Medication errors kill 0.5 million people each year in Pakistan
medrev 2018-05-10T11:58:57+00:00Medication errors kill 0.5 million people each year in Pakistan
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04, 2018
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04, 2015
Meeting to discuss pharmaceutical industry issues
medrev 2015-04-26T14:53:02+00:00A Meeting of the Standing Committee on National Health Services, Regulation and Coordination was held recently in the office of the Drug Regulatory Authority of Pakistan (DRAP), Sindhi Muslim Cooperative Housing Society (SMCHS), Karachi under the Chairmanship of Mr. Khalid Hussain Magsi, MNA to analyze the working performance of the Central Drugs Laboratory (CDL), Karachi [...]
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07, 2014
Pfizer & Hisun announce launch of Hisun-Pfizer Pharmaceuticals Co., Ltd.
medrev 2017-04-26T12:35:00+00:00Joint 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 [...]
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04, 2014
WHO issues its first hepatitis C treatment guidelines
medrev 2017-04-26T12:35:01+00:00WHO has issued its first guidance for the treatment of hepatitis C, a chronic infection that affects an estimated 130 million to 150 million people and results in 350 000 to 500 000 deaths a year. The publication of the "WHO Guidelines for the screening, care and treatment of persons with hepatitis C infection" coincides [...]
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02, 2014
Countries seek improvements in Malaria tests
medrev 2017-04-26T12:35:02+00:00At a meeting jointly organized by the Roll Back Malaria Partnership and the Institute of Tropical Medicine in Antwerp, manufacturers and implementers of rapid diagnostic tests (RDTs), used to diagnose malaria at the point of care, agreed on a set of required features for RDTs in an effort to improve use and boost the scale [...]
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11, 2013
Re-Emergence of Avian influenza A(H7N9) virus: Another Pandemic Threat
medrev 2017-04-26T12:35:06+00:00Dr. Muhammad Najeeb Durrani, Epidemiologist, District Surveillance Coordinator, District TB Coordinator (DTC), In-charge Dengue Fever Surveillance Cell, Member Global Outbreak Alert and Response Network (GOARN) Health Department ICT, Islamabad After 2004 when Influenza appeared at global horizon it was initially localized in the migratory birds and appeared as H5N1 called the Avian Influenza later it [...]
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10, 2013
First-ever targeted roadmap outlines steps to end childhood TB deaths
medrev 2017-04-26T12:35:07+00:00The deaths of more than 74 000 children from Tuberculosis (TB) could be prevented each year through measures outlined in the first ever action plan developed specifically on TB and children. The Roadmap for Childhood TB: Toward Zero Deaths, launched by global TB leaders in Washington D.C., estimates that US$120 million per year could have a [...]
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09, 2013
Preparations and ongoing activities for outbreaks of Dengue Fever in Islamabad
medrev 2017-04-26T12:35:08+00:00Dengue is transmitted by the bite of an Aedes mosquito infected with any one of the four dengue viruses. It occurs in tropical and sub-tropical areas of the world. Symptoms appear 3—14 days after the infective bite. Dengue fever is a febrile illness that affects infants, young children and adults. Symptoms range from a mild [...]
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09, 2013
Global child deaths down by almost half since 1990
medrev 2017-04-26T12:35:08+00:00In 2012, approximately 6.6 million children worldwide – 18 000 children per day – died before reaching their fifth birthday, according to a new report released today by UNICEF, WHO, the World Bank Group and the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs/Population Division. This is roughly half the number of under-fives who died [...]
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08, 2013
Editorial – Across border drug prices a difficult task
medrev 2017-04-26T12:35:09+00:00Comparing the prices of medicines across borders is an intellectual challenge for academics, a profitable business for consultants and a difficult issue for pharmaceuticals companies. Growing concern is appetite for the practice among healthcare systems in richer and poorer countries like. Recent efforts by the Chinese government to step up scrutiny of drug prices reflects [...]
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05, 2013
Joint action against spurious drugs needed to save human lives – Experts
medrev 2013-06-03T17:45:38+00:00Spurious and counterfeit medicines in Pakistan are a big problem and many deaths occur due to use of spurious drugs. Civil society, media, consumers and medicine manufacturers should join hands to stop the unchecked use of fake medicines in Pakistan. This was stated by caretaker Sindh Health Minister Dr. Junaid Ali Shah at a seminar [...]
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02, 2013
Symposium on Molecular Medicine and Drug Research in Pakistan
medrev 2013-05-14T15:26:53+00:00Speakers at a Symposium expressed great concern over the deaths of over 200 children suffering from measles in Sindh and termed it a matter of apprehension for health experts and scientists working in the area of molecular medicine and stressed on to conduct extensive research on diseases like measles and polio at the molecular level. [...]
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06, 2012
Medication for medullary thyroid cancer in final stage of development
medrev 2017-04-26T12:35:16+00:00Cabozantinib, a medication for the treatment of medullary thyroid cancer, has shown promising results in final-stage testing. Until now, there was no medication available in Belgium for treating this rare form of thyroid cancer. Dr. Patrick Schöffski, professor of oncology at the University of Leuven (KU Leuven), presented the results at the annual meeting of [...]
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06, 2012
Global leaders, health experts promote new plan to reduce child mortality
medrev 2017-04-26T12:35:16+00:00Top Officials from 80 Nations and a broad coalition of Public and Private Health Groups are calling for intensified global efforts to curb the number of children under five dying from preventable diseases. Public Health Officials say that the ambitious new strategy aims to reduce child mortality from 7.6 million to one million annually within [...]
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01, 2012
Purchase system of drugs centralized
medrev 2012-02-05T17:19:28+00:00The Sindh Health Department has directed the officials in charge of all government, district hospitals and disease control programs to purchase medicines through a centralized system as opposed to the decentralized system practised earlier. The health department will be responsible for providing medicines to departments concerned only after all required details are submitted. According to [...]
