By Rizwan Ahmed Kiani, Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences, Islamabad Thalassemia is an inherited genetic disorder associated with low hemoglobin due to defective production of hemoglobin and too much destruction of red blood cells. These are caused by mutation in ? or ? globin genes of haemoglobin. Haemoglobin production is affected in red blood cells, [...]
Prof. Dr. Sumbul Shamim, Dean, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences & Principal, Dow College of Pharmacy, Dow University of Health Sciences, Karachi “If we believe men have any personal rights at all as human beings, they have an absolute right to such a measure of good health as society, and society alone is able to [...]
National University of Modern Languages (NUML) in collaboration with Thalassaemia Awareness and Prevention in Pakistan (TAPP) organized a Seminar at its auditorium aiming to create awareness among students regarding thalassaemia. The Awareness Seminar was attended by a large number of students, faculty members and health experts. Ayesha Abid, President, TAPP sharing her views on the [...]
Omega Diagnostics Group PLC has announced the imminent launch of VISITECT® CD4, a ground-breaking point-of-care (POC) disposable test for the detection of CD4 T-cell levels, aimed at reaching HIV-positive patients across the globe. VISITECT® CD4, developed by the Burnet Institute in Melbourne, Australia, is an affordable POC test that enables CD4 T-cell levels to be determined, quickly [...]
U.S.researchers are preparing to begin human clinical trials of a novel therapy that uses genetically modified stem cells to fight HIV, the virus that causes AIDS. The therapy would populate a patient’s diseased immune system with healthy new cells resistant to HIV infection. Scientists believe the new therapy could mean a functional cure for patients [...]
The fate of over 525,000 cancer patients is at extreme risk as 14 cancer hospitals run by the Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission (PAEC) are facing acute financial crunch. PAEC, under its Nuclear Medicine and Oncology Department, is providing the facilities of diagnosis and treatment of cancer and allied diseases to the patients from all [...]
Speaker at a Seminar on Pediatric Illnesses at Abbassi Shaheed Hospital has said that the quality of life of patients with thalassaemia can be eased by the timely transfusion of properly screened blood, proper iron chelating, and provision of adequate medication and physical rehabilitation to the patients. They were speaking at a Seminar organized by [...]
Patients’ Welfare Association (PWA) along with Health Department of Sindh inaugurated Thalassemia Day Care Center at Civil Hospital, Karachi. Provincial Minister of Health, Dr. Sagheer alongwtih renowned industrialist S. M. Muneer performed the Inauguration Ceremony. Secretary Health Syed Hashim Raza Zaidi, Medical Superintendent Civil Hospital Prof. Saeed Qureshi and volunteers of Patients Welfare Association (PWA) [...]
