Humanize Medicine with curriculum change, ensure emphasis on social accountability & Human Dignity
LONDON: We need to humanize medicine with curriculum change putting more emphasis on social accountability and ensuring human dignity. The moral trauma inflicted by Covid19 pandemic had its impact on the medical profession. It resulted in loss of faith in health professionals, health administrators as well as research scientists. We need to produce virtuous physicians to provide healthcare. Some of the attributes of virtuous physicians are that they are soft spoken, quiet and sedate, kind and generous, courageous but not heroic, likes their solitude, non-interfering but helpful, life time learner, matching knowledge and skills, has special interest in moral values and practices ethical medicine.
Khawaja Safdar Medical College Sialkot immediately needs a new teaching hospital
SIALKOT: Political instability in the country has affected the growth and development in many sectors, health sector being no exception. Most of the newly established medical and dental colleges, medical universities in the public sector are facing numerous problems, Kh. Safdar Medical College in Sialkot established in 2008 is just one of them. Established by the PML (N) Government, this institution is named after a veteran Muslim League leader late Kh. Safdar. As was the case with many other newly established medical colleges the local District Headquarters Hospital (Allama Iqbal Memorial Hospital) was affiliated with it as one of the teaching hospital where facilities have also been expanded over the years but still it leaves much to be desired.
UHS Academic Council approves Diploma in Medical Journalism for Editors
LAHORE: The discipline of Medical Journalism in Pakistan is making steady progress and for the first time in Pakistan in a public sector medical university, Diploma in Medical Journalism for Editors was approved by the Academic Council of University of Health Sciences in its 31st meeting held on June 22nd 2022. The outgoing Vice Chancellor of UHS Prof. Javed Akram was the moving spirit behind this academic programme while Prof. Nadia Naseem Focal Person of Certificate in Medical Editing (CME) and Diploma in Medical Journalism (Dip-MJE) and her team also played a vital role.
EHAD is trying to reshape Healthcare Delivery system in Pakistan
KARACHI: EHAD is trying to reshape the healthcare delivery system in Pakistan. It aims to provide quality care following protocol based treatment. EHAD has now established over twenty centers where consultants in various disciplines of medicine look after patients. A new development is the Pakistan American Arthritis Center established at EHAD where the first patient will be provided consultation free. Not only that even patients in other cities and everywhere will be able to benefit from Telemedicine service for treatment of various rheumatic disorders.
Exercise most cost-effective in treatment of depression in patients with coronary heart disease
New research from the Healthcare Outcomes Research Centre and Department of Health Psychology at RCSI indicates that exercise is more cost-effective than psychotherapy or medication in the treatment of depression in individuals with coronary heart disease.
Good quality Sleep is essential for Good Health
Sleep, both in quantity and quality is important for healthy life. Surveys in the USA have found that more than a third of American adults are unable to consistently get a good night’s sleep with millions having trouble falling asleep or staying asleep. In Pakistan, insomnia is a frequent complaint and the pandemic all over the world seems to have made it worse, even for those who were previously good sleepers and for many, the death of a loved one from Covid-19 has resulted in long lasting difficulty falling asleep and staying asleep long enough to feel rested.
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About 81% of Pakistan’s population is
affected by H. pylori-Prof. Saeed Qureshi
DUHS has introduced Otsuka Urea Breath Test System
at Dow Central Lab & Collection Points
Bridge therapy may benefit some children with high-risk Neuroblastoma
Approximately half of children with neuroblastoma—a childhood cancer that develops from immature nerve cells—have a form that indicates a high likelihood of recurrence. New findings published by Wiley online in CANCER, a peer-reviewed journal of the American Cancer Society, show that a bridge therapy between induction and consolidation treatments may benefit patients with this high-risk neuroblastoma.
New heart model to help treat patients with heart failure
Researchers from RCSI University of Medicine and Health Sciences have developed a new lab-based model of a heart and circulatory system that will help test devices to treat patients with one of the most common forms of heart failure.
A randomized controlled trial of bedside ultrasound RUSH process to improve the quality of anesthesia for elderly emergency surgery patients
Objectives: The rapid ultrasound in shock examination (RUSH process) is an assessment of patient’s heart function, volume status, and vasculature, which can help anesthesiologist understand the patient’s physical condition.
Clinical effects of TP-based hyperthermic intraperitoneal chemotherapy (HIPEC) on CD133 and HE4 expression in advanced epithelial ovarian cancer
Objectives: To investigate the clinical effects of TP-based hyperthermic intraperitoneal chemotherapy (HIPEC) on the levels of antigen cluster protein 133 (CD133) and human epididymal secretory protein 4 (HE4) in patients with advanced epithelial ovarian cancer (EOC).
New research highlights power of life long exercise to keep muscles healthy
Lifelong physical activity could protect against age-related loss of muscle mass and function, according to research published in The Journal of Physiology. Individuals aged 68 and above who were physically active throughout their life have healthier ageing muscle that has superior function and is more resistant to fatigue compared to inactive individuals, both young and old.