1 Ethics Review Board, Médecins Sans Frontières, Geneva, Switzerland, 2 University of Toronto Joint Centre for Bioethics, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, 3 Unit of Epidemiology and Disease Control, Department of Public Health, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium, 4 Bioethics and Health Law Programme at the Center for the AIDS Programme of Research in South Africa (CAPRISA), Durban, KwaZu...

Karachi: Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre Karachi organized a three day Endocrine Surgical Course from June 17-19th 2013. Prof. Woong Youn Chung, Professor of Surgery and Director of Thyroid Cancer Clinic at Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul Korea was the invited guest speaker and Master Trainer. This 3-Day interactive Course with live demonstration of various surgical techniques i...

Salimuzzaman Siddiqui*. Bina S. Siddiqui, and Sabira Begum H. E. J. Research Institute of Chemistry, University of Karachi, Karachi-32, Pakistan Z. Naturforsch. 41b, 1583-1586 (1986); received March 20, 1985/July 20, 1986 Harmaline, Aminoharmaline, Harmalol, N-Benzenesulfonyltetrahydroharmine In the course of pharmaco-chemical studies in the structure and activity relationship in har­ maline se...

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background: blindness due to cataract is a major and important problem in pakistan. the problem is expected to increase in future due to increase in tobacco smoking. the aim of study was to look for the mechanism associated with metal deposition and its effect on antioxidant enzymes in lens of smokers in karachi, pakistan. methods: 20 cataract patients were randomly selected from out patient de...

Background: Blindness due to cataract is a major and important problem in Pakistan. The problem is expected to increase in future due to increase in tobacco smoking. The aim of study was to look for the mechanism associated with metal deposition and its effect on antioxidant enzymes in lens of smokers in Karachi, Pakistan. Methods: 20 cataract patients were randomly selected from Out Patient De...

Objective: To find out the effect of physical activities and obesity among Ramadan fasting hypertensive patients of Karachi. Methods: 117 hypertensive patients were selected conveniently from the staff and faculty members of Dow University and other locations of Karachi. The inclusion criterion was the hypertensive patients with at least 20 days of fasting. The investigators visited three times...

The effect of automobile pollution was determined on chlorophyll content of four different tree species viz. Azadirachta indica L., Conocarpus erectus L., Guiacum officinale L.and Eucalyptus sp. growing along the roads of the city.  Significant changes in the level of chlorophyll “a”, chlorophyll “b” and total chlorophyll “a+b” were found in the leaves of fou...