Dow University of Health Sciences (DUHS) introduced Nucleic Acid Testing (NAT) technology for detecting and decreasing the risk of blood transmitted diseases like HIV, HBV, HCV, WNV, Parvovirus B19 and HAV. Vice Chancellor, DUHS, Prof. Dr. Saeed Quraishy inaugurated of first Blood Bank in public sector to adopt Real time PCR based NAT technology. Senior [...]
On World Hepatitis Day 2016, World Health Organisation (WHO) is urging countries to take rapid action to improve knowledge about the disease, and to increase access to testing and treatment services. Today, only 1 in 20 people with viral hepatitis know they have it. And just 1 in 100 with the disease is being treated. [...]
An exclusive interview with Dr. Flavia Indrio, a researcher and a gastroenterologist visited Pakistan to deliver lectures on the role of Probiotics in gut comfort. Q - Infantile colic is a self-limited condition, in your opinion does this condition require treatment? Ans - Infantile colic is a clinical self-limiting condition that deserves treatment for many reasons. The most [...]
The key to future HIV treatment could be hidden right in our own genes. Everyone who becomes infected deploys defense strategies, and some even manage to hold the virus at bay without any therapy at all. This immune system struggle leaves its mark within the pathogen itself - genetic mutations that indicate how the virus reacted to [...]
Every 30 seconds, one person dies from hepatitis in the Asia Pacific region. “This death rate is three times as high as HIV/AIDS,” revealed Dr Saeed Hamid at a public awareness session held to mark World Hepatitis Day at the Aga Khan University Hospital. He was basing his statements on figures released in the Global [...]
Dr. Khalid Mahmood A. Khan is a well known Paediatrician working as an Associate Professor of Paediatrics, National Institute of Child Health (NICH) Karachi. He was recently interviewed by Muhammad Fareed, Publisher & Managing Editor, Medical Review. Following are the excerpts of the Interview. Q – Please tell us something about yourself? Ans [...]
The number of people suffering from various types of hepatitis is on the rise in the country. This is the first time that World Hepatitis Day is being sponsored globally by the World Health Organization (WHO) following the passing of the resolution on Viral Hepatitis at the 63rd World Health Assembly in May [...]
