Pakistan to host 5^th Medical Journals Conference  in 2010
Medical Editors conference in Bahrain discusses important issues to improve quality and standard of biomedical journals
 

BAHRAIN: The Fourth Eastern Mediterranean Medical Journals conference jointly organized by Bahrain Medical Society, WHO EMRO, Ministry of Health Bahrain and Eastern Mediterranean Association of Medical Editors (EMAME) attracted over one hundred seventy delegates from all over the region besides guest speakers from Europe. It provided a rare opportunity to the medical journal editors for regional networking which will help in improving the quality and standard of biomedical journals being published from this region.

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EMAME Executive for
the Year 2008-2010
 

BAHRAIN:  Dr. Ahmad Jamal from Bahrain formally took over as the President of Eastern Mediterranean Association of Medial Editors (EMAME) during the GB meeting at 4^th Regional Conference of Medical Journals held here from November 5-7^th 2008. The names of the other office bearers who were elected through secret electronic ballot were also announced in the GB meeting. As per results those elected are as under:

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Prof. Amer Aziz’s address during BCPS-CPSP Joint Conference
No politician, bureaucrat, government functionary should be provided
treatment abroad on State Expense
 

DHAKA: (BANGLADESH):  West is not always the best. Time has come that we say goodbye to foreign advisors and experts and develop, plan our own policies if we wish to provide quality healthcare to our people. Government should substantially increase health allocations and no politician, bureaucrat or any other government functionary should be provided treatment abroad on state expense. They all must get treatment within the country. If any one of them insists on getting treatment overseas, they must pay from their own pocket.

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Int. conference on Family Medicine
Family Physicians are providing most cost effective quality healthcare -
Prof. Zafrullah Chaudhry
 

KARACHI: Family Physicians are providing most cost effective health care in the country and there is a need for more recognized centers for training in FCPS in Family Medicine.This was stated by Prof. Zafrullah Chaudhry President of College of Physicians and Surgeons Pakistan. He was speaking at the inaugural session of the Third International Family Medicine Conference held at Aga Khan University recently.

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First Pan Asian-Pacific ESC Symposium
Experts discuss different options of moving towards a Global approach to management of cardiovascular diseases
 

SHANGHAI (CHINA):  Cardiovascular diseases have become much more prevalent in Asia Pacific countries in general and in China and India in particular as compared to all other economically developed countries in the world put together. This is stated to be the result of a rising prevalence of diabetes, hypertension and obesity that is linked to the rapid adoption of an increasingly westernized diet and lifestyle among the Asia Pacific populations. A faculty of leading clinicians-scientists in the discipline of cardiovascular medicine, neurology and endocrinology from the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) and Asia met here at the First Pan Asian-Pacific Symposium to discuss the emerging cardiovascular epidemic.

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Renovated building of NIDE at Ojha Campus commissioned
 State of the Art Diabetic Centre NIDE will provide quality care for diabetics - Prof. Masood Hameed Khan
 

KARACHI, Diabetes is a global problem and it is estimated that more than six million people in the country are suffering from diabetes and the number is expected to reach 11.6 million by 2025. Due to tremendous increase in cases of diabetes, there is a need to spread awareness and set up more clinics and health facilities for the treatment of the disease both in urban and rural areas of the country.

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Book Review
Plain X-Ray Abdomen in Emergency
-an excellent handbook for
medical students and young doctors

KARACHI: Excellence in clinical skills is of vital importance in making correct diagnosis. There can be no substitute to good history taking and comprehensive physical examination. Once provisional diagnosis has been made only then relevant radiological and laboratory investigations should be ordered which will help in confirming the diagnosis and initiating appropriate treatment.  This is the message which the authors of “Plain X-Ray Abdomen in Emergency” have tried to convey through this 205-page book.

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MULTAN: Prof. Muhammad Saeed, Head of the Dental Section at Nishtar Medical College along with Prof. Arastu Hyder and Dr. Nadeem Abbasi chaired the first scientific session during the  ONCO-2008 the 14th Cancer Congress organized by Pakistan Society of Clinical Oncology in collaboration with Cancer Society of Multan from October 10-12th 2008.  Dr. Raza Hussain was the first speaker who pointed out that they at Shaukat Khanum Cancer Hospital see four hundred cases of small cell carcinoma of oral cavity every year that are previously untreated.

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Issues for Debate
Psycho trauma and Prof. Zaki Hassan Memorial Psychiatric Conference:
A communication from Prof. Mowadat H. Rana
and response from the Chief Editor
 

Thank you very much for your elaborate coverage of the Karwan-e-Hayat Conference organized in the memory of Late Prof Zaki Hassan. I have always been touched and impressed by your sensitivity towards mental health as a discipline in Pakistan. Your paper has consistently pursued themes related to this often ignored medical discipline. May I take this opportunity to pay rich tributes to you and indeed through this to Dr.  Maqbool H Jaffary for your efforts to promote medical journalism and the cause of mental health in Pakistan.

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KARACHI: Dr. (Col.) S. K. Parashar, former President of Indian Cardiac Society was the guest speaker at a series of meetings organized by M/s Highnoon laboratories at Islamabad, Lahore and Karachi recently. He discussed in detail the innovations in optimizing dual antiplatlet therapy and the management of Cardiovascular diseases. It was well attended by cardiologist and physicians of these cities. The meeting at Karachi was chaired by Prof. Azhar Masood Faruqui and Prof. M. Ishaq.

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Promotion of biomedical, professional ethics
It is difficult to be a whistle
blower from the medical
profession - Dr. Amar Jesani
 

KARACHI: When we were medical students, no body ever taught us medical ethics. Even these days few lectures on medical ethics are included in forensic medicine in some of the medical schools. But since the students are not examined in this subject, they do not take it seriously. Though I am a medical graduate but since I do not practice, many people think I am not a doctor. Upholding professional ethics and promotion of biomedical ethics is not an easy task and it is difficult to be a whistle blower from the medical profession.

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Early treatment with interferon
beta-1b can delay progression
to multiple sclerosis

New data confirms that early initiation of interferon beta-1b(Betaferon) treatment in patients with a first event suggestive of multiple sclerosis (MS) significantly delays the onset of clinically-definite MS (CDMS) by 37 percent (p=0.003) and McDonald MS by 45 percent (p<0.0001) over five years compared to delayed treatment. The results confirm a continued benefit of initiating treatment with Betaferon shortly after the first event.

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