Amybact Responded with Amybact DMEP 2014, a series of Diarrhea Management Education Programs throughout Pakistan, February to June 2014 Unfortunately, diarrhea maintains a leadership role in mortality and morbidity of Pakistani children despite decades of concerted efforts and special programs. To mitigate the imprints of diarrhoea in Pakistan, ICI Life Sciences Pharmaceuticals division launched a [...]
Speakers at a press briefing informed that the exponential rise in the country’s population is not only the country’s biggest problem but also a biggest scandal. Millions of rupees have been devoured but it continues to rise exponentially like a nuclear bomb imploding within the country. Sindh fairly lagged behind the rest of the country [...]
World Health Organisation (WHO) and European Respiratory Society (ERS) in collaboration with the Italian Ministry of Health hosted a global consultation on the elimination of tuberculosis (TB) in low-incidence countries aimed at adapting the recently adopted global strategy and targets for TB prevention, care and control after 2015 to the specific context and challenges of low-incidence countries. [...]
Atomic Energy Medical Center, Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre (JPMC) Karachi to mark World Cancer Day 2014 organized a Symposium and Poster Competition among all the medical students of Karachi and Hyderabad region with the title of ‘Cancer Prevention is possible’ recently at JPMC Karachi. Nuclear Scientist Dr. Tariq Suleja, Prof. Syed Hassan Manzoor Zaidi, Oncologist, [...]
Prevention is better than Cure” is the crux of the tale shared by a Family who have seen the horrifying effects of the disease By Azhar Nisar Sheikh, Health Education Officer, Federal EPI Cell “A small insect bite or an ordinary rash on my children gives me a nightmare now” says Muhammad Younis a [...]
Joint Venture between Multinational Pharmaceutical Company and Leading Chinese Pharmaceutical Company Aims to Provide High-Quality and Affordable Branded Generic Medicines for Patients in China and Global Markets "Providing high-quality, accessible and affordable health care to people over a vast area and from broad socioeconomic levels has become a primary objective of Chinese healthcare reforms, which is aligned [...]
Ambrx Inc. and Zhejiang Hisun Pharmaceutical Company Ltd. (SSE Code: 600267) today announced a collaboration for the development and commercialization of bispecifics based on Ambrx technology for the treatment of cancer. Hisun will have commercial rights to the products in China, while Ambrx will retain commercial rights outside of China and will be entitled to receive [...]
The Pakistan Urogynaecologist Association (PUGA) is working as an independent non-profit organization in country. Its aims and objectives are to work for the betterment of the quality of life in women suffering from urogynaecological problems. Recently, PUGA organised first Symposium on Urogynaecology at a local hotel in Karachi which was attended by more than 150 [...]
An public awareness program about Ramadan Fasting and Health for general public was organized by School of Public Health in collaboration of Research Department and National Institute of Diabetes & Endocrinology, Dow University of Health Sciences at its Ojha Campus. The theme of the program was to create awareness about self-care among general public as [...]
New studies look at the emotional fallout from type 1 and type 2 disease Although diabetes distress is often mistaken for depression, the good news is that simple interventions appear to help significantly reduce this distress, according to new research. The need to correctly identify depression is also highlighted in a second new study. This [...]
Sindh government had done a wonderful job through promulgating Sindh Child Marriage Restraint Act 2013, but the Act still needed to be implemented in letter and spirit as the cases of early and child marriages in Sindh have not decreased yet. This was stated by participants of the Capacity-Building Session on ‘Existing Laws on Early [...]
The Sindh government will introduce a new population control policy in four months. The policy is being prepared by population welfare department in collaboration with United Nation Population Fund. These views were express by Sharmila Farooqui, Provincial Adviser on Culture while addressing a seminar organised by the population welfare department to mark the World Population [...]
Commissioner Karachi, Shoaib Ahmed Siddiqui constituted a committee to eradicate Dengue and Naegleria from the city. The committee comprises representatives from the Karachi Metropolitan Corporation, Karachi Water and Sewerage Board, Defence Housing Authority, Pakistan State Oil, EDO Health Karachi Zafar Ijaz and Deputy Commissioners. Presiding over a Meeting at Commissioner Office, Karachi, Shoaib Ahmed Siddiqui [...]
Providing basic medical services, including polio vaccinations, to children in Pakistan’s poorest and most conflict-ridden areas is the key to ending polio worldwide, argues Dr Zulfiqar Bhutta in a comment piece in this week’s Nature. Dr Bhutta, who is the Founding Director of the Centre for Excellence in Women and Child Health at Aga Khan University and [...]
A new report by UNAIDS shows that 19 million of the 35 million people living with HIV globally do not know their HIV-positive status. "Whether you live or die should not depend on access to an HIV test," said Michel Sidibé, Executive Director of UNAIDS. "Smarter scale-up is needed to close the gap between people who know [...]
