Nothing About Me - Without Me ! By Dr. Zakiuddin Ahmed The concept of empowered patient or ePT is the crux of the Patient Centric Healthcare Model, where the patients now expect - ‘Nothing about me-without me’. It is imperative that physicians not only understand this concept but also become value added partners in this [...]
Dr. Asif Imam’s name is synonymous with SINA Health, Education and Welfare Trust which he founded in 2007. An immunologist and and an allergist by profession, Dr. Asif moved back to Pakistan after 20 years of clinical practice in USA and since then been actively working towards creating quality healthcare solutions for the poor. He [...]
Expanded Programme on Immunization (EPI) is a disease prevention activity aiming at reducing illness, disability, morbidity and mortality from childhood diseases preventable by Immunization. Recently Expanded Programme on Immunization (EPI) Islamabad in collaboration with UNICEF-Pakistan and Mediations Trust organized a Media Leaders Forum on Child’s Immunization at a local hotel in Islamabad. It was attended [...]
The Sindh government has decided to upgrade Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre (JPMC) and National Institute of Cardiovascular Diseases (NICVD) to provide quality healthcare facilities to the peoples. Presiding over a meeting recently, Syed Qaim Ali Shah, Chief Minister said the provincial government plan to upgrade the two medical facilities should be executed immediately. A petition [...]
Recent intensive efforts to improve collection and reporting of data on tuberculosis (TB) are shedding new light on the epidemic, revealing that there are almost half a million more cases of the disease than previously estimated. WHO’s "Global Tuberculosis Report 2014", published today, shows that 9 million people developed TB in 2013, and 1.5 million [...]
By Dr. Zakiuddin Ahmed We know that in an ideal healthcare system, Patients should have access to quality healthcare at an affordable cost. These three prerequisites of a healthcare system are the basic right of every individual. Doctors study medicine to seek, understand and cure patients’ illnesses. Governments and regulatory bodies are continuously seeking to [...]
By Dr. Muhammad Najeeb Durrani, Epidemiologist, Islamabad Attention of Health Authorities is needed to make interventions for basic health needs/ threats for the participants of the two protest rallies. Their stay is prolonged for an indefinite period hence they can be declared Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) of war and strife. The participants include women and [...]
By Muneeba Azmat, Ayub Medical College, Abbottabad Ebola virus disease or Ebola hemorrhagic fever is a lethal infectious disease that has become the topic of many tabloids and papers after the March 2014 Ebola outbreak in West Africa. The outbreak that was first reported from Guinea, has now spread to Sierra Leone, Liberia and Nigeria and [...]
By Dr. Marriam Gul Thaheem Health care is one of the basic needs of human like air water and food. Everyone has right to attain the highest standard of physical and mental health, without any social and gender discrimination. Health care system clearly encompasses the preventive health care system for example health immunization. Public health care [...]
Abstract PURPOSE: We studied the bioequivalence of a new once-daily regimen of tamoxifen citrate relative to the standard twice-daily regimen of tamoxifen citrate, an established antiestrogenic treatment for breast cancer. PATIENTS AND METHODS: Of 30 women with breast cancer, 27 completed this open, two-period, crossover randomized trial. During one 3-month period, patients took one standard [...]
Cooking and carcinogens Carcinogens are cancer-causing substances found in food. Carcinogens can form during the cooking or preserving process—mostly in relation to meat—and as foods start to spoil. Examples of foods that have carcinogens are cured, dried, and preserved meats (e.g. bacon, sausage, beef jerky); burned or charred meats; smoked foods; and foods that have [...]
Department of Molecular Pathology, Dow University of Health Sciences for the very first time in Pakistan organized three days hands-on training workshop in collaboration with Fulbright United States Educational Foundation in Pakistan (USEFP) at Dow Diagnostic Reference and Research Laboratory (DDRRL) to provide innovative scientific ideas of using reverse phase High Performance Liquid Chromatography (rp-HPLC) [...]
Pakistan is expected to become the third most populous country in the world in less than 40 years with a sizeable aging population. It is estimated that 36 million Pakistanis will be well over 50 years of age by that time and at possible risk of developing dementia, a progressive disease which results in severe [...]
Some treatments for prostate cancer, while initially effective at controlling the disease, not only stop working over time but actually start driving tumour growth, a major new study shows. Researchers identified the emergence of drug-resistant cancer cells by testing repeated blood samples from patients with advanced prostate cancer.They set out a new 'treatment paradigm' - [...]
New data released today by the United Nations show that under-five mortality rates have dropped by 49% between 1990 and 2013. The average annual reduction has accelerated – in some countries it has even tripled – but overall progress is still short of meeting the global target of a two-thirds decrease in under-five mortality by [...]
