Members of the Advisory Board for a global scientific strategy “Towards an HIV Cure” today launched the Rome Statement for an HIV Cure calling for an acceleration of HIV cure research. The announcement was made at the 6th IAS Conference on HIV Pathogenesis, Treatment and Prevention (IAS 2011) held in Rome. Recent scientific [...]
The World Health Organisation has issued guidelines to health department to prevent spread of diarrhoea among people in the seven affected districts of the province. “The cases of diarrhoea are being reported from some districts but situation is under control. The people in the affected areas should be educated to use boiled water to stay [...]
A year after devastating monsoon floods hit Pakistan, many of the more than 18 million affected people — almost half of them children — are struggling to rebuild their shattered lives against a background of dwindling humanitarian funding and fear of new floods. The floods, which at their worst covered up to one-fifth of the [...]
One year after Pakistan’s worst flooding in decades, UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund, continues to deliver comprehensive reproductive health care services as part of its humanitarian response. In August 2010, the Fund’s immediate response after the floods struck was to support basic reproductive health services for the displaced. Now, during the recovery phase, the [...]
The International AIDS Society (IAS) - Industry Liaison Forum (ILF) celebrates its ten year anniversary, adding another important milestone to this already historic year in the global response to HIV/AIDS. This year marks 30 years since the first reported AIDS cases, ten years since the UNGASS Declaration of Commitment on HIV/AIDS was adopted, and ten [...]
Heartfile participate International AIDS Society Conference Pre – Meeting held on August 9, 2011 in Rome. It was hosted by Wafaa El-Sadr, Rifat Atun and Jean Paul Moatti. The meeting was chaired and moderated by President Heartfile, Dr. Sania Nishtar. The panelists included Ambassador Eric Goosby (United States Global AIDS Coordinator), Bart Janssen [...]
NEXT Pharmaceuticals (Pvt) Ltd as a part of Continued Medical Education (CME) Program organized a lecture on “Rationale of Fixed Dose Combination (FDC) in the management of DM and HTN” at a local hotel in Karachi. Prof. Dr. M. A. Ebrahim, Consultant Endocrinologist was the Guest Speaker while Physician & Heart Specialist, Prof. [...]
On a special visit to PIMS, Islamabad, Muhammad Fareed, Publisher & Managing Editor, Medical Review interviewed Dr. Haider Sherazi, Associate Professor, Children Hospital, Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (PIMS), Islamabad. Following are the excerpts of the interview. Q - Tell us something about yourself. Ans - I did my MBBS from Rawalpindi Medical College., Diploma [...]
Hypertension and diabetes are major risk factors for cardiovascular diseases and a steep rise in the prevalence of these risk factors explains the CVD epidemic world over. According to WHO, Pakistan is one of the 10 countries in the world with the highest prevalence of diabetes and has one of the fastest increase in the [...]
College of Family Medicine Pakistan (CFMP) conducted a 2 day nutritional educational program for Family Physicians titled "Integrating Nutrition in Clinical practice" recently at PMA House Karachi. The program was attended by eminent GPs and Family Physicians from Karachi, Hyderabad, Nawabshah and Larkana. The course faculty included: Prof. Iqbal A. Memon, Specialist Children's Diseases, gastroenterology [...]
Febrol She contains Paracetamol which is Analgesic and Pamabrom which is mild Diuretic. Combination of Paracetamol and Pamabrom i.e., Febrol-She is indicated for the relief of period’s pain, bloatedness, water weight gain and discomforts associated with premenstrual and menstrual periods. Febrol She (Paracetamol +Pamabrom) is available as Caplet of 500mg/25mg. By introducing Febrol She (combination [...]
Position holders of the 2011 Aga Khan University Examination Board’s Higher Secondary School Certificate (HSSC) and Secondary School Certificate (SSC) examinations were presented their awards by last year’s top performers at an award ceremony today - symbolising the continuing journey of knowledge from person to person. This year, Hani Ghulam Abbas of Aga Khan Higher [...]
Pakistan is not on track to achieve most Millennium development goals (MDGS) related to health, nutrition and population. Given its current rate of progress, in 2015 Pakistan’s infant mortality rate (IMR) will be 65 deaths per 1,000 live births and the under-five mortality rate U5MR will be 78,considerably above the MDG4 targets of 33 and [...]
Dow University of Health Sciences (DUHS) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with AsiaCare aiming to provide health insurance scheme to the parents and family members of Dow Alumni and overseas Pakistani. The MoU Singing Ceremony was held today at the Vice Chancellor Secretariat. The MoU was inked by Prof. Masood Hameed [...]
A new study published in the American Journal of Transplantation reveals an association between the human papillomavirus (betaPV) infection and cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) in organ transplant recipients. HPV is known to cause cervical cancer and SCC in the anogenital area and also plays a role in some forms of head and neck cancer. [...]
