BACKGROUND: Health of mother and child is a major concern for Pakistan. Due to low literacy, poverty and lack of awareness, malnutrition is alarmingly common. OBJECTIVE: The objective is to evaluate ... Read More
INTRODUCTION: Body mass index (BMI) is the important indicator of general health. Those with high BMI are at risk of many diseases, such as diabetes mellitus, heart diseases, high blood pressure and ... Read More
INTRODUCTION: Ionizing radiation exposure may induce radiation sickness with critical weight loss. However, Silymarin administration showed to mitigate radiation induced weight loss and organ damage. ... Read More
INTRODUCTION: Oral healthcare is a broad term that includes well-being of teeth, gums and broader oral environment. It is considered as a window to personal, economic and social development of indiv ... Read More
BACKGROUND: It is estimated that during last 12 months 6.7 million adults used drug. Route of administration of opioids has important consequences on user’s health outcomes as well as risk of depend ... Read More
BACKGROUND: Premenstrual syndrome (PMS) is a recurrent cyclic disorder of cyclical changes in the sexual hormones. It is characterized by emotional, mental and physical symptoms, however pathophysio ... Read More
OBJECTIVE: To determine the frequency of Helicobacter pylori infection (detected by Gastric Biopsy culture and histopathology) in children presenting with recurrent abdominal pain. DURATION: Six mon ... Read More
INTRODUCTION: Green tea (GT) contains more than 4000 biologically active compounds of which polyphenols are important. Flavonoids are the most important of polyphenols family. Flavonoids contain cat ... Read More
INTRODUCTION: Functions of almost all body cells and organs are influenced by thyroid hormones; therefore malfunction of thyroid gland may cause serious clinical problems affecting major organs like ... Read More
INTRODUCTION: Minimal hepatic encephalopathy is a neuro-cognitive disorder which happens in an epidemic percentage in patients with cirrhosis of liver. The computerized inhibitory control test (ICT) ... Read More
INTRODUCTION: Normal blood pressure has a certain normal range and therefore it is common to see people having blood pressure towards lower range but considering it as “low blood pressure”. Among th ... Read More
BACKGROUND: Assessment of the oral health is very important to organize the community based programs which is a key of promoting the health system and this includes assessment of knowledge, attitude ... Read More
INTRODUCTION: Medicine budget allocation in health facilities usually focus on past funding levels and the efficiency of health services delivery. Despite the level of allocation to hospitals, there ... Read More
INTRODUCTION: The aim was to measure and analyze the growth of academic literature, authors’ productivity, the affiliation of authors with Institute and geographic locations published in Journal of ... Read More
The importance of communication by faculty member while teaching undergraduates cannot be overemphasized however its impact upon students in not well known. This study aims to assess medical student ... Read More
INTRODUCTION: Clove is used as spice commonly and exerts beneficial effects in different human pathologies especially diabetes and infectious diseases discovered in recent times. OBJECTIVE: Current ... Read More
INTRODUCTION: Nosocomial infection, also called hospital acquired infection occur in patient who are admitted in Hospital for a long or short period of time for some therapeutic or diagnostic purpose ... Read More
OBJECTIVE: To determine the frequency of betel nut addiction in pregnant anaemic women and to find out its association with adverse pregnancy outcome. METHODOLOGY: This observational study was condu ... Read More
INTRODUCTION: The dual plate osteosynthesis technique for fixation of inter-condylar distal humerus fracture is now considered an accepted treatment modality. It provides a rigid fixation of fracture ... Read More
OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the result of open reduction and internal fixation in tibial plateau fractures in accordance with Rasmussen’s criteria of knee pain, range of motion and stability. METHODS: Ni ... Read More
BACKGROUND: Being a natural phenomenon, the knowledge learned by students is quickly forgotten. However, various factors are pertinent for one’s memory and knowledge retention ability. This ability i ... Read More
OBJECTIVES: The proportion of adolescents population has grown rapidly since last decade. Pakistan is among those countries having largest youth population in the world. These adolescents have some ... Read More
OBJECTIVE: This study aims to determine the frequency of organophosphate poisoning outcomes at tertiary care hospital at Nawabshah. DESIGN: Descriptive Study. SETTING: Intensive Care Unit at People ... Read More
BACKGROUND: Mean platelet volume (MPV), platelet distribution width (PDW) and P-LCR (platelet large cell ratio) are known platelet volume indices (PVI). Currently, the platelet volume indices (PVI) ... Read More
OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the hemostatic abnormalities in patients with cirrhosis and their relation with severity of liver dysfunction as assessed by Child Pugh Score. BACKGROUND: Important role is pl ... Read More
AIM AND OBJECTIVE: To determine the association of primary headache with age, sex, obesity and hypertension among patients received at medical Out-patient-department of Liaquat University Hospital, ... Read More
BACKGROUND: Diabetes Mellitus is a global problem caused by the deficiency of Insulin secretion either absolute or relative. Treatment options are Insulin and oral glucose lowering drugs. Current stu ... Read More
BACKGROUND: Ninety-five millions of Pakistan's 161 million people, roughly 60% of Pakistan’s population live in malaria endemic regions. Despite a well-established malaria control programme, 500,000 ... Read More
OBJECTIVE: The pre-eclampsia is most common hypertensive and life threatening disorder during pregnancy. Abnormal placenta may be involved in the pathogenesis of pre-eclampsia. Co-Enzyme Q10 and tra ... Read More
BACKGROUND: Anemia is seen in a large proportion of the population especially in developing countries. It poses a major challenge to improving the health indices especially in the female and pediatr ... Read More
BACKGROUND: Sputum smear microscopy is the most useful tool used for the screening of presumptive tuberculosis cases. Conventionally Ziehl-Neelsen (ZN) based staining is used to microscopically scree ... Read More
Prescribing medicines without knowing patient’s chronic illnesses, current medications, drug allergies is risky. It may lead to enormous patient suffering in the form of iatrogenic health damage and ... Read More
INTRODUCTION: Stress has been recognized as serious health problem among nurses. It declines the quality and standard of living with a great deterrence in health of its victims. OBJECTIVES: To deter ... Read More
BACKGROUND: Pre eclampsia is the commonest obstetrical complication in pregnant women. The etiology of pre eclampsia has yet not been clearly understood. It has a worldwide prevalence of 2–10% of pr ... Read More
OBJECTIVES: Pre-eclampsia is hypertensive and multi-system related disorder of pregnancy. It has frequently labeled as “disease of theories”. 5- 10% of pregnancies complicated due to pre-eclampsia a ... Read More
INTRODUCTION: Myeloid malignancies are clonal disorders of hematopoietic stem/precursor cells. The criteria for the diagnosis of acute myeloid leukemia (AML) are based on morphological cytogenetic an ... Read More
INTRODUCTION: Diabetes Mellitus, a chronic disease is usually associated and linked to many other conditions and complications. Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD); a life threatening progr ... Read More
OBJECTIVE: To determine the diagnostic accuracy of curved Multiplanar reformat of multidetector CT scan in visualizing zone of transition in patients with intestinal obstruction. SETTING: Radiology ... Read More
BACKGROUND: The common work related musculoskeletal disorders (WRMDs) among medical profession are pain in neck, elbow, shoulder wrist and back. Sonographers are more vulnerable to develop WRMDs as ... Read More
OBJECTIVE: To document the demographical evaluation of laparoscopic versus open appendectomy at tertiary care teaching hospital. PATIENTS AND METHODS: This is comparative study was carried out in Su ... Read More
OBJECTIVE: To determine the benefits of elective splenectomy in selected patients with thalassemia major. STUDY DESIGN: Prospective descriptive study. PLACE OF STUDY: Liaquat University Hospital Ja ... Read More
OBJECTIVES: To determine the causes of maxillofacial injuries in patients reporting at Dental outpatient department of Liaquat University Hospital Hyderabad. METHODOLOGY: This descriptive study was ... Read More
INTRODUCTION: It is well acknowledged that health workers experience higher level of stress and stress related health problems than other occupational groups. Thus, measuring physician stress and un ... Read More
The amount of waste has been greatly increased due to population growth and industry development, which has an undeniable effect on human health and the environment. The way of handling the situation ... Read More
Since the civilization & before that historically human settlement had been always near to availability of water resources that may be rivers, wells, springs and other sources, without water human ... Read More
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