National Institute of Diabetes & Endocrinology, Dow University of Health Sciences (DUHS), Director, Prof. Dr. Zaman Shaikh has shown great concern over rising cases of diabetes in Pakistan and asked for raising awareness amongst people to check onslaught of the disease. He was briefing the media in connection with a 3-day International Conference on Diabetes [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
In keeping with its practice of sharing key statistics and results of clinical studies with Physicians, Sanofi-aventis Pakistan limited organized a Cardio-Thrombosis Poster Session titled “Heart-to-Heart” recently at its Head office in Karachi. It was attended by a large gathering of leading Physicians, Cardiologists, Diabetologists and Family Physicians from across the country. The event saw [...]
Primary Care Diabetes Association in collaboration with Diabetes Pakistan, Jinnah Allama Iqbal Institute of Diabetes & Endocrinology & Servier Research & Pharmaceuticals Lahore organized a National Diabetes Certificate Course 2011 on 20th March 2011 at a local hotel in Karachi. The aim of the National Diabetes Certificate Course 2011 is to update in [...]
On the occasion of World Kidney Day, Medical Review aiming to increase awareness about the disease that often gets buried under the prevalence of breast cancer and heart disease Interviewed Dr. Mohammad Akmal, Professor of Medicine in the Division of Nephrology at University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA. He is also the author of [...]
By Abdul Sattar Sohrani Previous guidelines recommended low-dose aspirin therapy for the primary prevention of stroke in patients with type 1 or type 2 diabetes mellitus who were at increased cardiovascular (CV) risk. Risk factors included patient age older than 40 years, a family history of CV disease, hypertension, smoking, dyslipidemia, or albuminuria. Aspirin therapy [...]
An Advocacy Seminar on “Rights Based Approached to Reproductive Health” was organized by Dow University of Health Sciences (DUHS) in collaboration with Reproductive Health Steering Committee and AAHUNG (an NGO working in the field of Reproductive health) recently at Dow Medical College, Karachi. This one day seminar was preceded by three day Hands-on workshop on [...]
