Microscopic Feature Extraction Method Muhammad Sharif Department of Computer Sciences, COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Wah Cantt, 47040, Pakistan Email: [email protected] Mudassar Raza Department of Computer Sciences, COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Wah Cantt, 47040, Pakistan Email: [email protected] Sajjad Mohsin Department of Computer Sciences, COMS...

BACKGROUND Every year an estimated three million neonates die globally and two hundred thousand of these deaths occur in Pakistan. Majority of these neonates die in rural areas of underdeveloped countries from preventable causes (infections, complications related to low birth weight and prematurity). Similarly about three hundred thousand mother died in 2010 and Pakistan is among ten countries ...

1Sindh AIDS Control Programme, Karachi, Pakistan. 2Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre, Karachi, Pakistan. 3BRIDGE, Karachi, Pakistan. 4TB Control Programme, Karachi, Pakistan. 5Juvenile Jail, Karachi, Pakistan. ABSTRACT Jail inmates may be at increased risk of contracting tuberculosis (TB). We studied 386 detainees (mean age 17.7 years) in Karachi juvenile jail to determine the prevalence of TB...

There is no organized system of postgraduate training for family medicine or general practice in Pakistan. This paper describes the status of primary health care delivery in Pakistan and the growth of family medicine throughout the world. It stresses the need for organized postgraduate training relevant to the needs of primary health care in Pakistan and describes efforts currently under-way in...

62 Improvement in Power Efficiency of Injection Molding Machine by Reduction in Plasticization Losses Muhammad Khan, Mechanical Engineering Department, HITEC University, Taxila, Pakistan Nizar Ullah Khan, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Oakland University, Rochester, MI, USA Muhammad Junaid Aziz, Mechanical Engineering Department, University of Engineering & Technology, Taxila, Pakistan H...

Fahad Hanif Khan1*, Kamal Muhammad Yousuf2 and Mishraz Shaikh3 1Department of General Surgery, Civil Hospital, Baba-e-Urdu Road, Karachi, Pakistan 2Department of Vascular Surgery, Liaquat National Hospital, Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan 3Department of General Surgery, Liaquat National Hospital, Karachi, Pakistan *Corresponding author: Fahad Hanif Khan, Department of General Surgery, Civil Hospital, ...

BACKGROUND Healthcare research is a neglected discipline in Pakistan and research related to esophageal cancer (ranks 9th in Pakistani males and 5th in females) is no exception in this regard. Particularly, there are no data available to delineate the overall status of esophageal cancer epidemiological studies in Pakistan. This study describes the first ever effort to make a systematic quantifi...

Open Access The tremendous advancement in medical research in USA owes much to the Flexner's report in 1910 which suggested making the scientific research an essential component of medical curriculum. 1 National Institute of Health (NIH) of the United States during 1946-50, put the biomedical research as its top priority and faculty was encouraged to implant the " virus of curiosity and inquiry...

1 National AIDS Control Programme, National Institute of Health, Islamabad, Pakistan (Correspondence to F. Mansoor: [email protected]). 2Health Services Academy, Islamabad, Pakistan. 3 WHO National Surveillance; 5WHO Polio Eradication Initiative, World Health Organization, Islamabad, Pakistan. 4Expanded Programme for Immunization, Islamabad, Pakistan. ABSTRACT We used acute flaccid p...