3am and 4am
- no […]
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Perhaps its not so dark after all. If the program reported in this news item below is truly implemented, we will have a good number of iron deficiency anemia cases reduced. Comments are welcome.
AMERSFOORT, THE NETHERLANDS- May 29, 2007- The Pakistan Ministry of Health has awarded Fortitech Asia Pacific the contract to manufacture and supply […]
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While research in our institutions continues to focus on problems of INTERNATIONAL importance, young and old doctors alike sometimes forget about their very own country Pakistan and it’s LOCAL problems. Gastroenteritis remains an important problem for our country and it is painfully obvious that the answer lies not in curative medicine but simple public health […]
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Surprised to read this news item on PakTribune claiming WHO has decided to suspend the brand of hepatitis B vaccine currently in use in Pakistan following deaths due to its administration in a few countries. Pakistan’s Ministry of Health has ignored the instructions and continues its use.
ISLAMABAD: World Health Organization (WHO) has suspended the use […]
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In what looks more like a high level small talk, Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz met his Health Minister to talk about increase in health spending, controlling malaria, HIV/AIDS, hepatitis and improving MCH in the country. Pakistan Times reports:
By Sheeraz Aslam
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz has said that the government is committed to achieve the millennium […]
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Another one of DAWN’s daring reports on the state of the leprosy hospital run by the city government in Karachi.
By Meera Jamal
KARACHI: The agony of Gregor Samsa in Franz Kafka’s The Metamorphosis of being rejected by his loved ones for no fault of his own, but due to a deformity that suddenly emerged out […]
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Dawn reported today how “Hundreds (were) deprived of kidneys in Punjab”
By Zulqernain Tahir
LAHORE, May 26: The number of kidney removal victims (both willing and unwilling) in Punjab can be in hundreds, police investigators told Dawn on Saturday. They said they were interrogating the owner of Masood Hospital, Dr Zaki, and his son Dr Masood, […]
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Mycobacterium tuberculosis Asian strain 1 and Beijing isolates predominate in Pakistan.“The estimated incidence of tuberculosis in Pakistan is 181 per 100,000, however, there is limited information on Mycobacterium tuberculosis genotypes circulating in the country.”“We studied 314 M. tuberculosis clinical isolates; of these, 197 (63%) isolates grouped into 22 different clusters, while 119 (37%) had unique […]
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A contaminated water source and person-to-person spread were the main transmission routes for two cholera outbreaks in Karachi, Pakistan.
According to a recent report published in the journal Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, “In July 2002 and June 2003, cholera outbreaks were detected by a diarrhea surveillance system in a village […]
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A study at Aga Khan University in Karachi looked at the effectiveness of fluroquinilones againts Simian virus-40 that encodes helicases to facilitate DNA replication. Following is a report on their findings:
Data detailed in “Inhibition of Simian virus 40 large T antigen helicase activity by fluoroquinolones” have been presented. “Fluoroquinolones represent a potent group of antibiotics […]
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