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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10, 2016
Pakistan to enhance indigenous vaccine production capacity
medrev 2016-11-05T18:45:59+00:00National Institute of Health today organized a Discussion Forum on Indigenous vaccine production. Leading pharmaceutical companies, public and private sector research and academic institution, non-governmental organizations and various Ministries and Divisions participated in the day long discussion forum. Secretary Ministry of National Health Services Muhammad Ayub Sheikh presided the Discussion Forum. The forum took stock [...]
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08, 2016
Pak Pharma & Health Care Expo : Pharmaceuticals stresses to link prices with inflation
medrev 2017-04-26T12:34:49+00:00Pharmaceuticals have demanded government to link drug prices with inflation and allow at least 50 percent of inflation rates to be increased. They also urged Drug Regulatory Authority Pakistan (DRAP) to help domestic pharmaceutical industry to tap big international markets for exports. This was said by former Chairman Pakistan Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Association (PPMA) and Chairman [...]
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05, 2015
Pharma Bureau Seminar on Ethics and Future of Healthcare
medrev 2017-04-26T12:34:54+00:00Pharma Bureau - a representative body of the research based multinational pharmaceutical companies in Pakistan organized a Conference on “Ethics and the Future of Healthcare” recently at the Karachi School for Business & Leadership, Karachi. Leading health care professionals and industry leaders such as Dr. Tipu Sultan, Dr. Shaheen Sheikh, Dr. Ahson Qavi and Dr. Abdul Bari spoke at the conference and participated [...]
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09, 2013
ICCBS – A Centre of Excellence in quality research teaching & training
medrev 2017-04-26T12:35:07+00:00The education is the utmost necessity of life for the success of any nation. Comparing the education system of Pakistan from past to present, it is quite different. Earlier, the education system of Pakistan is not as much strong and stable as now. Currently the education in Pakistan is overseen by the government's ministry of [...]
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09, 2013
Generics Market taking Centre Stage in South East Asia
medrev 2017-04-26T12:35:08+00:00The Southeast Asian pharmaceuticals industry is fast taking up centre stage in the region, and continues to gain attention and demand from both patients and governments. By 2016, the market is forecasted to grow to US$3.9 billion. Marcus Pitt, President Director/CEO, SOHO Group, who will be speaking at the upcoming CPhI Generics Southeast Asia Summit [...]
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09, 2013
9th Health Asia 2013 Int’l Exhibition & Conferences
medrev 2017-04-26T12:35:08+00:009th Health Asia 2013 Int’l Exhibition & Conferences was inaugurated by Zahid Saeed, Former Chairman and Kaiser Waheer, Former Chairman PPMA and MD Indus Pharma, Pakistan Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Association (PPMA) and President & CEO, Medisure Laboratories Pakistan (Pvt) Ltd, Dr. Khursheed Nizam, President, Ecommerce Gateway Pakistan and Foreign delegates were also present in this occasion. There are approximately 100 international [...]
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06, 2012
Pharma Industry on the Tipping point of evolutionary Process
medrev 2017-04-26T12:35:15+00:00Pharmaceutical companies are entangled in promoting functional benefits and need to focus on emotional branding in order to excel in today’s hyper-competitive environment according to Akhtar Mahmud – a branding expert and consultant. He observed this at a two-day workshop jointly organized by Management Excellence Center of IoBM and Marketing Association of Pakistan inKarachi [...]
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06, 2012
Prolonged Issues of Pharmaceutical Sector Discussed
medrev 2017-04-26T12:35:15+00:00A reception was hosted in the honor of new federal minister on National Regularization and Services Ferdous Aashiq Awan and Senator Abdul Haseeb by Pakistan Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Association (PPMA) inKarachi. A large number of high profile persons from pharmaceutical industry, DRAP head Qazi Abdul Saboor and prominent personalities of the metropolis attended the event. Chief [...]
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06, 2012
Vitamins role in healthy life discussed
medrev 2017-04-26T12:35:15+00:00Highlighting the importance of vitamin B in the human body, medical experts at a symposium on Thursday said that its deficiency could greatly affect life and cause illness. In its different forms vitamin B could help people manage their weight and ensure proper functioning of immune and nervous systems, the experts said. They said vitamins played [...]
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05, 2012
Pharmacists vital to healthy healthcare system
medrev 2017-04-26T12:35:17+00:00Pharmacists are an integral part of health delivery system and without them the goal of health for all cannot be achieved said Senator Haseeb Khan while speaking as the Chief Guest at the 1st National Conference on Pharmacy Profession and Scientific Research Poster Competition. The 2-day 1st National Conference on Pharmacy Profession and Scientific [...]
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04, 2012
Recalls Threaten Public Confidence in Vaccines and Immunoglobulins
medrev 2017-04-26T12:35:17+00:00Quality defects and donor tissue history must be more carefully monitored to increase public acceptance if the biologics market is to succeed, according to a new report by business intelligence experts GBI Research. The new report* refers to the emerging pattern emerging in drug recalls over recent years, which shows that vaccines and immunoglobulins, in [...]
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04, 2012
Novel gene therapies for cystic fibrosis continue to shape future global market
medrev 2012-04-25T18:06:04+00:00A groundbreaking gene therapy trial for cystic fibrosis (CF) was announced inUKrecently. This serves as yet another strong indicator that pharmaceutical and biotech companies are increasingly moving into the market with treatments that target the underlying cause of the disease, rather than just the symptoms. This announcement was made by the UK Cystic Fibrosis Gene [...]
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12, 2011
Malaria deaths are down but progress remains fragile
medrev 2017-04-26T12:35:22+00:00Malaria mortality rates have fallen by more than 25% globally since 2000, and by 33% in the WHO African Region, according to the World malaria report 2011, issued today by WHO. This is the result of a significant scaling-up of malaria prevention and control measures in the last decade, including the widespread use of bed [...]
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07, 2011
Speakers emphasized the benefits of combination therapy in hypertension & diabetes
medrev 2017-04-26T12:35:24+00:00Hypertension 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 [...]
