Content Posted in 2014
360-degree evaluation of residents on Communication & Interpersonal Skills; Inter-rater variation in judgment, Muhammad Tariq
A 27-year-old man with hyperpigmented patches at upper back and limbs. Primary localized cutaneous amyloidosis, Nausheen Yaqoob, Shahid Pervez, Aisha Memon, and Naseema Kapadia
A 60-year-old woman with history of hoarseness and dysphagia. Laryngeal liposarcoma, Nausheen Yaqoob, Shahid Pervez, and Ishtiaq Ahmed
Abdominal pain with rigidity secondary to the anti-emetic drug metoclopramide, Nadeem Ullah Khan and Junaid A. Razzak
Academic misconduct among students in medical colleges of Karachi, Kamran Hafeez
Acanthamoeba and bacteria produce antimicrobials to target their counterpart, Junaid Iqbal, Ruqaiyyah Siddiqui, and Naveed Ahmed Khan
Acanthamoeba can propagate on thermophilic Sulfolobus spp., Iqbal J, Siddiqui R, and Khan NA
A case of intramural pregnancy: the importance of differentiation from fibroid uterus, S. A. Aziz, Shahid Pervez, S Khan, Naila Kayani, and M H. Rahbar
A case report: Giant cystic parathyroid adenoma presenting with parathyroid crisis after Vitamin D replacement, Ali Asghar, Mubasher Ikram, and Najmul Islam
Access to person-centered care: a perspective on status, barriers, opportunities and challenges from the Eastern Mediterranean Region, Waris Qidwai, Tabinda Ashfaq, Tawfik A M Khoja, Salman Rawaf, Nabil Yasin Al Kurashi, and Faisal Alnasir
A change of IL-2 and IL-4 production in patients with Helicobactor pylori infection, X. G. Fan, Javed Yakoob, X. J. Fan, and P. W. N. Keeling
A child an hour: burden of injury deaths among children under 5 in Pakistan., Junaid A. Razzak, Uzma R. Khan, Nukhba Zia, and Iqbal Azam
A comparative study of faculty and students’ perception about aptitude of professionalism in the admission process of medical college, Abdul Waheed Sheikh
A Comparison of Dissection-method and Diathermy Tonsillectomies, Muneeb Ahmed, Adil Abbas Khan, Tanya Siddiqi, Mubasher Ikram, and M Yousuf Mian
A comparison of WHO guidelines issued in 1997 and 2009 for dengue fever - single centre experience., Munawar Khursheed, Uzma R. Khan, Kiran Ejaz, Jabeen Fayyaz, Irum Qamar, and J. Razzak
A comprehensive plan to implement evidence based medicine curriculum in undergraduate program, Muhammad Faisal Rahim, Absar Ali, and Zubairuddin Bhatti
Acridine Orange for malaria diagnosis: Its diagnostic performance, its promotion and implementation in Tanzania, and the implications for malaria control, J. Keiser, J. Utzinger, Zul Premji, Y. Yamagata, and B.H. Singer
Acute adenolymphangitis due to bancroftian filariasis in Rufiji district, south east Tanzania, D.B. Gasarasi, Zul Premji, P.G.M. Mujinja, and R. Mpembeni
Acute haemolysis in childhood falciparum malaria, H. Ekvall, P. Arese, F. Turrini, K. Ayi, F. Mannu, Zul Premji, and A. Bjorkman
Acute lymphoblastic leukemia in a child with Fanconi’s anemia, Naureen Mushtaq, Rabia Wali, Zehra Fadoo, and Ali Faisal Saleem
Acute management of ST-elevation myocardial infarction in a tertiary hospital in Kenya: are we complying with practice guidelines?, Benjamin Wachira, Andrew Owuor, and Harun Otieno
Acute mesenteric ischaemia with infective endocarditis: is there a role for anticoagulation?, Muhammad Waqas, Shahan Waheed, Zishan Haider, and Amir Hafeez Shariff
Acute stroke secondary to internal carotid artery pseudoaneurysm: MRI findingsand treatment with endovascularcoiling, Mohammad Wasay, Alper Dai, Neeraj Dubey, and Saadat Kamran
Addressing health care needs of communities? A call for revamping medical education curriculum, Waris Qidwai
A descriptive study to find possible correlation between MRI findings of pituitary gland and serum prolactin level, Muhammad Azeemuddin, Rohana Naqi, and Mohammad Wasay
Adherence to artemether/lumefantrine treatment in children under real-life situations in rural Tanzania, D.O. Simba, D. Kakoko, G. Tomson, Zul Premji, M. Petzold, M. Mahindi, and L.L. Gustafsson
Advances in information and communication technology (ICT): issues, challenges and opportunities for health care professionals, Waris Qidwai
Adverse events monitoring: A step towards making AKUH a safe place for patients, Gulzar Lakhani
A Dynamical Study of Risk Factors in Intracerebral Hemorrhage using Multivariate Approach, Afaq Ahmed Siddiqui, Junaid S. Siddiqui, Mohammad Wasay, S. Iqbal Azam, and Asif Ahmed
Aetiology of acute febrile episodes in children attending Korogwe District Hospital in north-eastern Tanzania, C. Mahende, B. Ngasala, J. Lusingu, A. Butichi, P. Lushino, M. Lemnge, and Zul Premji
Ageing population: status, challenges and opportunities for health care providers in Pakistan, Waris Qidwa
Age related clinical manifestation of acute bacterial meningitis in children, Jabeen Fayyaz, Arshalooz Rehman, Akhter Hamid, Munawar Khursheed, Nukhbha Zia, and Asher Feroze
Age, temperature, and parasitaemia predict chloroquine treatment failure and anaemia in children with uncomplicated Plasmodium falciparum malaria, D.H. Hamer, W.B. MacLeod, E. Addo-Yobo, C.P Duggan, B. Estrella, W.W. Fawzi, J.K. Konde-Lule, V. Mwanakasale, Zul Premji, F. Sempertegui, F.P. Ssengooba, K. Yeboah-Antwi, and J.L. Simon
Airways and cardiovascular inhibitory effects of Olea europea and Terminalia bellerica aqueous fractions, Arif-ullah Khan and Anwar Hassan Gilani
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Allostasis: The missing link in prevention of NCDs, Mowadat Hussain Rana
Allred scoring for ER reporting and it's impact in clearly distinguishing ER negative from ER positive breast cancers, Asim Qureshi and Shahid Pervez
Almonds Inhibit Dyslipidemia and Vascular Dysfunction in Rats through Multiple Pathways, Humaira Jamshed and Anwar Hassan Gilani
A multi-institutional survey on perceptions about clinical application of Anatomy, Nazish Fatima
Anaemia and Plasmodium falciparum infections among young children in an holoendemic area, Bagamoyo, Tanzania, Zul Premji, Y. Hamisi, C. Shiff, J. Minjas, P. Lubega, and C. Makwaya
Anaesthetic management of tracheal reconstruction using Jet Ventilation, Khalid, Samad; Faisal Shamim; Muhammad Sohail Awan; and Muhammad Qamarul Hoda
Analgesic, anti-inflammatory and anti-platelet activities of the methanolic extract of Acacia modesta leaves, Ishfaq A. Bukhari, Rafeeq A. Khan, Anwar Hassan Gilani, Sagheer Ahmed, and Sheikh Arshad Saeed
Analysis of factors affecting ventriculoperitoneal shunt survival in pediatric patients., Farid Khan, Muhammad Shahzad Shamim, Abdul Rehman, and Muhammad Ehsan Bari
An analysis of anemia and child mortality, B.J. Brabin, Zul Premji, and F. Verhoeff
Anaphylaxis: incidence, presentation, causes and outcome in patients in a tertiary care hospital in Karachi, Pakistan, Nadeem Ullah Khan, Nishi Shakeel, Aamir Makda, Ammar Shaheen Mallick, Maria Ali Memon, Sohaib Haider Hashm, Uzma R. Khan, and Juniad A. Razzak
Anatomical variations of nose and para-nasal sinuses; CT scan review, Mohammad Adeel, Muhammad Shaheryar Ahmed Rajput, Shabbir Akhter, Mubasher Ikram, Asif Arain, and Yasir Jameel Khattak
Angiokeratoma of tongue:a series of 14 cases, Nausheen Yaqoob, Aamir Ahsan, Zubair Ahmed, Akhter Husain, Rashid Ahmed, Naila Kayani, Shahid Pervez, and Sheema Hassan
An innovation in the undergraduate medical curriculum: integrating a course on health economics longitudinally, Ashar Malik
An International Survey on Advanced Practice Nursing Education, Practice, and Regulation, Joyce Pulcini, Monika Jelic, Raisa B. Gul, and Alice Yuen Loke
An in vivo study on the diuretic activity of Holarrhena antidysenterica, Aslam Khan, Samra Bashir, and Anwar Hassan Gilani
Anion gap among patients of multiple myeloma and normal individuals, Shireen Mansoor, Imran Siddiqui, Salman Adil, Ghulam Nabi Kakepoto, Zafar Fatmi, and Farooq Ghani
An observational study of anaesthesia and surgical time in elective caesarean section: spinal compared with general anaesthesia, S Ismail and A Huda
An office-based serological test for detection of current Helicobacter pylori infection: is it useful?, Khalid Mumtaz, Shahab Abid, Javed Yakoob, Zaigham Abbas, Saeed Hamid, Muhammad Islam, Hasnain A. Shah, and Wasim Jafri
A non-randomized study of safety and efficacy of heparin for DVT prophylaxis in intracerebral haemorrhage, Mohammad Wasay, Saqibuddin Khan, Khawaja S. Zaki, Bhojo A. Khealani, Ayeesha Kamal, Iqbal Azam, and Ismail A. Khatri
An overview of interventions to improve compliance with appointment keeping for medical services, William Macharia, Gladys Leon, Brian Rowe, Barbara J. Stephenson, and R. Brian Haynes
An overview of the current situation of Histopathology Fellowship training in Pakistan, Saroona Haroon
An overview of the predictors of depression among adult Pakistani women, Aysha Zahidie and Tanzil Jamali
Antenatal care and the occurrence of Low Birth Weight delivery among women in remote mountainous region of Chitral, Pakistan, Z. Ahmed, S. Khoja, and Suha S. Tirmizi
Anthracycline-induced cardiotoxicity: prospective cohort study from Pakistan, Abdul Sattar Shaikh, Ali Faisal Saleem, Shazia Samad Mohsin, Muhammad Matloob Alam, and Mehnaz Atiq Ahmed
Anti-Acanthamoebic properties of resveratrol and demethoxycurcumin, Yousuf Aqeel, Junaid Iqbal, Ruqaiyyah Siddiqui, Anwar Hassan Gilani, and Naveed Ahmed Khan
Antibacterial, antifungal, antispasmodic and Ca++ antagonist effects of Caesalpinia bonducella, Hidayat -Ullah Khanab, Irshad Ali, Arif -Ullah Khan, Rubina Nazb, and Anwar Hassan Gilani
Anti-diarrheal activity of methanolic extract of Tephrosia purpurea., Janbaz KH and Anwar Hassan Gilani
Antidiarrheal and antispasmodic activities of Salvia officinalis are mediated through activation of K+ channels, Anwar Hassan Gilani
Antidiarrheal and antispasmodic activities of Vitex negundo are mediated through calcium channel blockade, Munasib Khan, Abdul Jabbar Shah, and Anwar Gilani
Antidiarrheal, antisecretory, and bronchodilatory activities of Hypericum perforatum., Anwar Hassan Gilani
Antifungal and antispasmodic activities of the extracts of Euphorbia granulata, Irshad Ahmad, Arif -Ullah Khan, Bashir Ahmad Chaudhary, Khalid Hussain Janbaz, Muhammad Uzair, Muhammad Akhtar, and Anwar Hassan Gilani
Anti-Helicobacter pylori activity and inhibition of Helicobacter pylori-induced release of IL-8 in AGS cells by plant extracts, Javed Yakoob, Zaigham Abbas, Rustam Khan, Muhammad Waqas Usman, Saeed Hamid, Safia Awan, Kanza Shamim, Syed Faisal Zaidi, Toshiro Sugiyama, and Wasim Jafri
Antioxidant, Antimicrobial Properties and Phenolics of Different Solvent Extracts from Bark, Leaves and Seeds of Pongamia pinnata (L.) Pierre, Zahid Iqbal Sajid, Farooq Anwar, Ghulam Shabir, Ghulam Rasul, Khalid M. Alkharfy, and Anwar Gilani
Antioxidant, Antimicrobial Properties and Phenolics of Different Solvent Extracts from Bark, Leaves and Seeds of Pongamia pinnata (L.) Pierre, Zahid Iqbal Sajid, Farooq Anwar, Ghulam Shabir, Ghulam Rasul, Khalid M. Alkharfy, and Anwar Gilani
Antipyretic and Anticonvulsant Activity of Polygonatum verticillatum: Comparison of Rhizomes and Aerial Parts, Haroon Khan, Muhammad Saeed, Anwarul Hassan Gilani, Naveed Muhammad, Ikram-ul Haq, Najeeb-ur Rehman, and Ashhad Haleem
Antipyretic, parasitologic, and immunologic effects of combining sulfadoxine/pyrimethamine with chloroquine or paracetamol for treating uncomplicated Plasmodium falciparum malaria, E. Hugosson, D. Tarimo, M. Troye-Blomberg, S.M. Montgomery, Zul Premji, and A. Bjorkman
Antisecretory and analgesic activities of Terminalia bellerica, Arif-ullah Khan and Anwar Hassan Gilani
Antispasmodic and antidiarrheal activity of rhizomes of Polygonatum verticillatum maneuvered predominately through activation of K+ channels: components identification through TLC, Haroon Khan, Muhammad Saeed, Anwarul Hassan Gilani, Naveed Muhammad, Najeeb ur Rehman, Malik Hassan Mehmood, and Nadeem Ashraf
Antispasmodic and Ca++ antagonist potential of marrubiin, a labdane type diterpene from Phlomis bracteosa., Anwar Hassan Gilani
An unusual combination of extra-adrenal pheochromocytoma and arteriovenous malformation of the ureter in a young adult., Ali Khawaja, Wajahat Aziz, Syed Muhammad Nazim, and Farhat Abbas
A Plant Genus Rich in Bioactives for Pharmaceuticals, Gulzar Muhammad, Muhammad Ajaz Hussain, Farooq Anwar, Muhammad Ashraf, and Anwar Hassan Gilani
A point mutation in codon 76 of pfcrt of P. falciparum is positively selected for by chloroquine treatment in Tanzania, A.G. Schneider, Zul Premji, I. Felger, T. Smith, S. Abdulla, H.-P. Beck, and H. Mshinda
A Potential Source of High-Value Components for Functional Foods and Nutraceuticals- A Review., Najla Gooda Sahib, Farooq Anwar, Anwar Hassan Gilani, Azizah Abdul Hamid, Nazamid Saari, and Khalid M. Alkharfy
A process approach in improving grade VIII students' writing skills in a government school of District Kech Turbat, Abid Hussain
A prospective review of acute coronary syndromes in an urban hospital in sub-Saharan Africa, J. Shavadia, G. Yonga, and H. Otieno
Aqueous Extract of Nigella sativa Seeds Suppresses Testicular Steroidogenesis in Mice Leydig Cells in vitro., 5SHEIKH A. SAEED, NAHEED ANWAR, QAISER JABEEN, and Anwar Hassan Gilani
A randomized control trial to assess the effect of aketamineinfusion on tourniquet hypertension during General anaesthesia in patients undergoing upper and lower limb surgery, Joyce Atieno Ongaya
A rapid questionnaire assessment of environmental exposures to pregnant women in the INTERGROWTH-21st Project, B Eskenazi, A Bradman, D Finkton, M Purwar, J A. Noble, R Pang, O Burnham, L Cheikh Ismail, F Farhi, F C. Barros, A Lambert, A T. Papageorghiou, M Carvalho, Y A. Jaffer, E Bertino, M G. Gravett, D G. Altman, E O. Ohuma, S H. Kennedy, Z A. Bhutta, and J Villar
Are we ready for a person-centered care model for patient-physician consultation? A survey from family physicians and their patients of East Mediterranean Region, Waris Qidwai, Kashmira Nanji, Tawfik Khoja, Salman Rawaf, Nabil Yasin Al Kurashi, Faisal Alnasir, Mohammed Ali Al Shafaee, Mariam Al Shetti, Muntazar Bashir, Nagwa Eid Sobhy Saad, Sanaa Alkaisi, and Wafa Halasa
Asbestos risk assessment in Pakistan: current scenario and way forward, A Ahmed Khan, Ahmed Ahmed Nafees, and Zafar Fatmi
Asian Cerebral venous thrombosis registry: study protocolV, Mohammad Wasay, Ayeesha Kamal, and Bhojo Khealani
A Silent Storm: Hepatitis C in Pakistan, Noureen Jiwani and Raisa B. Gul
A Simple Assay to Screen Antimicrobial Compounds Potentiating the Activity of Current Antibiotics, Junaid Iqbal, Ruqaiyyah Siddiqui, Shahana Urooj Kazmi, and Naveed Ahmed Khan
Aspergillosis of the Sphenoid Sinus with the Involvement of the Clivus, Mubasher Ikram, S.S.M. Hussain, and R Ahmad
Assessment of competence for caesarean section with global rating scale, Rahat Najam Qureshi and Syeda Kauser Ali
Assessment of the level of knowledge and the perceived consequences of medical negligence among fresh medical graduates of a private medical university in Karachi, Pakistan, Sayeeda Amber Sayed
Assessments in medical education in this part of the world leaves a lot to be desired, Abdul Majeed Chaudhry
Assessment, surgeon, and society, John Norcini and Jamsheer J Talati
Association between elevated third trimester maternal haemoglobin and neonatal gestational age adjusted birth weight, Bob Otieno Achila
Association of alkaline phosphatase with acute myocardial infarction in a population with high prevalence of hypovitaminosis D., Iqbal MP, Mehboobali N, and Tareen AK
Association of Body Iron Status with the Risk of Premature Acute Myocardial Infarction in a Pakistani Population, Mohammadl Perwaiz Iqbal, Naseema Mehbooi Ali, Asal Khan Tareen, Mohsin Yakub, Saleeml Perwaizl Iqbal, Khalida Iqbal, and Ghulam Haider
Association of Iron Deficiency Anaemia in children of 1-2 years of age with low birth weight, recurrent Diarrhoea or recurrent Respiratory Tract Infection - a myth or fact?, Niloufer Sultan Ali and Rukhsana Wamiq Zuberi
Assuming patient safety in curriculum: a purpose not always evident, Janet Grant
A Study on the Geophylogeny of Clinical and Environmental Vibrio cholerae in Kenya, J. Kiiru, A. Mutreja, A. A. Mohamed, R. W. Kimani, J. Mwituria, R. O. Sanaya, J. Muyodi, G. Revathi, J. Parkhill, N. Thomson, G. Dougan, and S. Kariuki
A successful model of Road Traffic Injury surveillance in a developing country: process and lessons learnt., Junaid Abdul Razzak, Muhammad Shahzad Shamim, Amber Mehmood, Syed Ameer Hussain, Mir Shabbar Ali, and Rashid Jooma
Asymmetry of lateral lamella of the cribriform plate: a software-based analysis of coronal computed tomography and its clinical relevance in endoscopic sinus surgery., Mohammad Adeel, Mubasher Ikram, Mohammad Shaheryar Ahmed Rajput, Asif Arain, and Yasir Jamil Khattak
A systematic review of existing national priorities for child health research in sub-Saharan Africa, George Swingler, James Irlam, William Macharia, Felix Tietche, and Martin Meremikwu
A take on social wellbeing attributes by first year medical students, Rehana Rehman, Maria Habib, and Syeda Sadia Fatima
Atrial myxoma: a rare cause of cardioembolic stroke, Junaid Akhtar, Mohammad Wasay, and Javeria Rauf
Attitude of medical students towards basic patient safety rules- an initial screening towards the global culture of patient safety in Pakistan, Munir Moosa Sadruddin and Sadaf Sachwani
Attitudes of developing world physicians to where medical research is performed and reported, John Page, Richard F. Heller, Scott Kinlay, Lynette Lim, Wang Qian, Zheng Suping, Supornchai Kongpatanakul, Murtaza Akhtar, Salah Khedr, and William Macharia
Attitudes towards child restrains and seat belts usage in the learned population of Karachi, Pakistan., Emaduddin Siddiqui, Kiran Ejaz, Shahan Waheed, Ghazala Irfan Kazi, and Munawar Khursheed
Attitudes towards child restrains and seat belts usage in the learned population of Karachi, Pakistan., Emaduddin Siddiqui
Attrition in surgical residency --- the real face of a hidden problem, Mehwash Nadeem, M Shahrukh Effendi, and M Hammad Ather
Autoclaved tumor bone for skeletal reconstruction in paediatric patients: a low cost alternative in developing countries., Masood Umer, Hafiz Muhammad Umer, Irfan Qadir, Haroon Rashid, Rabia Awan, Raza Askari, and Shamvil Ashraf
Automated Reporting of Estimated Glomerular Filtration Rate: A Comparison of Creatinine Clearance, Modification of Diet in Renal Disease and Cockcroft Gault Equations from Pakistan, Lena Jafri, Aysha Habib Khan, Ather Hussain, Farooq Ghani, and Imran Siddiqui
Autopsy as a part of curriculum, a student’s perceptive, Gulfreen Waheed
Averting a malaria disaster in Africa - Where does the buck stop?, C.J.M. Whitty, R. Allan, V. Wiseman, S. Ochola, M.V. Nakyanzi-Mugisha, B. Vonhm, M. Mwita, C. Miaka, A. Oloo, Zul Premji, C. Burgess, and T.K. Mutabingwa
A visual presentation of Advanced Cardiac Life Support program: a curriculum map, M. Faisal Rahim, Zubairuddin Bhatti, Shoaib Bhatti, and Absar Ali
Background demographics and risk behaviors of injecting drug users in Karachi, Pakistan, Shehzad Parviz, Zafar Fatmi, Arshad Altaf, Joseph B. McCormick, S. Fischer-Hoch, Mohammad Rahbar, and Stephen Luby
Bacterial isolates in severely malnourished children at Kenyatta National Hospital, Nairobi, N. Noorani, William Macharia, D. Oyatsi, and Gunturu Revathi
Barriers to teaching critical thinking by BSCN nursing faculty, Shehla Khan
BCG vaccination is associated with decreased severity of tuberculosis in Pakistan, Zahra Hasan, Muhammad Irfan, Javaid A. Khan, Shehryar Khaliqdina Jahangir, Muhammad Haris, Mussarat Ashraf, Naseem Salahuddin, Bushra Jamil, and Nisar A. Rao
Becoming and being a doctoral supervisor in Pakistan: A lived experience, Nelofer Halai
Becoming a teacher educator through action research, Rahat Joldoshalieva
Behavioral sciences for Health Professions Education, Asma Humayun, Murad Khan, and Nargis Asad
Behavioural Counseling: Lifestyle Modification and Rehabilitation, Samina Shah and Hadia Pasha
Being left-handed in a right-handed world, Melaine D'Cruze
Better drug therapy for the children of Africa: current impediments to success and potential strategies for improvement, Stuart M. MacLeod, Janet K. Finch, William Macharia, and Gabriel M. Anabwani
Biotinidase deficiency in Pakistani children; what needs to be known and done, Bushra Afroze and Mohammad Wasay
Birth Centre Management and Business Skill Training for Community Midwives of Pakistan, Laila Lalji, Laila Akbar Ali, Marina Baig, Rozina Sewani, Arusa Lakhani, Karyn Kaufman, and Rafat Jan
Blended teaching in surgical clinical posting for undergraduate students, Masood Jawaid, Abdul Khalique, and Nighatbakhtiar
Bleomycin induced pneumonitis: a case successfully managed with high-dose steroids, Shahid Javed Husain, Ali Bin Sarwar Zubairi, and Muhammad Irfan
Blood Pressure Lowering Effect of Morus alba is Mediated Through Ca++ Antagonist Pathway, Munasib Khan, Arif-ullah Khan, and Anwar Hassan Gilani
Body mass index or body fat! which is a better obesity scale for Pakistani population?, Syeda Sadia Fatima, Rehana Rehman, and Bushra Chaudhry
Bone involvement in childhood acute lymphoblastic leukaemia., William Macharia
Botulinum toxin type-A in the management of cerebral palsy: low or high dose?, Alper I. Dai and Mohammad Wasay
Breast cancer diagnosis in a resource poor environment through a collaborative multidisciplinary approach: the Kenyan experience, Shahin Sayed, Zahir Moloo, Peter Bird, Ronald Wasike, Wambui Njoroge, Joseph Karanu, Ancent Nzioka, Omar Sherman, Satya Prasad, Costa Mariwa, James Obondi Otieno, David Chumba, David Koech, Daniel Mbinga, Musa Mohammed, Richard Njoroge, Rajendra Chauhan, Sudhir Vinayak, Catherine Kyobutungi, and Mansoor Saleh
Breast cancer with associated granulomatous axillary lymphadenitis: a diagnostic and clinical dilemma in regions with high prevalence of tuberculosis, Khurram Minhas, Tariq Moatter, and Shahid Pervez
Breast Diseases: a histopathological analysis of 3279 Cases at a Tertiary Care Center in Pakistan, M. S. Siddiqui, Naila Kayani, Shahid Pervez, S. A. Aziz, S. Muzaffar, Z. Setna, M. Israr, S. H. Hasan, and M. S. Gill
Bronchial artery embolization in the treatment of massive hemoptysis, Ali Bin Sarwar Zubairi, Tanveer Haq, Kulsoom Fatima, Muhammad Azeemuddin, Zubairi M. A., and Mohammad Irfan
Bronchial Carcinoid Presenting as Multiple Lung Abscesses, Zeeshan Waheed, Muhammad Irfan, Saulat Fatimi, and Ruqaiya Shahid
Broncho alveolar carcinoma (B.A.C.), Ahmed N. Abbasi, Muhammad Irfan, and Syed Arsalan Raza
Bronchodilator Activity of Aerial Parts of Polygonatum verticillatum Augmented by Anti-inflammatory Activity: Attenuation of Ca2+ Channels and Lipoxygenase, Haroon Khan, Muhammad Saeed, Anwaruli Hassan Gilani, Malik Hassan Mehmood, Najeeb ur Rehman, Naveed Muhammad, Muzaffar Abbas, and Ikram ul Haq
Bronchodilator, cardiotonic and spasmolytic activities of the stem barks of Terminalia arjuna., Janbaz K. H, Hamid I, Mahmood M. H, and Anwar Hussain Gilani
B-type natriuretic peptide versus amino terminal pro-B type natriuretic peptide: selecting the optimal heart failure marker in patients with impaired kidney function, Lena Jafri, Waqar Kashif, Javed Tai, Imran Siddiqui, Iqbal Azam, Hira Shahzad, and Farooq Ghani
Building communities of practice in Pakistani schools, Fauzia Shamim and Iffat Farah
Building teacher leadership capacity: Appreciative inquiry in action, Mehboob Ali Shah
Burden of Communicable Disease among the Native and Repatriating Afghans, Syed Hani Abidi, Farwa Ali, Farida Shah, and Farhat Abbas
Burden of skin lesions of arsenicosis at higher exposure through groundwater of taluka Gambat district Khairpur, Pakistan: a cross-sectional survey, Zafar Fatmi, Imran Naeem Abbasi, Mubashir Ahmed, Ambreen Kazi, and Fujio Kayama
Calcium Channel Blocking Activity in Desmostachya bipinnata (L.) Explains its use in Gut and Airways Disorders, Hafiz Abdur Rahman, Samra Bashir, and Anwar Hassan Gilani
Cancer control with radical prostatectomy alone in 1,000 consecutive patients., Gerald W. Hull, Farhang Rabbani, Farhat Abbas, Thomas M. Wheeler, Michael W. Kattan, and Peter D. Scardino
Cancer Esophagus Karachi 1995-2002:Epidemiology, Risk Factors and Trends, Y. Bhurgri, N. Faridi, L. A.G. Kazi, S. K. Ali, H. Bhurgri, A. Usman, J. Malik, A. Bhurgri, R. Ahmed, S. Muzaffar, N. Kayani, Shahid Pervez, and S. H. Hasan
Cancer of the Oral Cavity and Pharynx in Karachi - Identification of Potential Risk Factors, Yasmin Bhurgri, Asif Bhurgri, Akbar Shah Hussainy, Ahmed Usman, Naveen Faridi, Jawaid Malik, Zubair Ahmed Zaidi, Suhail Muzaffar, Naila Kayani, Shahid Pervez, and Sheema H. Hasan
Cancer Patterns in Karachi Division (1998-1999), Y. Bhurgri, S. Naseeruddin, S. A. H. Zaidi, A. Bhurgri, Z. A. Zaidi, S. H. Hasan, A. Usman, N. Faridi, K. Z. Hashmi, H. Ahsan, J. Malik, M. Khurshid, Shahid Pervez, Naila Kayani, S. M. H. Zaidi, I. Bashir, Z. Isani, F. Sethna, and S. M. AIam
Cancer Patterns in Quetta (1998-1999), Yasmin Bhurgri, Hadi Bhurgri, A. Ajam, Shahid Pervez, S. H. Hasan, A. Usman, J. A. Khan, Q. Kasi, I. Kasi, A. G. Rasool, A. Bhurgri, N. Faridi, and J. Malik
Cancer profile of Hyderabad, Pakistan 1998-2002, Yasmin Bhurgri, Asif Bhurgri, Shahid Pervez, Mishaal Bhurgri, Naila Kayani, Rashida Ahmed, Ahmed Usman, and Sheema H. Hasan
Cancer Profile of Larkana , Pakistan (2000-2002), Yasmin Bhurgri, Shahid Pervez, Naila Kayani, Asif Bhurgri, Ahmed Usman, Imtiaz Bashir, Rashida Ahmed, Sheema H. Hasan, and Mohd. Khurshid
Candida esophagitis: Risk factors in non-HIV population in Pakistan, Javed Yakoob, Wasim Jafri, Shahab Abid, Nadim Jafri, Muhammad Islam, Saeed Hamid, Hasnain Ali Shah, and Akbar S. Hussainy
Candida oesophagitis with Hepatitis C virus: an uncommon association, Javed Yakoob, Wasim Jafri, and Akbar S. Hussainy
Can resident-driven clinical pathways improve patient-centered outcomes? The CHAMP-Path methodology and preliminary experience, K H M Quadri, T Alaifan, R Assebaiei, S Nawawi, O Hakami, A AlSaiedi, M Alageeli, R Alharbi, A Ahmad, and A Dobyany
Capacity building of public health professionals in data analysis for nutritional surveillance, Rukhsana Khan
Cardiac abnormalities in children with malignancies at Kenyatta National Hospital, N. Kariuki, William Macharia, and H. O. Aseso
Cardiovascular and airway relaxant activities of peony root extract, Muhammad N. Ghayur; Anwar Hassan Gilani; Huma Rasheed; Abdullah Khan; Zafar Iqbal; Muhammad Ismail; Sheikh A. , Saeed; and Luke J. Janssen
Cardiovascular inhibitory properties of Lens culinaris, Munasib Khan, Arif-ullah Khan, Najeeb-ur- Rehman, and Anwar Hassan Gilani
Care of the dying patient: a neglected issue in Pakistani context, Waris Qidwai
CARRS Surveillance study: design and methods to assess burdens from multiple perspectives, Manisha Nair, Mohammed K. Ali, Vamadevan S. Ajay, Roopa Shivashankar, Viswanathan Mohan, Rajendra Pradeepa, Hassan M. Khan, Muhammad M. Kadir, Zafar Fatmi, K Srinath Reddy, Nikhil Tandon, KM Venkat Narayan, and Dorairaj Prabhakaran
Case Control Study of Novel Prognostic Markers and Disease Outcome in Pregnancy/Lactation-associated Breast Carcinoma, Syed Aziz, Shahid Pervez, Shaista Khan, Tariq Siddiqui, Naila Kayani, Muhammad Israr, and Mohammed Rahbar
Case control study of prognostic markers and disease outcome in inflammatory carcinoma breast: a unique clinical experience, Syed A. Aziz, Shahid Pervez, Shaista Khan, Naila Kayani, Syed I. Azam, and Mohammad H. Rahbar
Case Report-Maternal Death due to Rupture of the Uterus, Sumia Bari
Causes, magnitude and management of burns in under-fives in district hospitals in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania., M. Justin-Temu, G. Rimoy, Zul Premji, and G. Matemu
CCL2 Responses to Mycobacterium Tuberculosis are associated with disease severity in Tuberculosis, Zahra Hasan, Jacqueline M. Cliff, Hazel M. Dockrell, Bushra Jamil, Muhammad Irfan, Mussarat Ashraf, and Rabia Hussain
Ceftriaxone or HIV associated angio-oedema? Case report, William Macharia, C. Mbaabu, L. Wachira, S.O.M. Muhudhia, and G. Moniz
Center-based prevalence of anxiety and depression in women of the northern areas of Pakistan, Sunita Dodani and Rukhsana Wamiq Zuberi
Central nervous system involvement in dengue viral infection, Romasa Channa and Mohammad Wasay
Central nervous system lymphomas: a histologic and immunophenotypic analysis, Suhail Muzaffar, M. Shahid Siddiqui, Irshad Nabi Soomro, Shahid Pervez, Naila Kayani Naila Kayani, Sheema H. Hasan Sheema H. Hasan Sheema H. Hasan, and lmran Siddiqui lmran Siddiqui
Cerebral infarction and tuberculoma in central nervous system tuberculosis: frequency and prognostic implications, Mohammad Wasay, Salman Farooq, Zubair Ali Khowaja, Zeeshan Ali Bawa, Shehzad Mansoor Ali, Safia Awan, Mohammad Asim Beg, and Man Mohan Mehndiratta
Cerebral Venous Sinus Thrombosis: Association with Primary Varicella Zoster Virus Infection, Shaista Anwar Siddiqi, Sadia Nishat, Durreshahwar Kanwar, Farheen Ali, Muhammad Azeemuddin, and Mohammad Wasay Wasay
Cerebral venous thrombosis: a descriptive multicenter study of patients in Pakistan and Middle East, Bhojo A Khealani, Mohammad Wasay, Mohammed Saadah, Erum Sultana, Shahid Mustafa, Farrukh Shohab Khan, and Ayeesha K. Kamal
Cerebral Venous Thrombosis: recent advances and need for an Asian Registry, Mohammad Wasay and Ayeesha K. Kamal
Changes in malaria associated morbidity in children using insecticide treated mosquito nets in the Bagamoyo District of Coastal Tanzania, Zul Premji, P. Lubega, Y. Hamisi, E. Mchopa, J. Minjus, W. Checkley, and C. Shiff
Changes in weight gain and anaemia attributable to malaria in Tanzanian children living under holoendemic conditions, C. Shiff, W. Checkley, P. Winch, Zul Premji, J. Minjas, and P. Lubega
Changing patterns and outcome of Dengue infection; report from a tertiary care hospital in Pakistan, Mohammad Wasay, Roomasa Channa, Maliha Jumani, and Afia Zafar
Characteristics of a healthy environment, Saima Khalid
Characterization of T-cell Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma and its Association with Epstein-Barr Virus in Pakistani Patients, Samina Noorali, Shahid Pervez, Tariq Moatter, Irshad Nabi Soomro, Shahana Urooj Kazmi, Muhammad Israr Nasir, and John Lewis Smith
Chemical analysis and calcium channel blocking activity of the essential oil of Perovskia abrotanoides., Shah AJ, Rasheed M, Ahmed A, Anwar Hassan Gilani, Tareen RB, Nadir M, and Ahmad VU
Chemical dependency: An occupational hazard in the field of anaesthesia, Samina Ismail
Chest radiographs in acute pulmonary embolism, Ali Bin Sarwar Zubairi, Shahid Javed Husain, Muhammad Irfan, Kulsoom Fatima, Muhammad Atif Zubairi, and Muhammad Islam
Chewing of betel, areca and tobacco: perceptions and knowledge regarding their role in head and neck cancers in an urban squatter settlement in Pakistan, Muhammad RizwanulHaq Khawaja, Samia Mazahir, Atif Majeed, Farida Malik, Kanwal AliRaza Merchant, Maria Maqsood, Rabia Malik, Shehzad Ghaffar, and Zafar Fatmi
Childhood asthma at Kenyatta National Hospital, Nairobi., William Macharia, N.M. Mirza, Ezekiel Wafula, and F.E. Onyango
Childhood cancers in a referral hospital in Kenya: a review, William Macharia
Childhood cancers in Kenya, William Macharia
Childhood unintentional injuries: need for a community-based home injury risk assessments in Pakistan., Adnan A. Hyder, Aruna Chandran, Uzma R. Khan, Nukhba Zia, Cheng-Ming Huang, Sarah Stewart de Ramirez, and Junaid Razzak
Chloroquine resistant Plasmodium falciparum in coastal Tanzania. A challenge to the continued strategy of village based chemotherapy for malaria control, Zul Premji, J.N. Minjas, and C.J. Shiff
Chloroquine treatment for uncomplicated childhood malaria in an area with drug resistance: Early treatment failure aggravates anaemia, H. Ekvall, Zul Premji, and A. Bjorkman
Chlorproguanil - Dapsone - Artesunate versus artemether - Lumefantrine: A randomized, double-blind phase III trial in African children and adolescents with uncomplicated Plasmodium falciparum malaria, Zul Premji, R.E. Umeh, S. Owusu-Agyei, F. Esamai, E.U. Ezedinachi, S. Oguche, S. Borrmann, A. Sowunmi, S. Duparc, P.L. Kirby, A. Pamba, L. Kellam, R. Guiguemde, B. Greenwood, S.A. Ward, and P.A. Winstanley
Chronic Kidney disease-integration into the NCD agenda, Dr Tazeen H. Jafar
Chronic lymphocytic leukemia in Kenya: an immunophenotypic and clinicopathologic study, E. Mulwa-Babu, D. Paresh, and M. Riyat
Civilian Craniocerebral Gunshot Injuries in a Developing Country: Presentation, Injury Characteristics, Prognostic Indicators, and Complications., Khan MB, Kumar R, Irfan FB, Irfan AB, and Bari ME
Clinical and Dosimetric Implications of Air Gaps between Bolus and Skin Surface during Radiation Therapy, Yousaf Khan, J Eduardo Villarreal-Barajas, Mona Udowicz, Richie Sinha, Wazir Muhammad, Ahmed N. Abbasi, and Amjad Hussain
Clinical characteristics and outcomes of atrial fibrillation and flutter at the Aga Khan University Hospital, Nairobi, J. Shavadia, G. Yonga, S. Mwanzi, A. Jinah, A. Moriasi, and H. Otieno
Clinical decision making in acutely sick patients, Nadeemullah Khan
Clinical features, proximate causes, and consequences of active convulsive epilepsy in Africa, Symon M. Kariuki, William Matuja, Albert Akpalu, Angelina Kakooza-Mwesige, Martin Chabi, Ryan G. Wagner, Myles Connor, Eddie Chengo, Anthony K. Ngugi, Rachael Odhiambo, Christian Bottomley, Steven White, Josemir W. Sander, Brian G. R. Neville, and Charles R. J. C. Newton
Clinical, pathological and molecular factors predicting Axillary Node involvement in primary Breast Cancer in Pakistani women, T. Siddiqui, A. Salam, S. Khan, N. Kayani, and Shahid Pervez
Clinical presentation and treatment outcome in children with nephroblastoma in Kenya, F.K. Abdallah and William Macharia
Clinical presentation of atopic dermatitis in Negroid children., William Macharia, G.M. Anabwani, and D.M. Owili
Clinical spectrum and outcone pf patients with Rhinocerebral mucormycosis: a retrospective review of patients admitted at AKUH, Moghira Iqbal, Mubasher Ikram, and Munawar A. Khan
Clinical spectrum and severity of hemolytic anemia in glucose 6-phosphate dehydrogenase-deficient children receiving dapsone, A. Pamba, N.D. Richardson, N. Carter, S. Duparc, Zul Premji, A.B. Tiono, and L. Luzzatto
Clinico-pathologic characteristics and treatment outcomes in children with neuroblastoma at the Kenyatta National Hospital, Nairobi., Grace Kitonyi, William Macharia, Otieno Walter Mwanda, and R. Pamnani
Closing Remarks and Vote of Thanks, Saima Sachwani
Clothing-related motorcycle injuries in Pakistan: findings from a surveillance study, Uzma R. Khan, Junaid A. Bhatti, M. Shahzad Shamim, Nukhba Zia, Junaid A. Razzak, and Rashid Jooma
Coartem°: The journey to the clinic, Zul Premji
Co-learning partnership: A way forward to develop learning communities in Pakistani schools, Razia Fakir Mohammad
College to faculty: proposal for integration of medical education institutions in universities, Rai Khalid Farooq
Colorectal Carcinoma, Extent and Spread in our Population. Resection Specimens give Valuable Information, Zubair Ahmad, Rooma Idrees, Rashid Ahmed, Naila Kayani, Shahid Pervez, and Sheema Habibul Hasan
Commercial vehicles and road safety in Pakistan: exploring high-risk attributes among drivers and vehicles, Mohammed Umer Mir, Junaid Adbul Razzak, and Khabir Ahmad
Common malpractices in medical research paper writing: the way it is and the way it should be, Ramsha Rukh
Community based lifestyle intervention for blood pressure reduction in children and young adults in developing country: cluster randomized controlled trial., Tazeen H. Jafar, Muhammad Islam, Juanita Hatcher, Anwar Hassan Gilani, Shiraz Hashmi, Rasool Bux, Ayesha Khan, Neil Poulter, Salma Badruddin, and Nish Chaturvedi
Community based studies on childhood mortality in a malaria holoendemic area on the Tanzanian coast, Zul Premji, P. Ndayanga, C. Shiff, J. Minjas, P. Lubega, and J. MacLeod
Community-based versus health facility-based management of acute malnutrition for reducing the prevalence of severe acute malnutrition in children 6 to 59 months of age in low- and middle-income countries, Yasir Shafiq, Ali Saleem, Zohra S. Lassi, and Anita KM Zaidi
Community screening and treatment of asymptomatic carriers of Plasmodium falciparum with artemether-lumefantrine to reduce malaria disease burden: A modelling and simulation analysis, S.E. Kern, A.B. Tiono, M. Makanga, A. Gbadoe, Zul Premji, O. Gaye, I. Sagara, D. Ubben, M. Cousin, F. Oladiran, O. Sander, and B. Ogutu
Comparative predictive value of three prognostic markers--S-phase fraction, PCNA and Mitotic count on axillary lymph node metastasis in carcinoma breast, Shahid Pervez, Muhammad Nadeem Khan, and Muhammad Israr Nasir
Comparing Papanicolau smear, visual inspection with acetic acid and human papillomavirus cervical cancer screening methods among HIV-positive women by immune status and antiretroviral therapy, M. H. Chung; K. P. McKenzie; H. D. Vuyst; B. A. Richardson; F. Rana,; R. Pamnani; J. W. Njoroge; E. Nyongesa-Malava; S. R. Sakr; G. C. John-Stewart; and N. R. Mugo
Comparing risk factors of HIV among hijra sex workers in Larkana and other cities of Pakistan: an analytical cross sectional study, Arshad Altaf, Aysha Zahidie, and Ajmal Agha
Comparison between Tramadol and Pethidine in Patient Controlled Intravenous Analgesia, Faisal Shamim, Muhammad Qamarul Hoda, Khalid Samad, and Salman Sabir
Comparison of antimicrobial activity of zinc chloride and bismuth subsalicylate against clinical isolates of Helicobacter pylori., Javed Yakoob, Z Abbas, Usman Muhammad Waqas, Safia Awan, Shagufta Naz, Fatima Jafri, Saeed Hamid, and Wasim Jafri
Comparison of biopsy-based methods for the detection of Helicobacter pylori infection, Javed Yakoob, Muhammad Islam, Shahab Abid, Wasim Jafri, Zaigham Abbas, and Z. Ahmad
Comparison of chlorproguanil-dapsone with sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine for the treatment of uncomplicated falciparum malaria in young African children: Double-blind randomised controlled trial, A. Alloueche, W. Bailey, S. Barton, J. Bwika, P. Chimpeni, C.O. Falade, F.A. Fehintola, J. Horton, S. Jaffar, T. Kanyok, P.G. Kremsner, J.G. Kublin, T. Lang, and M.A. Missinou
Comparison of HPV DNA testing in cervical exfoliated cells and tissue biopsies among HIV-positive women in Kenya, Hugo De Vuyst, Michael H. Chung, Lacopo Baussano, Nelly R. Mugo, Vanessa Tenet, Folkert J. van Kemenade, Farzana S. Rana, Samah R. Sakr, Chris J.L.M. Meijer, Peter J.F. Snijders, and Silvia Franceschi
Comparison of prognostic determinants in childhood acute lymphoblastic leukaemia in Negroid and Caucasian populations, William Macharia
Comparison of the virulence markers of helicobacter pylori and their associated diseases in patients from Pakistan and Afghanistan, Javed Yakoob, Zaigham Abbas, Wasim Jafri, Muhammad W. Usman, Fatima Jafri, and Safia Awan
Complex Biological Reconstruction after Wide Excision of Osteogenic Sarcoma in Lower Extremities, Kashif Abbas, Masood Umer, and Haroon Ur Rashid
Complications of Total Hip Replacement, Kashif Abbas, Ghulam Murtaza, Masood Umer, Haroon Rashid, and Irfan Qadir
Composition of renal stones currently observed in non-industrialized countries, Michel Daudon, Bounthaphany BOUNXOUEI, Francisco SANTA CRUZ, Sônia LEITE DA SILVA, Boucar DIOUF, Fru F. III ANGWAFOO, Jamsheer J Talati, and Gonzague DESREZ
Concept mapping: A strategy for teaching and evaluation in nursing education, Raisa B. Gul and Jeanette A. Boman
Conceptual framework for development of comprehensive e-Health evaluation tool, Shariq Khoja, Hammad Durrani, Richard E. Scott, Afroz Sajwani, and Usha Piryani
Concluding Session, AEME Conference 2013 and 16th AKU Symposium
Conclusions and recommendations of a who expert consultation meeting on iron supplementation for infants and young children in malaria endemic areas [Conclusions et recommandations à l'issue de la consultation de l'oms sur la lutte contre la carence martiale chez le nourrisson et le jeune enfant dans les pays d'endémie palustre], L. Allen, R.E. Black, N. Brandes, G. Brittenham, G. Chazot, C Chunming, J. Crawley, B. De Benoist, N. Dalmiya, I. Darnton-Hill, K. Dewey, S. El-Arifeen, O. Fontaine, C. Geissler, H. Haberle, P. Harvey, J. Hasler, C. Hershko, R. Hurrell, M.A. Juma, B. Lonnerdal, B. Lozoff, S. Lynch, H. Martines Salgado, E. McLean, J. Metz, S. Oppenheimer, Zul Premji, A. Prentice, M. Ramsan, C. Ratledge, R. Stoltzfus, and J. Tielsch
Confusing presentation of chaetomium brain abscess., Muhammad Waqas, Shahan Waheed, Salman Ahmed Mangrio, Sana Rashid, Mohsin Qadeer, and Muhammad Ehsan Bari
Congenital Bilateral Choanal Atresia, Ali Faisal Saleem, Shabina Arif, Nadeem Aslam, and Mubasher Ikram
Conjoined twins - a review of literature with two case studies, Naaeem Uz-Zafar Khan, Nadeem Ullah Khan, Khalid Matin, and Adnan Zaidi
Conservative management of significant supratentorial epidural hematomas in pediatric patients, Khan MB, Riaz M, and Javed G
Contexts and conditions for action research as a tool, Razia Fakir Mohammad and Roshni Kumari
Contractile Effect of Radish and Betel Nut Extracts on Rabbit Gallbladder, Muhammad Nabeel Ghayur and Anwar Hassan Gilani
Contribution of basic sciences laboratory sessions in medical education: an overview, Hina Zuberi, Naseema Mehboobali, Farzana Abubakar, and Kauser Saboohi
Cooperative learning in nursing education, Muhammad Adnan Kanpurwala
Correlates of morbidity and mortality in severe necrotizing pancreatitis, K. M. Pal, Pashtoon Murtaza Kasi, Mohammad Tayyeb, S. M. Faisal Mosharraf, and Zafar Fatmi
Correlation of three immunohistochemically detected markers of neuroendocrine differentiation with clinical predictors of disease progression in prostate cancer., M Hammad Ather, Farhat Abbas, Nuzhat Fauqui, Mohammad Israr, and Shahid Pervez
Cosmopolitanisms in Muslim Contexts : Perspectives from the Past, Derryl N. MacLean and Sikeena Karmali Ahmed
Cost effectiveness of responsive stimulation and nutrition interventions on early child development outcomes in Pakistan, Saima Gowani, Aisha K. Yousafzai, Robert Armstrong, and Zulfiqar A. Bhutta
Co-supervision of Doctoral Students: Enhancing the Learning Experience, Pauline Paul, Joanne K. Olson, and Raisa B. Gul
CT scan in children with acute bacterial meningitis: experience from emergency department of a tertiary-care hospital in Karachi, Pakistan, Jabeen Fayyaz, Arshalooz Rehman, Akhter Hamid, Munawar Khursheed, Nukhba Zia, Asher Feroze, and Uzma Rahim Khan
Culture and quality care perceptions in a Pakistani hospital., Fauziah Rabbani, S.M. Wasim Jafri, Farhat Abbas, Firdous Jahan, Nadir Ali Syed, Gregory Pappas, Syed Iqbal Azam, Mats Brommels, and Goran Tomson
Current clinical efficacy of chloroquine for the treatment of Plasmodium falciparum infections in urban Dar es Salaam, United Republic of Tanzania, Zul Premji, C. Makwaya, and J.N. Minjas
current state of poison control centers in Pakistan and the need for capacity building., Nadeem Ullah Khan, Mohammed Umer Mir, Uzma Rahim Khan, Afshan Rahim Khan, Jamal Ara, Khurram Raja, and Farhat Hussain Mirza
Cytokine and clinical response to Saccharomyces boulardii therapy in diarrhea-dominant irritable bowel syndrome: a randomized trial, Zaigham Abbas, Javed Yakoob, Wasim Jafri, Zubair Ahmad, Zahid Azam, Muhammad Waqas Usman, Sara Shamim, and Muhammad Islam
Cytokine changes in colonic mucosa associated with Blastocystis spp. subtypes 1 and 3 in diarrhoea-predominant irritable bowel syndrome, Javed Yakoob, Zaigham Abbas, Muhammad Waqas Usman, Aisha Sultana, Muhammad Islam, Safia Awan, Zubair Ahmad, Saeed Hamid, and Wasim Jafri
Death certificate completion skills of hospital physicians in a developing country, Ahmed Suleman Haque, Kanza Shamim, Najm Hasan Siddiqui, Muhammad Irfan, and Javaid Ahmed Khan
Deceased-donor organ transplantation: knowledge and attitudes among health care professionals managing critically ill patients in Karachi, Osama Tariq Siddiqui, Sobia Nizami, Emmon Raza, Mohammad Usman Ali, Marvi Bikak, Saad Siddiqui, Sania Hanif Khan, Mohsin Ali Mustafa, Sahoor Khan, and Zafar Fatmi
Decompressive surgery for malignant cerebral venous sinus thrombosis: a retrospective case series from Pakistan and comparative literature re, Emmon Raza, Muhammad S. Shamim, Muhammad Faisal Wadiwala, Bilal Ahmed, and Ayeesha Kamran Kamal
Demonstration of microbiology laboratory sessions through videos: an effective teaching strategy, Fatima Kubra
Depression and its associated risk factors in medical and surgical post graduate trainees at a teaching hospital: a cross sectional survey from a developing country, Aisha Yousuf, Sidra Ishaque, and Waris Qidwai
Depression in the elderly: does family system play a role? a cross-sectional study, Ather M. Taqui, Ahmed Itrat, Waris Qidwai, and Zeeshan Qadri
Designing a balanced scorecard for a tertiary care hospital in Pakistan: a modified Delphi group exercise., Fauziah Rabbani, Syed M Wasim Jafri, Farhat Abbas, Mairaj Shah, Syed Iqbal Azam, Babar Tasneem Shaikh, Mats Brommels, and Goran Tomson
Designing a Clinical Trails in the area of Non-Communicable Diseases, Romaina Iqbal, Nadia Ansari, and Ashar Malik
Determinants of patient's satisfaction with health care system in Pakistan: a critical review, Maliha Naseer, Aysha Zahidie, and Babar Tasneem Shaikh
Determining the construct validity of assessment of clinical competence in internal medicine clerkship (at AgaKhan University), Azam S Afzal, Tabassum Zehra, Junaid Patel, Sara Sajid, Syeda Kauser Ali, and Saeed Hamid
Determining the medical education environment across multiple undergraduate teaching sites in Pakistan using the DREEM inventory, Nazish Imran, Faiza Khalid, Masood Jawaid, and Sami-ud-din
Developing & enhancing utilization of written discharge instructions :a patient safety initiative, Rozina Barkat
Developing nursing leaders through graduate education in Pakistan, Michele J. Upvall, Rozina Karmaliani, Farida Pirani, Raisa B. Gul, and Farida Khalid
Developing teaching and learning resources using technology, Azra Naseem, Khairulnissa Ajani, Melaine D'Cruze, and Khurram Iqbal
Development and pilot implementation of a locally developed Trauma Registry: lessons learnt in a low-income country, Amber Mehmood, Junaid Abdul Razzak, Sarah Kabir, Ellen J. MacKenzie, and Adnan A. Hyder
Development Models in Muslim Contexts : Chinese, 'Islamic' and Neo-liberal Alternatives, Robert Springborg
Development of a quantitative food frequency questionnaire for use among rural South Africans in KwaZulu Natal, T. Sheehy, F. Kolahdooz, L. T. Mtshali, Tashmin Khamis, and S. Sharma
Development of skin hypopigmentation in a patient with metastatic papillary carcinoma thyroid treated with Sorafenib., Syed Zubair Hussain, Ali Asghar, Mubasher Ikram, and Najmul Islam
Development of the Community-Oriented Medical Education Curriculum of Pakistan: A Case Report on the National Initiative on Curriculum Development, Lubna A. Baig, Durre Samin Akram, and Syeda Kauser Ali
Diabetic Management Education for Healthcare Professionals, Asma Ahmed
Diagnosis, treatment and follow-Up in four children with biotinidase deficiency from Pakistan, Bushra Afroze and Mohammad Wasay
Diagnostic Surgical Pathology: the importance of Second Opinion in a Developing Country, Z. Ahmed, N. Yaqoob, S. Muzaffar, N. Kayani, S. Pervez, and S. H. Hasan
Diagnostic utility of anti-citrullinated protein antibody and its comparison with rheumatoid factor in rheumatoid arthritis, Aysha Habib Khan, Lena Jafri, M Ahraz Hussain, and Saliha Ishaq
Differences in response to imatinib between gastrointestinal stromal tumours involving the liver and tumours that do not: experience from Nairobi, N.A. Abinya Othieno, M. Riyat Singh, R. Omollo, and G. Kiarie Wanjiru
Differential Early Secreted Antigen Target (ESAT) 6 kDa–induced IFN-γ and SOCS1 expression distinguishes latent and active tuberculosis, Kiran Iqbal Masood, Rabia Hussain, Nisar Rao, Martin E. Rottenberg, Naseem Salahuddin, Muhammad Irfan, and Zahra Hasan
Differential Live Mycobacterium tuberculosis- , M. bovis BCG-, Recombinant ESAT6-, and Culture Filtrate Protein 10-Induced Immunity in Tuberculosis, Zahra Hasan, Bushra Jamil, Mussarat Ashraf, Muniba Islam, Maqboola Dojki, Muhammad Irfan, and Rabia Hussain
Differentiating Asthma from its mimics, Zeeshan Waheed, Muhammad Irfan, Mohammad Salih, and Ali Bin Sarwar Zubairi
Diffuse large B cell lymphoma (DLBCL) in Pakistan: an emerging epidemic?, Muhammad Bilal Abid, Faria Nasim, Kashif Anwar, and Shahid Pervez
Disparities in access to surgical care within a lower income country: an alarming inequity, Syed Nabeel Zafar, Zafar Fatmi, Aftab Iqbal, Roomasa Channa, and Adil H. Haider
Disseminating childhood home injury risk reduction information in Pakistan: results from a community-based pilot study, Aruna Chandran, Uzma Rahim Khan, Nukhba Zia, Asher Feroze, Sarah Stewart de Ramirez, Cheng-Ming Huang, Junaid A. Razzak, and Adnan A. Hyder
Diversity of Helicobacter pylori among Chinese persons with H. pylori infection., Javed Yakoob, Guo Ling Hu, Xue Gong Fan, Hui Xiang Yang, De Ming Tan, Tie Gan Li, and Zheng Zhang
DNA ploidy analyses in 218 consecutive Pakistani breast cancer patients: does it add anything?, Enver Khan, Zohair Ma Para, Shaista Khan, Naveeda Arshad, Tariq Siddiqui, and Shahid Pervez
DNA ploidy and S-phase fraction analyses of hyperplastic, atypical and cancerous endometrium using flow cytometry from paraffin-embedded tissues, Shahid Pervez, A. Hitchcock, T. M. Sinton, A. Mani, and J. L. Smith
DNMT1 silencing affects locus specific DNA methylation and increases prostate cancer derived PC3 cell invasiveness., Ahmed Yaqinuddin, Sohail A. Qureshi, Romena Qazi, Salman Farooq, and Farhat Abbas
“Doctor of physical therapy program” a gift from health education: is it really a gift, for whom?, Sajida Mazhar
Does a brief education intervention improve comfort level in evidence –based literature search for general practitioners?, Marie Andrades
Does community health care requires different competencies from physicians and nurses?, Zahra Ladhani
Does Prophylactic use of Dexamethasone have a role in reducing post Extubation Stridor and Reintubation in children?, Ali Faisal Saleem, Surrayo Bano, and Anwarul Haque
Do geriatric home visits enhance learning of postgraduate trainees? –A qualitative study from Pakistan, Saniya Sabzwari
Dosimetry of small fields in radiation therapy, Asad Yousuf
Down-regulation of DNMT3b in PC3 cells effects locus-specific DNA methylation, and represses cellular growth and migration., Ahmed Yaqinuddin, Sohail A. Qureshi, Romena Qazi, and Farhat Abbas
Dr John Norcini – A Pioneer in the Field of Medical Education joins the IJS Executive Committee, Jamsheer J Talati and Riaz Agha
Drug Resistance Pattern in Multidrug Resistance Pulmonary Tuberculosis Patients, Nisar Ahmed Rao, Muhammad Irfan, Mir Mir Soomro, and Zeeshan Mehfooz
Early laparoscopic cholecystectomy for acute calculous cholecystitis: what is the optimal timing?, Asif Qureshi, Jahanzaib Haider, and Adnan Aziz
Early onset type 2 diabetes and associated risk factors, Grace Nyambura Kiraka
Early surgical results with intent to treat by radical retropubic prostatectomy for clinically localized prostate cancer., Farhat Abbas, K Siddiqui, S R. Biyabani, Jamsheer Talati, and S H. Hassan
Economics of health and health care in Pakistan, Muhammad Ashar Malik and Muhammad Wasay
Economics of health care in Pakistan, Dr Waqar Masood Khan
Educating children about global issues, Ali Nawab
Educating the next generation of health care professionals in the domain of patient safety, Ara Tekian
Education of doctors of the future, M Akbar Chaudhry
Effective communication of critical test results among care givers; a step towards quality improvement & patient safety, Mashhooda Rasool
Effective communication skills for a patient-centered consultation, Sameena Shah and Ayesha Rauf
Effective leadership practices of a government secondary school head teacher in the rural context of Gilgit-Baltistan (G-B), Muhammad Issa
Effectiveness of a course on research methodology in a Pediatric residency program, Farah Qamar
Effectiveness of artemether-lumefantrine provided by community health workers in under-five children with uncomplicated malaria in rural Tanzania: An open label prospective study, B.E. Ngasala, M. Malmberg, A.M. Carlsson, P.E. Ferreira, M.G. Petzold, D. Blessborn, Y. Bergqvist, J.P. Gil, Zul Premji, and A. Martensson
Effectiveness of educational interventions in improving clinical competence of residents in an internal medicine residency program in Pakistan., M Tariq, N A. Syed, A Motiwala, W Jafri, K Hamid, N Islam, M Riaz, S Awan, J Akhter, and J Talati
Effectiveness, safety and tolerability of Nigella sativa (Kalonji) seed extract on lipid levels, blood sugar, blood pressure and body weight in adults: Results of a randomized double blind controlled trial, Waris Qidwai, Hasan Bin Hamza, Riaz i. Qureshi, and Anwar Hassan Gilani
Effective & timely constructive feedback to residents; essential but often missing, Muhammed Tariq and Tabassum Zehra
Effect of age on haemodynamic response to tracheal intubation. A comparison of young, middle-aged and elderly patients, Ismail S, Azam SI, and Khan FA
Effect of age on uterine and ovarian morphology with polycystic ovaries, Ambreen Usmani, Rehana Rehman, and Aisha Qamar
Effect of a voice recognition system on paediatric outpatient medication errors, Angela Nyangore Migowa
Effect of behavioral management on migraine in adult patients visiting family practice clinics: a randomized controlled trial (pilot study), Swaleha Tariq and Asma Usman
Effect of dietary supplementation of black seed (N. Sativa L.) on lipid profile of patients suffering from diabetes, Waris Qidwai and Tabinda Ashfaq
Effect of Early Release of Tourniquet in Total Knee Arthroplasty, Kashif Abbas, Hasnain Raza, Masood Umer, and Kamran Hafeez
Effect of Helicobacter pylori and its virulence factors on portal hypertensive gastropathy and interleukin (IL)-8, IL-10, and tumor necrosis factor-alpha levels, Zaigham Abbas, Javed Yakoob, Muhammad W. Usman, Saeed Hamid, and Wasim Jafri
Effect of interleukin-4 on peripheral blood lymphocyte proliferation: implication in immunopathogenesis of H. pylori infection, Xue-Gong Fan, Javed Yakoob, Xue-Jun Fan, and Paul W.N. Keeling
Effect of mobile phone short message service on adherence rates to antihypertensives at the Family Medicine Clinic, Barbara Karau
Effect of pre-professional academic expenditures of different education systems on grades of students of medical colleges, Usama Bin Shaheen, Anum Nizam[, Qurrat ul Ain, Natasha Raza Saliha Bano, and Nazeer Khan
Effect of zinc on the treatment of Plasmodium falciparum malaria in children: A randomized controlled trial, F. Sempertegui, B. Estrella, F.R. Toapanta, D.S. Torres, D.E. Calahorrano, K. Yeboah-Antwi, E. Addo-Yobo, P. Arthur, S. Newton, Zul Premji, M. Hubert, C.S. Makwaya, F. Ssengooba, J. Konde-Lule, E. Mukisa, D.H. Hamer, W. MacLeod, C. Duggan, W. Fawzi, J. Simon, V. Mwanakasale, M. Mulenga, T. Sukwa, and J. Tshiula
Effects of skin contactants on evolution of atopic dermatitis in children: A case control study, William Macharia, G.M. Anabwani, and D.M. Owili
Efficacy and effectiveness of artemether-lumefantrine after initial and repeated treatment in children < 5 years of age with acute uncomplicated plasmodium falciparum malaria in rural Tanzania: A randomized trial, B.E. Ngasala, M. Malmberg, A.M. Carlsson, P.E. Ferreira, M.G. Petzold, D. Blessborn, Y. Bergqvist, J.P. Gil, Z. Premji, A. Bjorkman, and A. Martensson
Efficacy and safety of artemether-lumefantrine (Coartem®) tablets (six-dose regimen) in African infants and children with acute, uncomplicated falciparum malaria, C. Falade, M. Makanga, Zul Premji, C.E. Ortmann, M. Stockmeyer, and P. Ibarra de Palacios
Efficacy and safety of artemether-lumefantrine dispersible tablets compared with crushed commercial tablets in African infants and children with uncomplicated malaria: a randomised, single-blind, multicentre trial, Abdulla S., Sagara I., Borrmann S., D'Alessandro U., González R., M. Hamel, Bernhards Ogutu, A. Mårtensson, J. Lyimo, H. Maiga, P. Sasi, Alain Nahum, Quique Bassat, and E. Juma
Efficacy and safety of artemether-lumefantrine in the treatment of acute, uncomplicated Plasmodium falciparum malaria: A pooled analysis, M. Makanga, Q. Bassat, C.O. Falade, Zul Premji, S. Krudsood, P. Hunt, V. Walter, H.-P. Beck, A.-C. Marrast, M. Cousin, and P.J. Rosenthal
Efficacy and safety of intermittent preventive treatment with sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine for malaria in African infants: a pooled analysis of six randomised, placebo-controlled trials, J.J. Aponte, D. Schellenberg, A. Egan, A. Breckenridge, I. Carneiro, J. Critchley, I. Danquah, A. Dodoo, R. Kobbe, B. Lell, J. May, Zul Premji, S. Sanz, E. Sevene, R. Soulaymani-Becheikh, P. Winstanley, S. Adjei, S. Anemana, D. Chandramohan, S. Issifou, F. Mockenhaupt F., S. Owusu-Agyei, B. Greenwood, M.P. Grobusch, P.G. Kremsner, E. Macete, H. Mshinda, R.D. Newman, L. Slutsker, M. Tanner, P. Alonso, and C. Menendez
Efficacy and safety of the six-dose regimen of artemether-lumefantrine in pediatrics with uncomplicated Plasmodium falciparum malaria: A pooled analysis of individual patient data, M. Makanga, Zul Premji, C. Falade, J. Karbwang, E.A. Mueller, K. Andriano, P. Hunt, and P.I. De Palacios
Efficacy of oral and intravenous artesunate in male Tanzanian adults with Plasmodium falciparum malaria and in vitro susceptibility to artemisinin, chloroquine, and mefloquine, M.H. Alin, C.M. Kihamia, A. Bjorkman, B.A. Bwijo, Z. Premji, G.J.B. Mtey, and M. Ashton
Eight key household practices of Integrated management of childhood illnesses (IMCI) amongst mothers of children aged 6 to 59 months in Gambat, Sindh, Pakistan, Ajmal Agha, Muhammad Younus, Muhammed Masood Kadir, Sajid Ali, and Zafar Fatmi
Elderly patients and their health in Pakistan: current status, issues, challenges and opportunities, Waris Qidwai and Tabinda Ashfaq
Elevated Chemerin Levels in Pakistani Men: An Interrelation with Metabolic Syndrome Phenotypes, Syeda Sadia Fatima, Kiymet Bozaoglu, Rehana Rehman, Faiza Alam, and Abdul Shakoor Memon
Emergency and trauma care in Pakistan: a cross-sectional study of healthcare levels., Junaid Abdul Razzak, Syed M. Baqir, Uzma Rahim Khan, David Heller, Junaid Bhatti, and Adnan A. Hyder
Emergency department deaths despite active management: experience from a tertiary care centre in a low-income country, Nadeem U. Khan, Junaid Abdul Razzak, Syed Muhammad Hammad Alam, and Humaid Ahmad
Emergency incisional hernia repair: a difficult problem waiting for a solution, Hasnain Zafar, Masooma Zaidi, Irfan Qadir, and Ayaz Ahmed Memon
Emergency Triage: Extend of our knowledge, Emaduddin Siddiqui
Emerging issues in adolescent healthcare : an urgent call for action, Waris Qidwa and Tabinda Ashfaq Ashfaq
Encyclopaedias about Muslim Civilisations, Aptin Khanbaghi
Endovascular approach as primary treatment for traumatic carotid cavernous fistula: local experience from Pakistan, Rana Shoaib Hamid, Tanveer Ul Haq, Basit Salam, Muhammad Shahzad Shamim, and Syed Faraz Kazim
Engaging general practitioners in public–private mix tuberculosis DOTS program in an urban area in Pakistan need for context-specific approach, Amin Pethani, Mubashir Zafar, Adeel Ahmed Khan, Unaib Rabbani Sana, Sana Ahmed, and Zafar Fatmi
Enhanced T-helper 2 lymphocyte responses: immune mechanism of Helicobacter pylori infection, Xue-Gong Fan, Javed Yakoob, XJ Fan, and PWN Keeling
Enhancement of critical thinking in curriculum design and delivery: A randomized controlled trial for educators, Raisa Gul, Shanaz Cassum, Azra Ahmad, Shehla Khan, Tanveer Saeed, and Yasmin Parpio
Enhancing Educators’ skills for promoting Critical Thinking in their classroom discourses: A randomized control trial, Raisa Gul, Shehla Khan, Azra Ahmad, Shanaz Cassum, Tanveer Saeed, Yasmin Parpio, Joanne Profetto- McGrath, and Donald Schopflocher
Enhancing learning using technology, Naveed Yousuf, Kulsoom Ghias, Azra Naseem, and Bushra Moiz
Enhancing patients safety by minimizing window period donations, Bushra Moiz
Enhancing the implementation of regular verbal feedback to residents through structured faculty training workshops, Muhammad Tariq
Ensuring the quality of health care providers, John Norcini
Epidemiological review of head and neck cancers in Karachi, Yasmin Bhurgri, Asif Bhurgri, Ahmed Usman, Shahid Pervez, Naila Kayani, Imtiaz Bashir, Rashida Ahmed, and Sheema H. Hasan
Epidemiology of acute respiratory tract infections among young children in Kenya, Ezekiel Wafula, F.E. Ouyango, W.M. Mirra, William Macharia, I. Wamola, J.O. Ndiuya-Achola, R. Agwanda, and J. Musia
Epidemiology of Ocular Malignancies in Karachi, Yasmin Bhurgri, Hadi Bhurgri, Ahmed Usman, Naveen Faridi, Jawaid Malik, Rehan Puri, Mehek Mirza, Asif Bhurgri, Rashida Ahmed, Suhail Muzaffar, Naila Kayani, Shahid Pervez, Sheema H. Hasan, and Akber Haider Soomro
Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor (EGFR) as a Prognostic Marker: an Immunohistochemical Study on 315 Consecutive Breast Carcinoma Patients, S. A. Aziz, Shahid Pervez, N. Kayani, M. H. Rahbar, and S. Khan
Equity in healthcare: status, barriers, and challenges, Waris Qidwai, Tabinda Ashfaq, Tawfik A M Khoja, Ketki Merchant, Anthony Seneviratne, Ayman Ekram Fahim, Assad Al-Arafah, Abid Hussain, Brenda L. Lovell, Bill Cayley, Christos Lionis, Faisal A. Alnasir, Hakan Yaman, Joyce Kenkre, Lesley Pocock, Lorne Lorne Becker, Marc Jamoulle, Mohamed Sayed Hussein, Nabil Qureshi, Olayinka Ayankogbe, and Sung Sunwoo
Eradicating child labour in Pakistan, Nilofar Vazir and Yasmeen Mehboob Meghani
Erratum to "Variant merozoite protein expression is associated with erythrocyte invasion phenotypes in Plasmodium falciparum isolates from Tanzania" [Mol. Biochem. Parasitol. 149 (2006) 208-215] (DOI:10.1016/j.molbiopara.2007.01.007), A.K. Bei, C.D. Membi, J.C. Rayner, M. Mubi, B. Ngasala, A.A. Sultan, Z. Premji, and M.T. Duraisingh
Estrogen receptor alpha-negative and progesterone receptor-positive breast cancer: lab error or real entity?, Jawad Kiani, Afrasyab Khan, Hina Khawar, Afrasyab Shuaib, and Shahid Pervez
Ethics and Health Professions Education, Sohail Amir Ali Bawani, Murad Musa Khan, and Hamid Dawood
Ethnographies of Islam : Ritual Performances and Everyday Practices, Baudouin Dupret, Thomas Pierret, Paulo G. Pinto, and Kathryn Spellman-Poots
Evaluating an elective in Health Professions Education, Tabassum Zehra
Evaluation and reinforcement of the correlation of S-phase fraction with nodal metastases, tumor grade and tumor size in breast carcinoma patients in Pakistan, Humayun Bakhtawar, Naureen Munawar Ali, Shaista Khan, Syed Abdul Aziz, Tariq Sliddiqui, and Shahid Pervez
Evaluation of an objective and structured method of assessment of professional skills, Aamir Ijaz
Evaluation of gut modulatory and bronchodilator activities of Amaranthus spinosus Linn., Mueen Ahmad Chaudhary, Imran Imran, Samra Bashir, Malik Hassan Mehmood, Najeeb -ur Rehman, and Anwar Hassan Gilani
Evaluation of Kilifi epilepsy education programme: a randomized controlled trial, Fredrick Ibinda, Caroline K. Mbuba, Symon M. Kariuki, Eddie Chengo, Anthony K. Ngugi, Rachael Odhiambo, Brett Lowe, Greg Fegan, Julie A. Carter, and Charles R. Newton
Evaluation of postgraduate diploma in bioethics program, Shahid Shamim
Evaluation of resident’s educational quality in university hospitals in AHVAZ with use of EFQM Model in 2011, Banidavoodi Shohreh
Evolutionary journey of the Gc protein (vitamin D-binding protein) across vertebrates, Shaheena Anwar, Mohammed Perwaiz Iqbal, Shamshad Zarina, and Zulfiqar A. Bhutta
Exaggerating and retraining factors leading to migraine incidence, Sadaf A, Shamoon N, Rida N, Huma K, and Javeria I
Experience of caregivers with the survivors of Hepatitis C, Noureen Shehzad Jiwani, Raisa B. Gul, and Rubina Sultan
Experience of nurses with using eHealth in Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan: a qualitative study in primary and secondary healthcare, Saleema Gulzar, Shariq Khoja, and Afroz Sajwani
Experiences and Perceptions of Patients Living With Hepatitis C in Karachi, Pakistan, Noureen Shehzad Jiwani, Raisa Begum Gul, Asho Ali, Mohammad Salih, and Mehnaz Hanzala
Exploration of in vivo efficacy of artemether-lumefantrine against uncomplicated Plasmodium falciparum malaria in under fives in Tabora region, Tanzania, D. Joseph, A.M. Kabanywanyi, R. Hulser, Zul Premji, O.M.S. Minzi, and K. Mugittu
Exploring Adolescent Reproductive Health Knowledge, Perceptions, and Behavior, Among Students of Non-Government Secondary Schools Supported by BRAC Mentoring Program in Rural Bangladesh, Bachera Aktar, Malabika Sarker, and Andrew Jenkins
Exploring leadership practices in rural context of a developing country, Ali Nawab
Exploring leadership practices of principals of government elementary colleges of education in Pakistan, Zubeda Bana and Jan-e-Alam Khaki
Exploring reflective dialogue as a strategy for teacher development, Jane F. A. Rarieya
Exploring successes and challenges in implementing AKU-EB based portfolio assessment in lower secondary schools situated in Karachi, Syed Anwar Ali Shah
Exploring teachers' and students’ experiences about the use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) in teaching and learning science, Kousar Khush Wali
Exploring teaching styles in an undergraduate medical college following traditional curriculum in Pakistan, Syed Danish Haseen Ahmed and Syed Muhammed Mubeen.
Exploring the contribution of general self-efficacy to the use of self-care symptom management strategies by people living with HIV infection, Inge B. Corless, Dean Wantland, Kenn M. Kirksey, Patrice K. Nicholas, Sarie Human, John Arudo, Maria Rosa, Yvette Cuca, Sue Willard, Mary Jane Hamilton, Carmen Portillo, Elizabeth Sefcik, Linda Robinson, Cathy Bain, Shanaz Moezzi, Mary Maryland, Emily Huang, and William L. Holzemer
Exploring the differences in biology achievements of secondary school students across school systems and gender in Chitral, Rukhsana Ahmad
Exploring the differences in chemistry achievements of secondary school students across school system and gender in Quetta, Pakistan, Muhammad Alamgeer
Exploring the experiences of the appraisers and the appraisees about performance appraisal, Muhammad Yousaf
Expression of Matrix Gla Protein in MDCK cells exposed to Oxalates, Calcium Oxalate Monohydrate and Hydroxyapatite crystals, Aslam Khan, Anwar Hassan Gilani, and Saeed R. Khan
Expression of mismatch repair proteins in colorectal cancer at Aga Khan University Hospital, Nairobi, Charles M. Wahome
Expression of M. tuberculosis-induced suppressor of cytokine signaling (SOCS) 1, SOCS3, FoxP3 and secretion of IL-6 associates with differing clinical severity of tuberculosis, Kiran I. Masood, Martin E. Rottenberg, Naseem Salahuddin, Muhammad Irfan, Nisar Rao, Berit Carow, Muniba Islam, Rabia Hussain, and Zahra Hasan
Expression of pS2 in prostate cancer correlates with grade and Chromogranin A expression but not with stage, Hammad Ather, Farhat Abbas, Nuzhat Faruqui, M Israr, and Shahid Pervez
Extracranial Meningioma: an Unusual Presentation of a Mass Over Inner Canthus of Left Eye, Nasir Ali, Mubasher Ikram, Tahir Shafi Khan, Syed Athar Enam, Abdul Qadir Jangda, and Farrok Karsan
Facial Nerve Palsy Unusual Complication of Percutaneous Angiography and Emoblization for Juvenile Angiofibroma, Mubasher Ikram, Kamaluddin Khan, Moazzam Murad, and Tanveer UI Haq
Factors Associated within 28 Days In-Hospital Mortality of Patients with Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome, Nadia Sharif, Muhammad Irfan, Javaid Hussain, and Javaid Khan
Factors influencing adherence to referral advice following pre-referral treatment with artesunate suppositories in children in rural Tanzania, Daudi Simba, Marian Warsame, Omari Kimbute, Deodatus Kakoko, Max Petzold, Goran Tomson, Zul Premji, and Melba Gomes
Factors that act as facilitators and barriers to nurse leaders' participation in health policy development, Nilufa Jivraj Shariff
Factors That Affect Implementation of Web-based Faculty Evaluation Forms: Residents' Perspectives from a Developing Country, S H. Ibrahim, Syeda Kauser Ali, and S Sadaf
Faculty and patient evaluations of radiology residents' communication and interpersonal skills, Naila Nadeem, Abdul Mueed Zafar, Muhammad Nadeem Ahmad, and Rukhsana Wamiq Zuberi
Faculty Members as Students in the Same Institution: Implications for the Learning Environment, Raisa B. Gul, Rubina Barolia, and Salima M. Meherali
Falls in elderly people: frequency, risk factors and risk assessment (FAR Study), Taha Nafees, Fatima Tariq, Anum Mustafa, Sehrish Munir, and Mehreen Yaseen
Family medicine: a brief review of its history and concepts and its relevance to Pakistan, Rukhsana Wamiq Zuberi
Family medicine postgraduate training in Pakistan, Cynthia Lawrence Haq, Asma Fozia Qureshi, Rukhsana Wamiq Zuberi, S. N. Bazmi Inam, and John H. Bryant
Family systems: perceptions of elderly patients and their attendents presenting at a university hospital in Karachi, Pakistan, Ahmed Itrat, Ather Mohammed Taqui, Fahd Qazi, and Waris Qidwai
Female education in Pakistan, Khush Funer Murtaza
Fiber-free white flour with fructose offers a better model of metabolic syndrome, Faridah Amin and Anwar Hassan Gilani
Fiberoptic Intubation in a Paediatric Patient with Severe Temporomandibular Joint (TMJ) Ankylosis, Ali Asghar, Faisal Shamim, and Asiyah Aman
Fibromyalgia syndrome: an overview of pathophysiology, diagnosis and management, Firdous Jahan, Kashmira Nanji, Waris Qidwai, and Rizwan Qasim
Fight against chronic diseases (High blood pressure, Stroke, Diabetes and Cancer) in Pakistan; cost-effective interventions, Mohammad Wasay and Abdul Jabbar
Fine Needle Aspiration Cytology (FNAC) in the Management of Thyroid Pathology - The Aga Khan University Hospital Experience, Mubasher Ikram, Jamil Hyder, Sohail Muzaffar, and Sheema H. Hasan
First report of NDM-1-producing acinetobacter baumannii in East Africa, Gunturu Revathi, Kristopher L. Siu, Po-Liang Lu, and Li-Yueh Huang
Flow cytometric analysis of childhood leukemias, R. Z. Yusuf, Shahid Pervez, S. A. Aziz, and M. Khurshid
Flow cytometric and demographic analysis of t cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia in Pakistani population., M R. Khawaja, S S. Allana, N N. Akbaral, S N. Adil, M. Khurshid, and Shahid Pervez
Folinic acid protects against suppression of growth by Methotrexate in mice, M. Perwaiz Iqbal, Fakhara Sultana, Naseema Mehboobali, and Shahid Pervez
Follicular Dendritic Cell Sarcoma of Lymph Node - a Rare Entity, Safoorah Khalid, Nausheen Yaqoob, and Shahid Pervez
Food for thought: Eathing for the baby & you, Cassandra Fernandes Faria
Foot dimensions as a tool for gender determination in Kenyan adults, Maureen W. Waithaka
Four-country surveillance of intestinal intussusception and diarrhoea in children, Shally Awasthi, Girdhar Agarwal, Vikas Mishra, Vijay Laxmi Nag, Hesham Fathey El Sayed, Antonio Da Cunha, Alvaro Madeiro, Dipty Jain, William Macharia, James Ndung'u, Saumya Awasthi, and Ashish Wakhlu
Four year experience of sarcoma of soft tissues and bones in a tertiary care hospital and review of literature, Tayyaba Z. Ansari, Nehal Masood, Asra Parekh, Rabab Z. Jafri, Syed N. Niamatullah, Adnan A. Zaidi, and Masood Umer
Fragmentation of medical care: issues, challenges, and opportunities, Waris Qidwai
Frequency and Characteristics of Breast lymphomas presenting to a tertiary care hospital, Pakistan, Nausheen Yaqoob, Shahid Pervez, Naila Kayani, Rashida Ahmed, Zubair Ahmed, and Sheema Hasan
Frequency and Distribution of Endodontically Treated Teeth, Hina Ahmed, Durr e. Sadaf, and Munawar Rahman
Frequency and predisposing factors of pharyngocutaneous fistula after total laryngectomy, Asif Ali Arain, Mubasher Ikram, Shabbir Akhtar, Muhammad Shaheryar Ahmed Rajput, Mohammad Adeel, and Moaz Maqbool Choudhary
Frequency of dementia in elderly population in Karachi, Osama Shakeel
Frequency of irritable bowel syndrome in college students., Wasim Jafri, Javed Yakoob, Nadim Jafri, Muhammad Islam, and Qazi Masroor Ali
Frequency of NSAID induced peptic ulcer disease, Saeed Hamid, Javed Yakoob, Wasim Jafri, Shanul Islam, Shahab Abid, and Muhammad Islam
Frequency of primary solid malignant neoplasms in both sexes, as seen in our practice, Zubair Ahmad, Najamul Sahar Azad, Nausheen Yaqoob, Akhtar Husain, Aamir Ahsan, Ambreen Nasir Khan, Rashida Ahmed, Naila Kayani, Shahid Pervez, and Sheema H. Hassan
Frequency of retinopathy of prematurity in premature neonates with a birth weight below 1500 grams and a gestational age less than 32 weeks: a study from a tertiary care hospital in a lower-middle income country, Arjumand Sohaila, Shiyam Sunder Tikmani, Iqtidar Ahmed Khan, Huba Atiq, Ali Syed Muhammad Akhtar, Prem Kumar, and Kishwer Kumar
From Traditional To Integrated Curriculum, Rehan Ahmed Khan and Rahila Yasmeen
Functional and Clinical Outcome of Ileal (Studer) Neo-bladder Reconstruction: Single Centre Experience from Pakistan., Syed M. Nazim, M Hammad Ather, and Farhat Abbas
Furazolidone, Co-amoxiclav, Colloidal Bismuth Subcitrate, and Esomeprazole for patients who failed to eradicate Helicobacter pylori with triple therapy, Z Abbas, Javed Yakoob, Shahab Abid, Wasim Jafri, Muhammad Islam, Zahid Azam, and Imran Hilal
Gap between theoretical and practical knowledge of basic medical procedures in medical students of D.U.H.S., Sidra Mumtaz, Huzaifa Dawood, Anam Hareem, and Shaikh Hamiz ul Fawwad
Gastrointestinal, Liver and Biliary Tract Pathology: A Histopathological and Epidemiological Perspective from Pakistan with a Review of the Literature, Zubair Ahmad, Huma Arshad, Saira Fatima, Romana Idrees, Nasir Ud Din, Rashida Ahmed, Arsalan Ahmed, Aisha Memon, Khurram Minhas, Muhammad Arif, Samia Fatima, Saroona Haroon, Shahid Pervez, Sheema Hasan, and Naila Kayani
Gastrointestinal stromal tumors: a demographic, morphologic and immunohistochemical study, F Rauf, Y Bhurgri, and Shahid Pervez
Genealogy and Knowledge in Muslim Societies, Sarah Bowen Savant and Helena de Felipe
General Anaesthesia for Emergency Caesarian Section in a Patient with Eisenmenger's Syndrome and Pre-eclampsia, Aziza M. Hussain, Samina Ism Ali, and Rehana S. Kamal
Genetic and phenotype changes following in vitro interactions between Helicobacter pylori strains, Javed Yakoob, Xuegong Fan, Guoling Hu, and Zheng Zhang
Genetics of Non-Syndromic Autosomal Recessive Mental Retardation, Bushra Afroze and Bushra Chaudhry
Giant cell reparative granuloma of temporal bone: Case report of a 62-year-old male, Muhammad Waqas, Naeem Sultan Ali, Muhammad Zubair Tahir, Syed Ather Enam, Zeeshan-ud-din, and Mubasher Ikram
Giardiasis in patients with dyspeptic symptoms, Javed Yakoob, Wasim Jafri, Shahab Abid, Nadim Jafri, Saeed Hamid, Hasnain Ali Shah, Lubna Rizvi, Muhammad Islam, and Hizbullah Shaikh
Ginger attenuates acetylcholine-induced contraction and Ca2+ signaling in murine airway smooth muscle cells., Muhammad N. Ghayur, Anwar Hassan Gilani, and Luke J. Janssen
Global burden of stroke and challenges for South Asia, Dr Jeyaraj Durai Pandian
Global/colonial designs, school knowledge production, and students’ cultural identities: A critical ethnographic perspective from Pakistan, Al-Karim Datoo
Global competencies in family medicine, William E. Cayley, Lesley Pocock, Victor Inem, Mohsen Rezaeian, and Waris Qidwai
Golden Proportion in Visual Dental Smile in Pakistani Population: A Pilot Study, Fahad Umer, Farhan Raza Khan, and Amna Khan
Graduate Students’ Perceptions of Written Feedback at a Private University in Pakistan, Lubna Ghazal, Raisa Gul, Mehnaz Hanzala, Tansy Jessop, and Ambreen Tharani
Growing burden of neurological diseases in Pakistan � need for a national health survey, Mohammad Wasay and Shaukat Ali
Growing burden of stroke in Pakistan: a review of progress and limitations, Mubashirah Hashmi, Maria Khan, and Mohammad Wasay
Gut modulator effects of Conyza bonariensis explain its traditional use in constipation and diarrhea, I A. Bukhari, A J. Shah, R A. Khan, S A. Meo, A Khan, and A H. Gilani
Gut modulatory and antiplatelet activities of Viscum cruciatum, Anwar Hassan Gilani, Mehmood MH, Khan A, Janbaz KH, and Saeed SA
Habitat characterization and spatial distribution of Anopheles sp. mosquito larvae in Dar es Salaam (Tanzania) during an extended dry period, M.A. Sattler, D. Mtasiwa, M. Kiama, Zul Premji, M. Tanner, G.F. Killeen, and C. Lengeler
Haemorrhagic strokes in pregnancy and puerperium, Maria Khan and Mohammad Wasay
Health and needs assessment of geriatric patients: results of a survey at a teaching hospital in Karachi, Syed Nabeel Zafar, Hammad Ashraf Ganatra, Sarah Tehseen, and Waris Qidwai
Health and research in Pakistan, Naeem Jafarey, Nighat Huda, and Rukhsana Zuberi
Healthcare delivery system improvements: a way forward to improve health in developing countries and Pakistan, Waris Qidwai
Health care personnel and workplace violence in the emergency departments of a volatile metropolis:Results from Karachi, Pakistan., Waleed Zafar, Emaduddin Siddiqui, Kiran Ejaz, Muhammad Umer Shehzad, Uzma Rahim Khan, Seemin Jamali, and Junaid Abdul Razzak
Health care staff’s perceptions regarding importance of hand washing practices, Iftikhar Ahmad, Farida Himat Khan, Zaheer Ahmad, and Shahzia Aslam
Helicobacter pylori cagA and vacA cytotoxin genes in Changsha, China, Xue-Gong Fan, Xiao-Ning Peng, Yan Huang, Javed Yakoob, and Zhi-Ming Wang
Helicobacter pylori-induced lipid peroxidation in peripheral blood lymphocytes, Xue-Gong Fan, Javed Yakoob, Andrew Chua, Xue-J. Fan, and Paul W.N Keeling
Helicobacter pylori infection and micronutrient deficiencies., Javed Yakoob, Wasim Jafri, and Shahab Abid
Helicobacter pylori infection in children: population-based age-specific prevalence and risk factors in a developing country., Wasim Jafri, Javed Yakoob, Shahab Abid, S. Siddiqui, Safia Awan, and S Q. Nizami
Helicobacter species ribosomal DNA recovered from the liver tissue of chinese patients with primary hepatocellular carcinoma., Xue-Gong Fan, Xiao-Ning Peng, Yan Huang, Javed Yakoob, Zhi-Ming Wang, and Yong-Ping Chen
Helping an ELT teacher in assessing students' speaking skills: An action research, Qurban Ali
Hemoglobin concentration in children in a malaria holoendemic area is determined by cumulated Plasmodium falciparum parasite densities, H. Ekvall, Zul Premji, S. Bennett, and A. Bjorkman
Heparin in the treatment of Cerebral Venous Thrombosis, Saad Shafqat, Ayeesha K. Kamal, and Mohammad Wasay
Hepatitis B and C: prevalence and risk factors associated with seropositivity among children in Karachi, Pakistan, Wasim Jafri, Nadim Jafri, Javed Yakoob, Muhammad Islam, Syed Farhan Ali Tirmizi, Tazeen Jafar, Saeed Akhtar, Saeed Hamid, Hasnain Ali Shah, and Sheikh Qamaruddin Nizami
Higher IL-10 levels are associated with less effective clearance of Plasmodium falciparum parasites, E. Hugosson, S.M. Montgomery, Zul Premji, M. Troye-Blomberg, and A. Bjorkman
Highlight on childhood lymphomas., William Macharia
Histological pattern of central nervous system neoplasms, Z. Ahmed, S. Muzaffar, Naila Kayani, Shahid Pervez, A. S. Husainy, and S. H. Hasan
Hi-Tea, 17th National Health Sciences Research Symposium
HIV-1 progression links with viral genetic variability and subtype, and patient's HLA type: analysis of a Nairobi-Kenyan cohort, S. H. Abidi, A. Shahid, Lakhani L. S., R. Shah, N. Okinda, P. Ojwang, F. Abbas, S. Rowland-Jones, and S. Ali
HIV-1 progression links with viral genetic variability and subtype, and patient's HLA type: analysis of a Nairobi-Kenyan cohort., Syed Hani Abidi, Aniqa Shahid, Laila S. Lakhani, Reena Shah, Nancy Okinda, Peter Ojwang, Farhat Abbas, and Sarah Rowland-Jones
HIV-1 subtype A Gag variability and epitope evolution., Syed Hani Abidi, Marcia L. Kalish, Farhat Abbas, Sarah Rowland-Jones, and Syed Ali
Home based care of palliative patients in Karachi: first experience from Pakistan, Dileep Kumar
Home injury risks to young children in Karachi, Pakistan: a pilot study., Uzma Rahim Khan, Aruna Chandran, Nukhba Zia, Cheng-Ming Huang, Sarah Stewart De Ramirez, Asher Feroze, Adnan Ali Hyder, and Junaid Abdul Razzak
How effective is the local anesthetic infiltration of pin sites prior to application of head clamps: A prospective observational cohort study of hemodynamic response in patients undergoing elective craniotomy, Ayesha Arshad, Muhammad Shahzad Shamim, Muhammad Waqas, Hina Enam, and Syed Ather Enam
How we developed a bioethics theme in an undergraduate medical curriculum, Kulsoom Ghias, Syeda Kauser Ali, Kausar S. Khan, Robyna Khan, Murad M. Khan, Arshi Farooqui, and Parvez Nayani
Humanities in the medical curriculum, Rukhsana Ali
Human papillomavirus infection in oral squamous cell carcinomas: correlation with histologic variables and survival outcome in a high risk population, S. M.A. Ali, M. S. Awan, S. Ghaffar, I. Salahuddin I. Salahuddin, S. Khan, V. Mehraj, and Shahid Pervez
Human papillomavirus subtype 16 is common in Pakistani women with cervical carcinoma, Saeed Khan, Nadeem N. Jaffer, Mohammad Nasherwan Khan, Mohammad A. Rai, Majid Shafiq, Adnan Ali, Shahid Pervez, Nusrat Khan, Aliya Aziz, and Syed H. Ali
Human resource inequalities at the base of India's public health care system, Saseendran Pallikadavath, Abhishek Singh, Reuben Ogollah, Tara Dean, and William Stones
Hypertensive crisis, burden, management, and outcome at a tertiary care center in Karachi., Aysha Almas, Ayaz Ghouse, Ahmed Raz Raza Iftikhar, and Munawar Khursheed
Identification of myeloperoxidase, alpha-defensin and calgranulin in calcium oxalate renal stones., Shamim Mushtaq, Anwar Ali Siddiqui, Zulfiqar Ali Naqvi, Ahmed Rattani, Jamsheer J Talati, Carina Palmberg, and Jawed Shafqat
Idiopathic epilepsy of childhood and potassium ion channels, Alper I. Dai and Mohammad Wasay
If you don’t put your finger in, you might put your foot in it, Ghulam Mustafa
Illuminating the dark side-vitamin D status in different localities of Karachi, Romaina Iqbal, Lena Jafri, Ali Haroon, and Aysha Habib Khan
Imminent epidemic of diabetes mellitus in Pakistan: issues and challenges for health care providers, Waris Qidwai and Tabinda Ashfaq
Immunohistochemical cathepsin-D expression in breast cancer: correlation with established pathological parameters and survival, Syed Aziz, Shahid Pervez, Shaista Khan, Naila Naila, and Muhammad Rahbar
Immunophenotypic Characterization of High Grade Pleomorphic Sarcomas: a demographic and immunohistochemical study in a major referral center of Pakistan, H Shah and Shahid Pervez
Impact of assignment of dedicated research faculty on thesis completion amongst postgraduate pediatric trainees, Farah Qamar
Impact of continuing medical education activities conducted by pharmaceutical companies on the clinical practice of doctors of Karachi, Muhammad Adnan Kanpurwala
Impact of peak/mid luteal estradiol on pregnancy outcome after intracytoplasmic sperm injection, Rehana Rehman, Zahir Hussain, Huma Zahir, and Rakhshaan Khan
Impact of public examination system on teaching and learning in Pakistan, Amin Rehmani
Impact of training in clinical and microscopy diagnosis of childhood malaria on antimalarial drug prescription and health outcome at primary health care level in Tanzania: A randomized controlled trial, B. Ngasala, M. Mubi, M. Warsame, M.G. Petzold, A.Y. Massele, L.L. Gustafsson, G. Tomson, Zul Premji, and A. Bjorkman
Impact of Unplanned Excision on Prognosis of Patients with Extremity Soft Tissue Sarcoma, Hafiz Muhammad Umer, Masood Umer, Irfan Qadir, Nadeem Abbasi, and Nehal Masood
Impact of water and sanitation and health education interventions on health and hygiene behaviors: a study from a northern Pakistani village, Aysha Zahidie and Fauziah Rabbani
Implementation of the INTERGROWTH-21st Project in Kenya, M Carvalho, S Vinayak, R Ochieng, V Choksey, N Musee, W Stones, H E. Knight, and L Cheikh Ismail
Implementing a revised bioethics curriculum at the Aga Khan University Medical College (AKU-MC), Hamid Dawood
Implementing indirect error correction strategy to enhance grade 8 ESL learners' written compositions, Ferkhanda Jabeen
Implementing Institutional Repository (IR) system in a multi-campus international university: Nuts and bolts, Ashraf Sharif
Importance of clinical toxicology teaching and its impact in improving, Nadeem Ullah Khan, Jabeen Fayyaz, Uzma Rahim Khan, and Asher Feroze
Improvement in patient care through stat reporting from emergency department satellite laboratory, Lubna Khaleeq
Improving diabetic retinopathy screening in Africa: Patient satisfaction with teleophthalmology versus ophthalmologist-based screening, K. Kurji, D. Kiage, C. J. Rudnisky, and K. F. Damji
Improving students' English reading comprehension skills through Reciprocal Teaching Approach (RTA), Syed Afiat Shah
Incidence and outcome of small for gestational age fetuses: An experience from a secondary care hospital, Riffat Bano, Nousheen Asim, Ammara Mushtaq, Mehreen Adhi, and Noureen Afzal
Incidence of cancer esophagus in Quetta and Karachi, Pakistan, Yasmin Bhurgri, Asif Bhurgri, Akbar Shah Shah, Naveen Faridi, Hadi Bhurgri, Ahmed Usman, Jamil Mirza, Jawaid Malik, Suhail Muzaffar, Naila Kayani, Shahid Pervez, and Sheema H. Hasan
Incidence, patterns and severity of reported unintentional injuries in Pakistan for persons five years and older: results of the National Health Survey of Pakistan 1990–94, Zafar Fatmi, Wilbur C. Hadden, Junaid A. Razzak, Huma Qureshi, Adnan A. Hyder, and Gregory Pappas
Incidental MRI lesions suggestive of multiple sclerosis in asymptomatic patients in Karachi, Pakistan, Mohammad Wasay, F. Rizvi, Muhammad Azeemuddin, A. Yousuf, and S Fredrikson
Incorporating endoscope in middle ear surgery, Shehzad Ghaffar, Mubasher Ikram, and Ahsan Raza
Increase awareness to a street school children: a project of public health intervention by nursing students, Nafisa Iqbal Bardaie
Increasing health care costs and its adverse impact on healthcare, Waris Qidwai
Increasing incidence of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma in Karachi, 1995-2002, Yasmin Bhurgri, Shahid Pervez, Asif Bhurgri, Naveen Faridi, Ahmed Usman, Kazi Lag, Rashida Ahmed, Naila Kayani, and Sheema H. Hasan
Inculcating aspects of fluency and appropriacy for enhancement of oral communication skills through Task-Based Instruction (TBI), Syed Dilshad Hussain Shah
Indoor air pollution (PM2.5) due to secondhand smoke in selected hospitality and entertainment venues of Karachi, Pakistan, Asaad Ahmed Nafees, Tahir Taj, Muhammad Masood Kadir, Zafar Fatmi, Kiyoung Lee, and Nalini Sathiakumar
Infiltrating ductal carcinoma breast with central necrosis closely mimicking ductal carcinoma in situ (comedo type): a case series, Shahid Pervez and Hassan Khan
Influence of consecutive-day blood sampling on polymerase chain reaction-adjusted parasitological cure rates in an antimalarial-drug trial conducted in Tanzania, A. Martensson, J. Ursing, M.I. Veiga, L. Wiklund, C. Membi, S.M. Montgomery, Zul Premji, A. Farnert, A. Bjorkman, and Billy Ngasala
Informed Consent and Cultural Diversity, Rehana S. Kamal, Samina Ismail, Salman Sabir, and Saeed uz Zafar
Initiatives for patient safety and accountability, Sameena Shaikh
In Search of Relevance and Sustainability of Educational Change : An International Conference at Aga Khan University Institute for Educational Development, Aga Khan University, Institute for Educational Development
Insecticide-treated bed nets in control of malaria in Africa, C. Shiff, Zul Premji, and J. Minjas
Insight into mechanism underlying the medicinal use of Cydonia Oblonga in Gut and airways disorders, Khalid Hussain Janbaz, Arham Shabbir, Malik Hassan Mehmood, and Anwarul Hassan Gilani
Insight into the possible mechanism of antidiarrheal and antispasmodic activities of piperine, Taqvi Sih, Shah Aj, and Anwar Hassan Gilani
Insights on the effects of patient perceptions and awareness on ambulance usage in Karachi, Pakistan., Aruna Chandran, Kiran Ejaz, Rabia Karani, Syed Muhammad Baqir, Junaid Abdul Razzak, and Adnan Hyder
Integrated Objective Structured Clinical Examination (OSCE): experience at KIST Medical College,Nepal, Rano Mal Piryani
Integrating patient safety and medical errors in undergraduate and postgraduate curricula, Ara Tekian
Integrating professionalism into the curriculum, Valerie Wass
Intellectual wellness awareness: a neglected area in medical universities of Pakistan, Ayesha Saba Naz, Rehana Rehman, Shah Jahan Katpar, and Mehwish Hussain
Interference of cerebrospinal fluid white blood cell counts performed on the Sysmex XT-4000i by yeast and bacteria, G. Omuse and P. Makau
International recognition of accreditation for quality development in medical education, Stefan Lindgren
Interpersonal skills: cornerstone to clinical practice, Sheilla Pinjani and Marie Andrades
Interpretations of Law and Ethics in Muslim Contexts, Aptin Khanbaghi
Interventions to reduce neonatal mortality from neonatal tetanus in low and middle income countries - a systematic review, Adeel Ahmed Khan, Aysha Zahidie, and Fauziah Rabbani
Intestinal, Airway, and Cardiovascular Relaxant Activities of Thymoquinone, Muhammad Nabeel Ghayur, Anwar Hussain Gilani, and Luke Jeffrey Janssen
Intraperitoneal lignocaine (lidocaine) versus bupivacaine after laparoscopic cholecystectomy: Results of a randomized controlled trial, Muhammad Rizwan Khan, Rushna Raza, Syed Nabeel Zafar, Faisal Shamim, Syed Ahsan Raza, Khawaja Muhammad Inam Pal, Hasnain Zafar, Rehman Alvi, Tabish Chawla, and Rizwan Azmi
Introducing diploma of specialist renal nursing program to uplift the standards of care through competency building: an observational study, Fatima Khuwaja and Sumaira Khowaja-Punjwani
Introduction of “Patient-Centered Urdu Communication Course” in undergraduate medical education (UGME), Hamid Dawood
Introduction of patient safety rounds: an economical approach to enhance patient safety culture at a tertiary care hospital at Karachi, Pakistan, Rozina Roshan Essani and Sunesra Punjwani
Intubation in emergency department of a tertiary care hospital in a low-income, Nadeem Ullah Khan, Uzma Rahim Khan, Kiran Ejaz, Humaid Ahmad, Nukhba Zia, and Junaid Abdul Razzak
In vitro and in vivo anthelmintic activity of terminalia arjuna bark, Hafiz Allah Bachaya, Zafar Iqbal, Muhammad Nisar Khan, Abdul Jabbar, Anwar Hassan Gilani, and Islam-ud Din
In vitro efficacy of clinically available drugs against growth and viability of Acanthamoeba castellanii keratitis isolate belonging to the T4 genotype, Abdul Mannan Baig, Junaid Iqbal, and Naveed Ahmed Khan
In vitro susceptibility of Blastocystis hominis isolated from patients with irritable bowel syndrome, Javed Yakoob, Wasim Jafri, Nadim Jafri, Muhammad Islam, and Mohammad Asim Beg
In vivo selection of Plasmodium falciparum parasites carrying the chloroquine-susceptible pfcrt K76 allele after treatment with artemether-lumefantrine in Africa, C. Sisowath, I. Petersen, M.I. Veiga, A. Martensson, Zul Premji, A. Bjorkman, D.A. Fidock, and J.P. Gil
In vivo studies on the bronchodilatory and analgesic activities of Hyoscyamus niger and Aspalathus linearis, Arif-ullah KHAN and Anwar Hassan Gilani
Ionized Calcium Cannot Predict Vitamin D Deficiency, Aysha Habib Khan and Lena Jafri
Ionized Calcium Measurement in Serum and Plasma by Ion Selective Electrodes: Comparison of Measured and Calculated Parameters, Lena Jafri, Aysha Habib Khan, and Saba Azeem
Iron deficiency anaemia in children of a peri-urban health facility, Florence V. Murila, William Macharia, and Ezekiel Wafula
Irritable bowel syndrome and health seeking behaviour in different communities of Pakistan, Wasim Jafri, Javed Yakoob, Nadim Jafri, Muhammad Islam, and Qazi Masroor Ali
Irritable bowel syndrome in health care professionals in Pakistan, Wasim Jafri, Javed Yakoob, Nadim Jafri, Mahesh Maloni, Saeed Hamid, Hasnain Ali Shah, and Shahab Abid
Irritable bowel syndrome: in search of an etiology: role of Blastocystis hominis, Javed Yakoob, Wasim Jafri, Nadim Jafr, Rustam Khan, Muhammad Islam, Mohammad Asim Beg, and Viqar Zaman
Ischemic stroke care - official guidelines from the Pakistan society of Neurology, Ayeesha Kamran Kamal, Ahmed Itrat, Imama Naqvi, Maria Khan, Roomasa Channa, Ismail Khatri, and Mohammad Wasay
Ischemic strokes in Pakistan: observations from the national acute ischemic stroke database, Bhojo A. Khealani, Maria Khan, Muhammad Tariq, Abdul Malik, Alam I. Siddiqi, Safia Awan, and Mohammad Wasay
Ischemic stroke subtypes in Pakistan: The Aga Khan University stroke data bank, N. A. Syed, B. A. Khealani, S. Ali, A. Hasan, H. Brohi, T. Mozaffar, N. Ahmed, A. Hameed, S. M. Baig, and M. Wasay
Islam and the Foundations of Political Power, Ali Abdel Razek, Maryam Loutfi, and Abdou Filali-Ansary
Islam : Between Message and History, Abdelmadjid Charfi, Abdou Filali-Ansary, Sikeena Karmali Ahmed, and David Bond
Isolated cryptococcal osteomyelitis in an immunocompetent patient, Irfan Qadir, Farheen Ali, Umair Zafar Malik, and Masood Umer
Is routine histological evaluation of pediatric hernial sac necessary?, Khurram Siddiqui, Zafar Nazir, Syed Sohail Ali, and Shahid Pervaiz
Issues and challenges in bringing reform in UGME, Rahila Yasmeen
Is surgical spinal decompression for supratentorial GBM symptomatic drop down metastasis warranted? A case report and review of literature, Muhammad Babar Khan, Muhammad Riaz, and Muhammad Ehsan Bari
Is there an association of giardiasis with beta-thalassemia minor?, Javed Yakoob, Wasim Jafri, and Hizbullah Shaikh
Is this patient taking the treatment as prescribed?, Barbara J. Stephenson, Brian H. Rowe, R. Brian Haynes, William Macharia, and Gladys Leon
Is your patient taking treatment as prescribed?, William Macharia
Knowledge and attitudes about health research amongst a group of Pakistani medical students, Hassan Khan, Muhammad RizwanulHaq Khawaja, Abdul Waheed, Muhammad Ameen Rauf, and Zafar Fatmi
Knowledge and beliefs of adolescents regarding sexually transmitted infections and HIV/AIDS in a rural district in Pakistan, Hafsa Raheel, Franklin White, Muhammad Masood Kadir, and Zafar Fatmi
Knowledge and skills in community oriented medical education (COME)self-ratings of medical undergraduates in Karachi, Ayesha Aziz, Ambreen Kazi, Ashraf Jahangeer, and Zafar Fatmi
Knowledge, attitude and misconceptions regarding tuberculosis in Pakistani patients, Javaid Ahmed Khan, Muhammad Irfan, Amna Zaki, Madiha Beg, Syed Fayyaz Hussain, and Nadeem Rizvi
Knowledge, attitude and practice of vitamin supplementation among patients visiting out-patient physicians in a teaching hospital in Karachi, Waris Qidwai, Zahra Aziz Samani, Iqbal Azam, and Saima Lalani
Knowledge, attitudes and beliefs of primary caretakers towards Sickle Cell anaemia in children, William Macharia, A. Shiroya, and Erastus K. Njeru
Knowledge of medical students regarding patient safety and preventing patient mismanagement, Mohammad Hassan Jahangir Khan
Laboratory diagnosis of malaria by village health workers using the rapid manual ParaSight™-F test, Zul Premji, J.N. Minjas, and C.J. Shiff
LARYNGEAL MASK INSERTION - Effect of Age on Hemodynamic Responses -, SAMINA ISMAIL and FAUZIA A. KHAN
Late weaning: the most significant risk factor in the development of iron deficiency anaemia at 1-2 years of age, Niloufer Sultan Ali and Rukhsana Wamiq Zuberi
Leadership in medical education and service, Stefan Lindgren
Leadership in medical education and service, Stefan Lindgren
Leadership practices in early years education: A case study of a private school head teacher in Chitral, Bibi Amina Nigar
Learning is fun, Khush Funer Murtaza
Leiomyosarcoma of theLarynx: a case report, Akbar Abbas, Mubasher Ikram, and Nausheen Yaqoob
Leiomyosarcoma of the maxilla with spinal metastasis: a case report, Mubasher Ikram, I Ahmed, D Ahmed, and YI Ahmed
Lifelong learning: Established concepts and evolving values, Jamsheer Jehangir Talati
Lifestyle Management of Obesity, Romaina Iqbal, Imran Nisar, Sabahat Naz, and Gulshan Bano
List of Participants, AEME Conference 2013 and 16th AKU Symposium
List of Participants, 17th National Health Sciences Research Symposium
Local anaesthetic cream for the alleviation of pain during venepuncture in Tanzanian schoolchidren, U. Hellgren, C.M. Kihamia, Zul Premji, and K. Danielson
Local terminology for febrile illnesses in Bagamoyo District, Tanzania and its impact on the design of a community-based malaria control programme, P.J. Winch, A.M. Makemba, S.R. Kamazima, M. Lurie, G.K. Lwihula, Zul Premji, J.N. Minjas, and C.J. Shiff
Locking compression plate in musculoskeletal oncology 'a friend in need'., Masood Umer, Kashif Abbas, Shahid Khan, and Haroon ur Rashid
Long Term Effectiveness of Cognitive Behavior Therapy for Treatment of Postpartum Depression: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis, Tahira Perveen, Sajid Mahmood, Ibrahim Gosadi, Jaishri Mehraj, and Sana Sadiq Sheikh
Lost in Translation?, Ayesha Bashiruddin and Nilofar Vazir
Low prevalence of the intact cag pathogenicity island in clinical isolates of Helicobacter pylori in Karachi, Pakistan, Javed Yakoob, Wasim Jafri, Zaigham Abbas, Shahab Abid, R. Khan, N. Jafri, and Z. Ahmad
Low rate of recurrence of Helicobacter pylori infection in spite of high clarithromycin resistance in Pakistan, Javed Yakoob, Shahab Abid, Wasim Jafri, Zaigham Abbas, Khalid Mumtaz, Saeed Hamid, and Rashida Ahmed
Lunch, 17th National Health Sciences Research Symposium
Major incidents in Kenya: the case for emergency services development and training, Benjamin Wachira and Wayne Smith
Malaria diagnosis and treatment practices following introduction of rapid diagnostic tests in Kibaha District, Coast Region, Tanzania, M. Mubi, D. Kakoko, B. Ngasala, Zul Premji, S. Peterson, A. Bjorkman, and A. Martensson
Malaria rapid testing by community health workers is effective and safe for targeting malaria treatment: Randomised cross-over trial in Tanzania, M. Mubi, A. Janson, M. Warsame, A. Martensson, K. Kallander, M.G. Petzold, B. Ngasala, G. Maganga, L.L. Gustafsson, A. Massele, G. Tomson, Zul Premji, and A. Bjorkman
Malignant mediastinal mass in children: a single institution experience from a developing country, Matloob Alam
Malignant Smooth Muscle Tumours of Soft Tissue - a demographic and clinicopathological study at a tertiary care hospital, Hamidullah Shah, Yasmin Bhurgri, and Shahid Pervez
Malignant vascular tumors of liver in neonates., Zafar Nazir and Shahid Pervez
Managing conflict in the classroom, Saima Khalid and Syeda Imrana Raza
Managing CPD for patient safety, Janet Grant
Managing data for the international, multicentre INTERGROWTH-21st Project, E O. Ohuma, L Hoch, C Cosgrove, H E. Knight, L Cheikh Ismail, L Juodvirsiene, A T. Papageorghiou, H Al-Jabri, M Domingues, P Gilli, N Kunnawar, N Musee, F Roseman, A Carter, M Wu, and D G. Altman
Managing soft tissue sarcomas in a developing country: are prognostic factors similar to those of developed world?, Irfan Qadir, Masood Umer, Hafiz Muhammad Umer, Nasir uddin, Farrok Karson, and Muhammad Sharoz Rabbani
Maternal genital tract colonisation by Group-B Streptococcus: A hospital based study, Nida Najmi, Rozina Sikandar, Nadeem Faiyaz. Zuberi, and Imtiaz Jehan
Maternal tetanus toxoid vaccination and neonatal mortality in rural North India, A. Singh, S. Pallikadavath, R. Ogollah, and W. Stones
Mature Cystic Teratoma presenting as the largest Mediastinal Tumour ever recorded in the History of Medicine, M. Hussainy, K. Essa, and S. Pervez
Maximizing the clinical experience for nursing students during a pediatric course in HEC/PNC Baccalaureate curriculum in Pakistan: lessons learnt, Jacqueline Maria Dias
Mechanism of neuronal injury in Cerebral Venous Thrombosis, Uzma Usman and Mohammad Wasay
Meckel Gruber Syndrome: Second trimester diagnosis of a case in a non-consanguineous marriage, Areej Alam, Mehreen Adhi, Raffat Bano, Aisha Zubair, and Ammara Mushtaq
Media Coverage, AEME Conference 2013 and 16th AKU Symposium
Media: imposing harmful effects on children, Naila Noorudin
Mediastinal parathyroid adenoma causing primary hyperparathyroidism., Farhat Abbas, Syed Raziuddin Biyabani, Amanullah Memon, and Jamsheer Talati
Medical education and patient safety – the new challenge?, Mohammad Hafizullah
Medical education as a necessitate for field force, Sadaf Ahmed, Shamoon Noushad, and Faiza Ahmed
Medical errors related to look-alike and sound-alike drugs, Samina Ismail, and Arshad Taqi
Medical Ethics: A slow but sustained revolution in Pakistan’s healthcare, Muhammad Shahid Shamim and Muhammad Shahzad Shamim
Medical students’ endeavour to make use of their mental capabilities, Ayesha Saba Naz, Rehana Rehman, and 2Mehwish Hussain
Medication errors at atertiary care hospital: Underlying factors and health care professional experiences, Shirin Badruddin
Medicolegal liability in pathology: an international perspective, Mark R. Wick; Elliott Foucar; Philip W. Allen,; Venancio A.F. Alves; Johannes Bjornsson; Fred Bosman; Andrew W. Churg; Ricardo Drut; Christopher S. Foster; Steffen Hauptmann; Prodromos Hytiroglou; Tseng-tong Kou; Osamu Matsubara; Oscar Nappi; Shahid Pervez; Juan Rosai; Hironobu Sasano; Philippe Vielh; and Bernhard Zelger
Melanotic Neuroectodermal Tumour of Infancy: A Rare Brain Tumour of Childhood, Muhammad Babar Khan, Delvene Soares, Muhammad Zubair Tahir, Rajesh Kumar, Khurram Minhas, and Muhammad Ehsan Bari
Mentoring ethics in postgraduate surgical training: A developing country perspective from Pakistan, Mohsin Azam, Saleha Anwar, M Shahzad Shamim, and Muhammad Waqas
Metastatic signet ring gastric adenocarcinoma presenting with microangiopathic hemolytic anemia., Natasha Ali, Nausheen Kamran, Salman Adil, and Shahid Pervez
Micronutrient and iron supplementation and effective anti-malarial treatment synergistically improve childhood anaemia, H. Ekvall, Zul Premji, and A. Bjorkman
Microsporidial infections due to encephalitozoon intestinalis in non-HIV-infected patients with chronic diarrhoea., Javed Yakoob, Zaigham Abbas, Muhammad Asim Beg, Wasim Jafri, Shagufta Naz, Abdullah Khalid, and Rustam Khan
Midwifery in India and its Roadmap, Manju Chhugani
MIGRATING FOREIGN BODY IN THE THYROID GLAND, AN UNUSUAL CASE, Tatheer Zohra, Mubasher Ikram, Moghira Iqbal, Shabbir Akhtar, and Seyed Akbar Abbas
Migration, medical education, and health care: a view from Pakistan., Jamsheer J Talati and Gregory Pappas
Missing the boat: odds for the patients who leave ED without being seen, Jabeen Fayyaz, Munawar Khursheed, Mohammed Umer Mir, and Amber Mehmood
Mobile endoscopy: a treatment and training model for childhood hydrocephalus, Qureshi M. M, Piquer J., and Young P. H.
Mobile phones: a potential source of infection - a comparative study between health care and the non-health care workers in Karachi, Raza Haider and Syed Muhammad Mubeen
Moral experience and ethical challenges in an emergency department in Pakistan: emergency physicians' perspectives, Waleed Zafar
Morphological pattern of salivary gland tumours, M. S. Gill, S. Muzaffar, I. N. Soomro, Naila Kayani, A. S. Hussainy, Shahid Pervez, and S. H. Hasan
Mosques against malaria, M.S. Mfaume, P.J. Winch, A.M. Makemba, and Zul Premji
Mothers’s education and working status; do they contribute to corrosive poisoning among paediatric patients of Karachi, Pakistan?, Emaduddin Siddiqui, Kiran Ejaz, Sayyeda Ghazala Irfan Kazi, Saif Siddiqui, and Syed Jamal Raza
Multidimensionality of critical thinking: A holistic perspective from multidisciplinary educators in Karachi, Pakistan, Shanaz Hussein Cassum, Joanne Profetto McGrath, Raisa Begum Gul, Ashraf Dilshad, and Kauserali Syeda
Multiple mini interviews (MMI), Valerie Wass, Sheilla Pinjani, and Marie Andrades
Narratives of personal and professional identity construction of teachers of English in the multilingual context of Karachi, Pakistan, Meenaz Shams Hashwani
Neck involvement in early carcinoma of tongue. Is elective neck dissection warranted?, Shabbir Akhtar
Neck Recurrence in Early Carcinoma Tongue, Mubasher Ikram, Sadaf Fatima Jafferbhoy, and Maisam Abbas Shiraz Onali
Need of radiotherapy training program at AKUH, Shoaib Siddiqui
Neonatal sepsis following prolonged rupture of membranes in a tertiary care hospital in Karachi, Pakistan, Muhammad Matloob Alam, Ali Faisal Saleem, Abdul Sattar Shaikh, Owais Munir, and Maqbool Qadir
Neonatal sepsis following prolonged rupture of membranes in a tertiary care hospital of Karachi, Matloob Alam
Networks of learning: Professional associations and the continuing education of teachers, Sikunder Ali Baber, Zakia Sarwar, and Qamar Safdar
Network: TUFH position paper. The ultimate challenge? Higher education for adapting to change and participating in managing change., F Christobal, C E. Engel, and Jamsheer Talati
Neuroimaging of cerebral venous thrombosis, Mohammad Wasay and Muhammad Azeemuddin
Neuroleptic malignant syndrome: need for early diagnosis and therapy, Humaira M. Khan, Nadir A. Syed, Mughis Sheerani, Bhojo Khealani, Ayeesha Kamal, and Mohammad Wasay
Neurological Care in Pakistan: actions are needed, M. Wasay
Neurological involvement in patients with falciparum malaria: frequency and prognostic value, Mohammad Wasay, Asif Taqi, Huma Aziz, Iqbal Azam, and Mohammad Asim Beg
Neurology in Pakistan: Growing burden, low on priority, and a hope to keep alive, Mohammad Wasay and Ismail A. Khatri
Neuropathogenic Escherichia coli K1 does not exhibit proteolytic activities to exert its pathogenicity, Junaid Iqbal, Mehak Rajan, Ruqaiyyah Siddiqu Ruqaiyyah Siddiqu, and Naveed Ahmed Khan
Noncommunicable diseases and injuries: action needed in South Asia too, Ali Khan Khuwaja, Riaz Qureshi, and Zafar Fatmi
Non-Communicable Diseases and Sexual Health, Nausheen Salim and Sikander Sohani
Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma (NHL) in Pakistan, Shahid Pervez
Non-Traumatic Aortic Emergencies - Experience from a Tertiary Care Centre in, Nadeem Khan Ullah Khan, Junaid A. Razzak, Hasanat Sharif, and Saqib Hamid Qazi
'Nuclear grooves' in nodular hidradenoma: frequency and significance of an unrecognized histopatological feature, Amna Khurshid, Nausheen Yaqoob, Hafeez A. Devan, and Shahid Pervez
Nurses, Zeenatkhanu Kanji, Zahra S. Ladhani, and Khairunnisa A. Dhamani
Nursing students experience of clinical practice: A theory practice gap, Sumaira Khowaja-Punjwani and Fatima Khuwaja
Nutritional composition of commonly consumed composite dishes from rural villages in Empangeni, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, K. Spearing, F. Kolahdooz, M. Lukasewich, N. Mathe, Tashmin Khamis, and S. Sharma
Observational study to assess the effectiveness of postoperative pain of patients undergoing elective cesarean section, Samina Ismail,; Khurram Shahzad; and Faraz Faraz
Observer variation in MRI evaluation of patients with suspected lumbar disc herniation and nerve root compression: Comparison of Neuroradiologist and Neurosurgeon's interpretations, Imaad Ur Rehman, Rana Shoaib Hamid, Waseem Akhtar, Rohana Naqi, Muhammad Shahzad Shamim, and Haji Ismail Siddiq
Obstetrical outcome for women with a body mass index ≥ 25Kg/M2, Yasmin Irfana and Saadia Siddiqueb
On admission hypomagnesemia in critically ill children: Risk factors and outcome, Ali Faisal Saleem and Anwarul Haque
Online faculty evaluation by residents in Paediatric residency program, Khadija N Humayun
Online training for Obs Gyne wards staff: K2 medical systems: knowledge in Medicine, perinatal training program, Shaheena Jumani
Orbital Embryonal Rhabdomyosarcomain Karachi (1998-2002), Yasmin Bhurgri, A. Mazhar, H. Bhurgri, A. Usman, J. Malik, A. Bhurgri, R. Ahmed, S. Muzaffar, N. Kayani, Shahid Pervez, and S. H. Hasan
Organising Committee, AEME Conference 2013 and 16th AKU Symposium
Organising Committee, AEME Conference 2013 and 16th AKU Symposium
Organising Committee, 17th National Health Sciences Research Symposium
Organizing Knowledge : Encyclopaedic Activities in the Pre-eighteenth Century Islamic World, Gerhard Endress
Osteochondral Grafting of Knee Joint Using Mosaicplasty, Muhammad Abdul Wajid, Muhammad Idrees Shah, Mohsin e. Azam, and Tashfeen Ahmad
Outcome for hospitalized road trauma patients at a tertiary hospital in Kenya, Hassan Saidi, William Macharia, and John Ating'a
Outliers in educational achievement data: Their potential for the improvement of performance, Tooba Farooqui, Isba Mustafa, and Thomas Christie
Overcrowded emergency departments: a problem looking for solution., Amber Mehmood, Badar Afzal Khan, and Munawar Khursheed
Over prescription of antibiotics for adult pharyngitis is prevalent in developing countries but can be reduced using McIsaac modification of Centor scores: a cross-sectional study., Amber Hanif Palla, Rafeeq Alam Khan, Anwar H. Gilani, and Fawziah Marra
Overuse of antibiotics In children for upper respiratory infections (URIs): A Dilemma, Malika Taufiq and Rukhsana Wamiq Zuberi
Overview, AEME Conference 2013 and 16th AKU Symposium
Overview of surgical management of infectious non-suppurative brain lesions, Muhammad Shahzad Shamim, Syed Ather Enam, Rushna Pervez Ali, Syed Faizan Ali, and Mohammad Wasay
Paan without tobacco: an independent risk factor for oral cancer., Anwar Merchant, Syed S. M. HUSAIN, Mervyn Hosain, Fariyal F. FIKREE, Waranuch PITIPHAT, Amna Rehana SIDDIQUI, Syed J. HAYDER, Mubasher Ikram, Sung-Kiang CHUANG, and Shaikh A. SAEED
Pakistan Cannot Afford Defensive Medicine, Syed Muhammad Baqir
Pakistan - Country Profile of Cancer and Cancer Control 1995-2004, Yasmin Bhurgri, Asif Bhurgri, Sania Nishter, Ashfaq Ahmed, Ahmed Usman, Shahid Pervez, Naila Kayani, Rashida Ahmed, Sheema H. Hassan, Ahmed Riaz, Hadi Bhurgri, and Imtiaz Bashir
Parathyroid apoplexy manifesting as fever of unknown origin., Lubna M. Zuberi, Jamsheer Jehangir Talati, Abdul Jabbar, and Naila Kayani
Parental Awareness and Coverage of Mass Measles Vaccination Drive 2011: Cross-Sectional Survey in the Metropolitan City of Karachi, Pakistan, Asif Raza Khowaja, Sana Sheikh, Ali Faisal Saleem, and Anita KM Zaidi
Parental involvement in ECED classrooms, Khush Funer Murtaza
Participant's Reflections, AEME Conference 2013 and 16th AKU Symposium
Patho-epidemiology of breast cancer in Karachi '1995-1997', Yasmin Bhurgri
Patho-epidemiology of Cancer Cervix in Karachi South, Yasmin Bhurgri, Kauser Nazir, Yasmeen Shaheen, Ahmed Usman, Naveen Faridi, Hadi Bhurgri, Jawaid Malik, Imtiaz Bashir, Asif Bhurgri, Naila Kayani, Shahid Pervez, Sheema H. Hasan, Faridoon Setna, and S MH Zaidi
Patho-epidemiology of lung cancer in Karachi (1995-2002), Yasmin Bhurgri, Asif Bhurgri, Ahmed Usman, Nassar Sheikh, Naveen Faridi, Jawaid Malik, Rasheeda Ahmed, Naila Kayani, Shahid Pervez, and Sheema H. Hasan
Patient attitudes towards physician nonverbal behaviors during consultancy: result from a developing country, Fahad Hanif Khan, Raheela Hanif, Rumina Tabassum, Waris Qidwai, and Kashmira Nanji
Patient empowerment in dose adjustment of premixed insulin, Lubna Meraj
Patient safety: building on opportunities in current MBBS curriculum, Bushra Jamil Ali
Patients at the hands of medical errors: a critical review in the context of Pakistan, Ejaz Ahmad Khan
Patients’ receptiveness for medical students during consultation in outpatient department of a teaching hospital, Muhammad Laiq uz Zaman Khan
Pattern and predictors for respiratory illnesses and symptoms and lung function among textile workers in Karachi, Pakistan, Asaad Ahmed Nafees, Zafar Fatmi, Muhammad Masood Kadir, and Nalini Sathiakumar
Pattern of emergency department visits by elderly patients: study from a tertiary care hospital, Karachi, Jabeen Fayyaz, Munawar Khursheed, Mohammed Umer Mir, and Uzma Rahim Khan
PBL cases: video or paper?, Najia Ghanchi
Pediatric baccalaureate nursing curriculum in Pakistan: strengths, limitations and recommendations, Shela Akbar Ali Hirani
Pediatric Dentistry Training for Dentists in Pakistan, Farhan Raza Khan, Sadia Mahmud, and Munawar Rahman
Pediatric oncology nursing education initiatives at Children Cancer Hospital, Karachi, Pakistan; local problem –local solution, M Shamvil Ashraf
Perception & barriers regarding self-signed & relative signed informed consent, Firdous Jahan
Perception of final year undergraduate medical students towards family medicine in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, Eric Luggar Aghan
Perceptions of undergraduate medical students with regard to case based learning in Pathology (a non-traditional learning approach), Rizwan Hashim, Mohsin Shafi, and Muhammad Ayyub
Perinatal women's perceptions about midwifery led model of care in secondary care hospitals in Karachi, Pakistan, Shahnaz Anwar, Rafat Jan, Rahat Najam Qureshi, and Salma Rattani
Pharmacodynamic evaluation of Terminalia bellerica for its antihypertensive effect., Arif -Ullah Khan and Anwar Hassan Gilani
Pharmacological Basis for Medicinal Use of Lens culinaris in Gastrointestinal and Respiratory Disorders, Munasib Khan, Arif-ullah Khan, Najeeb Rehman, and Anwar Hassan Gilani
Pharmacological basis for the medicinal use of cardamom in asthma, Anwar Hassan Gilani
Pharmacological basis for the medicinal use of Carissa carandas in constipation and diarrhea, Malik Hassan Mehmood, Nfn Anilaa Nfn Anilaa, Sabira Begum, Saqib A. Syed, Bina S. Siddiqui, and Anwar Hassan Gilani
Pharmacological basis for the medicinal use of Wrightia tinctoria in hypertension and dyslipidemia., Hasan Salman Siddiqi, Amara Majeed, and Anwarul Hassan Gilani
Pharmacological explanation for medicinal use of St. John’s Wart in the hypo-motility disorder of gut., Arif -ullah KHAN, Anwar Hassan Gilani, Munasib KHAN, and Fazal Subhan
Pharmacological studies on the antispasmodic, bronchodilator and anti-platelet activities of Abies webbiana., Mamoona Yasin, Khalid Hussain Janbaz, Imran Imran, Anwar Hassan Gilani, and Samra Bashir
Pharmacy student’s perceptions of traditional method and multimedia use for lecture delivery: a Pakistani perspective, Faaiza Qazi
Phenytoin versus Leviteracetam for seizure prophylaxis after brain injury - a meta analysis., Syed Nabeel Zafar, Abdul Ahad Khan, Asfar Ayaz Gauri, and Muhammad Shahzad Shamim
Phloroglucinol in Irritable Bowel Syndrome, Wasim Jafri, Javed Yakoob, Sajjad Hussain, Nadim Jafri, and Muhammad Islam
“Photocoagulation for diabetic retinopathy – diabetes technology”, Mehwish Abaid
Physical activity and its effect on forced expiratory volume, Syeda Sadia Fatima, Rehana Rehman, Saifullah, and Yumna Khan
Plant root hair in tap water: a potential cause for diagnostic confusion, Sadia Shakoor, Mohammad Wasay, Afia Zafar, and Mohammad Asim Beg
Plasma zinc concentrations are depressed during the acute phase response in children with falciparum malaria, C. Duggan, W.B. MacLeod, N.F. Krebs, J.L. Westcott, W.W. Fawzi, Zul Premji, V. Mwanakasale, J.L. Simon, K. Yeboah-Antwi, and D.H. Hamer
Plasmodium falciparum population dynamics during the early phase of anti-malarial drug treatment in Tanzanian children with acute uncomplicated malaria, A.M. Carlsson, B.E. Ngasala, S. Dahlstrom, C. Membi, I.M. Veiga, L. Rombo, S. Abdulla, Zul Premji, J.P. Gil, A. Bjorkman, and A. Martensson
Plenary Session IV, AEME Conference 2013 and 16th AKU Symposium
Polycolonization of Helicobacter pylori among Chinese subjects, Javed Yakoob, Xue-Gong Fan, G.-L Hu, H.-X. Yang, L. Liu, S.-H. Liu, D.-M. Tan, T.-G. Li, and Z. Zhang
Polypharmacy in elderly: a cautious trail to tread, Saniya Raghib Sabzwari, Waris Qidwai, and Seema Bhanji
Population genetic analysis of large sequence polymorphisms in Plasmodium falciparum blood-stage antigens, A.D. Ahouidi, A.K. Bei, D.E. Neafsey, O. Sarr, S. Volkman, D. Milner, J. Cox-Singh, M.U. Ferreira, O. Ndir, Zul Premji, S. Mboup, and M.T. Duraisingh
Population health metrics research consortium gold standard verbal autopsy validation study: design, implementation, and development of analysis datasets, C.J.L. Murray, A.D. Lopez, R. Black, R. Ahuja, S.M. Ali, A. Baqui, L. Dandona, E. Dantzer, Vinita Das, U. Dhingra, A. Dutta, W. Fawzi, A.D. Flaxman, S. Gomez, B. Hernandez, R. Joshi, H. Kalter, A. Kumar, V. Kumar, R. Lozano, M. Lucero, S. Mehta, B. Neal, S.L. Ohno, R. Prasad, D. Praveen, Zul Premji, D. Ramirez-Villalobos, H. Remolador, I. Riley, M. Romero, M. Said, and D. Sanvictores
Population pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics of artemether and lumefantrine during combination treatment in children with uncomplicated falciparum malaria in Tanzania, S.F. Hietala, A. Martensson, B. Ngasala, S. Dahlstrom, N. Lindegardh, A. Annerberg, Zul Premji, A. Farnert, P. Gil, A. Bjorkman, and M. Ashton
Population-specific evolution of HIV Gag epitopes in genetically diverged patients, Syed H. Abidi, Aniqa Shahid, Laila S. Lakhani, Muhammad R. Khanani, Peter Ojwang, Nancy Okinda, Reena Shah, Farhat Abbas, Sarah Rowland-Jones, and Syed Ali
Population-specific evolution of HIV Gag epitopes in genetically diverged patients, Syed H. Abidi, Aniqa Shahid, Laila S. Lakhani, Muhammad R. Khanani, Peter Ojwang, Nancy Okinda, Reena Shah, Farhat Abbas, Sarah Rowland-Jones, and Syed Ali
Population-specific evolution of HIV Gag epitopes in genetically diverged patients., Syed H. Abidi, Aniqa Shahid, Laila S. Lakhani, Muhammad R. Khanani, Peter Ojwang, Nancy Okinda, Reena Shah, Farhat Abbas, Sarah Rowland-Jones, and Syed Ali
Post-chemotherapy residual mass in stage IIC seminomatous testicular tumor, N A. Ahmad, S R. Biyabani, and Farhat Abbas
Postoperative Analgesia Following Caesarean Section: Intravenous Patient Controlled Analgesia versus Conventional Continuous Infusion, Samina Ismail, Gauhar Afshan, Abdul Monem, and Aliya Ahmed
Practice of written feedback in nursing degree programmes in Karachi: the students' perspective, Amina Aijaz Khowaja, Raisa B. Gul, Arusa Lakhani, Nusrat Fatima Rizvi, and Faiza Saleem
Predictors of poor outcome of decompressive craniectomy in pediatric patients with severe traumatic brain injury: a retrospective single center study from Pakistan, Saad Akhtar Khan, Hussain Shallwani, Muhammad Shahzad Shamim, Ghulam Murtaza, Syed Ather Enam, Reema Obaid Qureshi, and Muhammad Zubair Tahir
Pregnancy and Puerperium-Related Strokes in Asian Women, Maria Khan, Mohammad Wasay, Bindu Menon, Mohammad Saadatnia, Narayanaswamy Venketasubramanian, Padma Gunaratne, M. M. Mehndiratta, Alper Dai, and Subhash Kaul
Premedication in Surgical Day Care Patients, Saminal Ismail, Fauzia A. Khan, Aliya Ahmed, and Khalid A. Shah
Pre-referral rectal artesunate in severe malaria: Flawed trial, K.F. Hirji and Zul Premji
Presence of laxative and antidiarrheal activities in Periploca aphylla: A Saudi medicinal plant., Rehman NU, Khan Aslam, Fatima Urooj, Akram Mahrukh, Al- Musayeib Nawal, Shazia Al- Massarani, Ali El- Gamal, and Anwarul Hassan Gilani
Prevalence and causes of wrong time medication administration errors: Experience at atertiary care hospital, Karachi, Pakistan, Salimah Shamim and Taufiq Kirmani
Prevalence and characterization of anaplastic large cell lymphoma and its association with Epstein-Barr virus in Pakistani patients, Samina Noorali, Shahid Pervez, Nausheen Yaqoob, Tariq Moatter, Muhammad Israr Nasir, Sarwat Haroon, Elizabeth Hodges, and John Lewis Smith
Prevalence and determinants of human papillomavirus infection and cervical lesions in HIV-positive women in Kenya, H De Vuyst, N R. Mugo, M H. Chung, K P. McKenzie, E Nyongesa-Malava, V Tenet, J W. Njoroge, S R. Sakr, C JLM Meijer, P JF Snijders, F S. Rana, and S Franceschi
Prevalence and risk factors for active convulsive epilepsy in rural northeast South Africa, Ryan G. Wagner, Anthony K. Ngugi, Rhian Twine, Christian Bottomley, Gathoni Kamuyu, F Xavier Gómez-Olivé, Myles D. Connor, Mark A. Collinson, Kathleen Kahn, Stephen Tollman, and Charles R. Newton
Prevalence of abnormal aminoglycoside trough levels in children with clinically suspected gram negative infections at the Aga Khan University Hospital, Nairobi, Isaac N. Kihurani
Prevalence of abnormal Papanicolaou smears and cytohistological correlation: A study from Aga Khan University Hospital, Pakistan, Fauzia Haq Nawaz, Aliya B. Aziz, Shahid Pervez, and Javed H. Rizvi
Prevalence of genital chlamydia infection in urban women of reproductive age, Nairobi, Kenya, Ruchika Kohli, Walter P. Konya, Timona Obura, William Stones, and Gunturu Revathi
Prevalence of Hepatitis D in HBsAg positive patients visiting liver clinics, Naresh Kumar Seetlani, Zaigham Abbas, Sajjad Raza, Javed Yakoob, and Wasim Jafri
Prevalence of mycosis fungoides and its association with EBV and HTLV-1 in Pakistanian patients, Samina Noorali, Nausheen Yaqoob, Muhammad Israr Nasir, Tariq Moatter, and Shahid Pervez
Prevalence of urinary tract infections in febrile children and role of urine interleukins in diagnosis, Anne J. Rerimoi
Prevalence of vitamin D deficiency in an ethnic African urban obstetric population in an equatorial city hospital, Raj Hasmukh Dodia
Prevalences of giardia lamblia and cryptosporidium parvum infection in adults presenting with chronic diarrhoea, Javed Yakoob, Zaigham Abbas, M. Asim Beg, Shagufta Naz, Rustam Khan, Muhammad Islam, and Wasim Jafri
Prevention of metabolic syndrome and diabetes: The economic impact of preventive strategies, Dr M Hamed Farooqi
Primary amoebic meningoencephalitis: amoebicidal effects of clinically approved drugs against Naegleria fowleri, Abdul Baig, Huma Kulsoom, and Naveed A. Khan
Primary antiretroviral drug resistance profiles among HIV-1 therapy naïve patients in two referral hospitals in Kenya, Simon Onsongo Nyangena
Primary care: a mandatory requirement for effective health care, Waris Qidwai
Primary elective spine arthrodesis: Audit of institutional cross matched to transfused (C/T) ratio to develop blood product ordering guidelines., Muhammad Mehboob Alam, Zain A. Sobani, Muhammad Shahzad Shamim, Khabir Ahmad, and Fouzia Minai
Problem-based Learning: Enhancing Tutors' Facilitation Skills Using Structured Small Group Experiential Learning, S Sadaf, Syeda Kauser Ali, and R W. Zuberi
Problem-based versus conventional curricula: influence on knowledge and attitudes of medical students towards health research, Hassan Khan, Ather M. Taqui, Muhammad Rizwanulhaq Khawaja, and Zafar Fatmi
Problems and issues in implementing innovative curriculum in the developing countries: the Pakistani experience, Syeda Kauser Ali and Lubna A. Baig
Professionalism in medical students at a private medical college in Karachi, Pakistan, Zain-ul- Abedeen Sobani, Muhammad Masaud Mohyuddin, Syed Abdul Saeed, Fahd Farooq, Kanza Noor Qaiser, Faiz Gani, Nida Shahab Bham, Ahmed Raheem, Mohammad Asim Beg, Vikram Mehraj, Hasanat Sharif, Mughis Sheerani, and Rukhsana Wamiq Zuberi
Prognostic Indicators in Patients with Primary Intraventricular Haemorrhage, Bilal Hameed, Bhojo A. Khealani, Tahseen Mozzafar, and Mohammad Wasay
Programme, AEME Conference 2013 and 16th AKU Symposium
Programme, 17th National Health Sciences Research Symposium
Prokinetic and laxative effects of the crude methanolic extract of Viola betonicifolia whole plant in rodents, Naveed Muhammad; Najeeb Rehman,; Haroon Khan; Muhammad Saeed; and Anwar Gilani
Promoter hypermethylation of tumor suppressor genes correlates with tumor grade and invasiveness in patients with urothelial bladder cancer., Shumaila M. Bilgrami, Sohail A. Qureshi, Shahid Pervez, and Farhat Abbas
Promoting the “notion of cultural diversity” in grade XII students in a government college Sukkur, Sindh, Kamran Malik
Prospects for the sustainability of delivering the basic package of Health Services in Afghanistan: a stakeholder analysis, A. M. Haidari, S. Zaidi, and Raisa B. Gul
Prospects of perfection of medical education as base of practical public health services of Republic SAKHA (Yakutia), P G Petrova, N V Borisova, and L.A. Aprosimov
Prostate specific antigen as a risk factor for skeletal metastases in black African men with prostate cancer, Ayman Mahmood Qureshi
ProTaper Rotary Instrument Fracture During Root Canal Preparation: A Comparison Between Rotary and Hybrid Techniques, Huma Farid, Farhan Raza Khan, and Munawar Rahman
Protecting the children from second-hand smoke, Dr Kamran Siddiqui
Provision of Mentorship Services for Midwives Working in Remote Areas in the Workplaces of Afghanistan, Sabera Turkmani, Fatima Gohar, Pashtoon A. Zyaee, Mursal Musawi, and Mahmood Azimi
Psychometrics of a tool to assess competencies of residents in Dermatology, Sadia Masood
Public awareness assessment: regarding qualified and unqualified dental practitioners: what difference does it make in treatment outcome, Mirza Arsalan Baig, Shagufta Phanwar, and Ghazanfar Hassan
Pulmonary langerhans cell histiocytosis, Muhammad Irfan, Javed Hussain, Riaz Lakdawala, Fayyaz Hussain, and Javaid Khan
Putting NCD risk factors among South Asian immigrants in United Arab Emirates on surveillance screen, Dr Mahboob Shah
Qualitative research for Health Professions: A basic insight, Shazia Qasim Jamshed and Mohammad Jamshed Siddiqui
Qualitative Research Methods: A Practical Experience, Janet Grant
Quality indicators for critical INR results in a haemostatic laboratory, Shabneez Hussain
Radiation exposure in interventional procedures, G. K. Korir, B. O. Ochieng, J. S. Wambani, I. K. Korir, and C. Y. Jowi
Radiation exposure of trainee anaesthetists, A Khan, N Sultan, M Naqvi, and S Ismail
Radiology angiographic procedure knowledge in student nurses of AKU-SON, Amin Rajani
Rapidly developing Optic Neuritis secondary to Ethambutol: possible mechanism of injury, Sajjad Ali, Uzma Usman, and Mohammad Wasay
Rapidly-progressive bronchiolitis obliterans organising pneumonia, S J. Husain, Mohammad Irfan, A S. Zubairi, and N Salahuddin
Rare, highly pyrimethamine-resistant alleles of the Plasmodium falciparum dihydrofolate reductase gene from 5 African sites, S.J. Bates, P.A. Winstanley, W.M. Watkins, A. Alloueche, J. Bwika, T.C. Happi, P.G. Kremsner, J.G. Kublin, Zul Premji, and C.H. Sibley
Rationalizing the content and cost of Dental education, Fazal Ghani
Rational use of antibiotics--a quality improvement initiative in hospital setting, Sidrah Nausheen, Rabia Hammad, and Ambreen Khan
Readmission and death after an acute heart failure event: predictors and outcomes in sub-saharan africa: results from the thesus-hf registry, K. Sliwa, B. A. Davison, B. M. Mayosi, A. Damasceno, M. Sani, O. S. Ogah, C. Mondo, D. Ojji, A. Dzudie, C. K. Kouam, A. Suliman, N. Schrueder, G. Yonga, S. A. Ba, F. Maru, B. Alemayehu, C. Edwards, and G. Cotter
Reasons for migration among medical students from Karachi, Nadir Ali Syed, Farhad Khimani, Marie Andrades, Syeda Kausar Ali, and Rose Paul
Recitation from the Holy Quran, 17th National Health Sciences Research Symposium
Recommendations for the management of Acanthamoeba keratitis, Abdul M. Baig, Hareem Zuberi, and Naveed A. Khan
Recommendations of the Lancet Report 2011, Zulfiqar A Bhutta
Reducing the rates of central line associated blood stream infection using comprehensive unit-based safety program model in the ICU of a tertiary care hospital in Pakistan, Muhammad Sohail Halim
Reducing transfusion-associated malaria in Pakistan: an algorithmic approach, Zain A. Sobani, Sobia Nizami, Mehnaz Jabeen, Nayla Ahmed, Najia Karim Ghanchi, Mohammad Wasay, Bushra Moiz, and Mohammed Asim Beg
Relationship between antipyretic effects and cytokine levels in uncomplicated falciparum malaria during different treatment regimes, E. Hugosson, S.M. Montgomery, Zul Premji, M. Troye-Blomberg, and A. Bjorkman
Relationship between exercise induced dyspnea and functional capacity with doppler-derived diastolic function, Sumera Nasim, Najaf Nadeem, Aysha Zahidie, and Tabbasum Sharif
Remark by Dr Keith Cash, Dean, School of Nursing and Midwifery
Remarks by Dr Farhat Abbas, Dean, Medical College
Renal arteriovenous malformation: an unusual cause of recurrent haematuria., Mazhar Ali, Wajahat Aziz, and Farhat Abbas
Renal clearance and urinary excretion of ciprofloxacin in nili/ravi buffalos, Zahid Iqbal
Research as a pedagogical approach in undergraduate medical education, Ruqaiyyah Siddiqui
Research as a Pedagogical Approach in Undergraduate Medical Education: An Experience, Kulsoom Ghias, Ruqaiyyah Siddiqui, and Rashida Ahmed Rashida Ahmed
Research fatigue among injecting drug users in Karachi, Pakistan, Aysha Zahidie, Arshad Altaf, Adeel Ahsan, and Tanzil Jamali
Research in Health Professional Education (HPE), John Boulet
Resident as educator: a report on elective experience in medical education, Nida Shamsi
Resource allocation within the National AIDS Control Program of Pakistan: a qualitative assessment of decision maker's opinions, Sara Husain, Masood Kadir, and Zafar Fatmi
Retinoblastoma in Karachi, Pakistan, Yasmin Bhurgri, Suhail Muzaffar, Rashida Ahmed, Nafees Ahmed, Hadi Bhurgri, Ahmed Usman, Naveen Faridi, Jawaid Malik, Liaquat Ali G Kazi, Imtiaz Bashir, Naila Kayani, Asif Bhurgri, Shahid Pervez, Sheema H. Hasan, and Akber Haider Soomro
REVERSIBLE OBSTRUCTIVE SLEEP APNEA AND RIGHT HEART FAILURE DUE TO MASSIVE TONSILLAR HYPERTROPHY, Mehnaz Atiq, Fatima Masood, Mubasher Ikram, and Raana Haqqee
Reviewing the application of the balanced scorecard with implications for low-income health settings, Fauziah Rabbani, SM Wasim Jafri, Farhat Abbas, Gregory Pappas, Mat Brommels, and Goran Tomson
Rhabdomyosarcoma in Karachi 1998-2002, Yasmin Bhurgri, Asif Bhurgri, Rehan Puri, Shamvil Ashraf, Asim Qidwai, Kaleem Ashraf, Nafees Ahmed, Amna Mazhar, Hadi Bhurgri, Ahmed Usman, Naveen Faridi, Jawaid Malik, Rashida Ahmed, Suhail Muzaffar, Naila Kayani, Shahid Pervez, and Sheema H. Hasan
Risk factors for complicated-varicella infection in Pediatric Oncology patients at a tertiary health care facility in Pakistan, Matloob Alam
Risk factors for diarrheal duration, Nazrat M. Mirza, Laura E. Caulfield, Robert E. Black, and William Macharia
Risk of childhood asthma in a tropical African urban setting: a case - control study at The Aga Khan Hospital, Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania, Lynda C. Koech
Role of Aga Khan Examination Board (AKU-EB) in improving teaching and learning in schools: A case study, Sumbul Yazdan
Role of complementary and alternative medicine in cardiovascular Diseases, Waris Qidwai, Peng Nam Yeoh, Victor Inem, Kashmira Nanji, and Tabinda Ashfaq
Role of Estrogens in the Secondary Hormonal Manipulation of Hormone Refractory Prostate Cancer, Khurram M. Siddiqui, Farhat Abbas, Syed Raziuddin Biyabani, M Hammad Ather, and Jamsheer J Talati
Role of garlic usage in cardiovascular disease prevention: an evidence-based approach, Waris Qidwai and Tabinda Ashfaq
Role of private sector in addressing scale, quality & capacity building in medical education, Syed Amir Gilani
Role of rapid urease test and histopathology in the diagnosis of Helicobacter pylori infection in a developing country, Javed Yakoob, Wasim Jafri, Shahab Abid, Zaigham Abbas, Saeed Hamid, Muhammad Islam, Kashif Anis, Hasnain Ali Shah, and Hizbullah Shaikh
ROLE OF THYMECTOMY IN MYASTHENIA GRAVIS, Sohaila Mohsin Ali, Aziz Sonawalla, Irfan Altafullah, and Hizbullah Sheikh
Role play: a teaching strategy that adds fun in learning, Shehla Khan
Rota virus diarrhea in hospitalized children, Muhammad Irfan Habib, Sayyeda Ghazala Kazi, Khalid Mehmood Ahmed Khan, and Nukhba Zia
Safety concerns for planned vaginal birth after caesarean section in sub-Saharan Africa, S Z. Wanyonyi and S K. Ngichabe
Safety of untreated autologous cranioplasty after extracorporeal storage at -26 degrees Celsius., M Z. Tahir, M S. Shamim, Z A. Sobani, S N. Zafar, M Qadeer, and M E. Bari
Salmonella Cholecystitis: Atypical Presentation of a Typical Condition, Rehan Ali, Shakeel Ahmed, Maqbool Qadir, Huba Atiq, and Muhammad Hamid
Satisfaction of final year students with various components of teaching, Fareesa Waqar
School-based injury outcomes in children from a low-income setting: results from the pilot injury surveillance in Rawalpindi city, Pakistan, Uzma Rahim Khan, Junaid A. Bhatti, Nukhba Zia, and Umar Farooq
School health project in Mashal Model School Islamabad, Hajira Gul Sirajuddin
Science and policy on endocrine disrupters must not be mixed: a reply to a “common sense” intervention by toxicology journal editors, Åke Bergman, Anna-Maria Andersson, Georg Becher, Martin van den Berg, Bruce Blumberg, Poul Bjerregaard, Carl-Gustaf Bornehag, Riana Bornman, Ingvar Brandt, Jayne V. Brian, Stephanie C. Casey, Paul A. Fowler, Heloise Frouin, Linda C. Giudice, Taisen Iguchi, Ulla Hass, Susan Jobling, Anders Juul, Karen A. Kidd, Andreas Kortenkamp, Monica Lind, Olwenn V. Martin, Derek Muir, Roseline Ochieng, Nicolas Olea, Leif Norrgren, Erik Ropstad, Peter S. Ross, Christina Rudén, Martin Scheringer, Niels Erik Skakkebaek, Olle Söder, Carlos Sonnenschein, Ana Soto, Shanna Swan, Jorma Toppari, Charles R. Tyler, Laura N. Vandenberg, Anne Marie Vinggaard, Karin Wiberg, and R Thomas Zoeller
Science teacher development in Pakistan: A learning community approach, Harcharan Pardhan and Patricia Rowell
Scope of policy issues in eHealth: results from a structured literature review., S. Khoja, H. Durrani, P. Nayani, and A. Fahim
Scoring performance based assessment (PBA), John Boulet
Screening for urinary tract infection in children with cancer, S. T. Munyi, William Macharia, A. J. Alwar, and Erastus K. Njeru
Screening of Common Mental Disorders in patients suffering from Non Communicable Diseases, Ayesha Mian, Nargis Asad, Tania Nadeem, Faheem Khan, Tayyab Arfeen, and Murad Moosa Khan
Self-perceived health among school going adolescents in Pakistan: influence of individual, parental and life style factors?, Asad Ali Khan Afridi, Komal Motwani, Saleem Khawaja, Adeel A. Khoja, Zafar Fatmi, Iqbal Azam, and Muhammad Masood Kadir
Self reported alcohol use in an urban traffic trauma population in Kenya, S. Hassan, William Macharia, and John Atinga
Sensitivity and specificity of bedside troponin i kit (qualitative) test as compared with the standardized quantitative lab test for troponin I, Javed Ismail, Junaid Alam Ansari, Syed Arsalan Ahmed, Amir khatri, Sanam Anwer, Ghulam Ishaq Khan, and Ovais Shamim
Sentence comprehension in Swahili-English bilingual agrammatic speakers, T.O. Abuom, E. Shah, and R. Bastiaanse
Sentinel node localisation using pre-operative lymphoscintigraphy and intraoperative gamma probe in early oral cavity cancer, Mubasher Ikram, Shabbir Akhtar, Montasir Junaid, Tariq Dhari, Maseeh-uz Zaman, Riffat Hussain, and Zubair Ahmad
Seroprevalence of hepatitis E and Helicobacter pylori in a low socioeconomic area of a metropolitan city in a developing country, Wasim Jafri, Javed Yakoob, Shahab Abid, Saifa Awan, Shaheer Siddiqui, Fatima Jafri, Saeed Hamid, and S Q. Nizami
Severe combined immune deficiency syndrome, Ali Faisal Saleem, Ranish Deedar Ali Khawaja, Abdul Sattar Shaikh, Syed Asad Ali, and Anita Kaniz Mehdi Zaidi
Severe road traffic injuries in Kenya, quality of care and access, William Macharia, F. Muli-Musiime, V. Nantulya, and Erastus K. Njeru
Severity of Plasmodium vivax malaria in Karachi: a cross-sectional study, Amber Mehmood and Kiran Ejaz
Should Carotid Endarterectomy be performed for Symptomatic Carotid Stenosis Pakistan?, N. A. Syed, A. Zakaria, B. A. Khealani, M. Wasay, S. M. Baig, and Z. Sophie
Significance of immunohistochemical c-ErbB-2 product localisation pattern for prognosis in human breast cancer, Syed Abdus Aziz, Shahid Pervez, Shaista Khan, Naila Kayani, Syed Iqbal Azam, and Mohammed Hussain Rahbar
Significance of immunohistochemistry in accurate characterization of malignant tumors, Zubair Ahmed, Najamul Sahar Azad, Yasmeen Bhurgari, Rashida Ahmed, Naila Kayani, Shahid Pervez, and Sheema Hasan
Significance of preoperative hemoglobin as a screening test in children underwent Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) In general anaesthesia, A Asghar and F Shamim
Silencing of MBD1 and MeCP2 in prostate-cancer-derived PC3 cells produces differential gene expression profiles and cellular phenotypes., Yaqinuddin Ahmed, Farhat Abbas, Syed S. Naqvi, Mohammad U. Bashir, Romena Qazi, and Sohail A. Qureshi
Silencing of xylose isomerase and cellulose synthase by siRNA inhibits encystation in Acanthamoeba castellanii, Yousuf Aqeel, Ruqaiyyah Siddiqui, and Naveed Ahmed Khan
Single Stage Oncologic Resection and Reconstruction: A Step toward Development of Sarcoma Service in Resource Constrained Country, Haroon Ur Rashid, Kashif Abbas, and Masood Umer
Situation analysis of child labour in Karachi, Pakistan: a qualitative study, Asaad Ahmed Nafees, Kausar Saeed Khan, Zafar Fatmi, and Mubashir Aslam
Six-Minute Walk Test Performance in Healthy Adult Pakistani Volunteers, Nisar Ahmed Rao, Muhammad Irfan, Ahmed Suleman Haque, Ali Bin Sarwar Zubairi, and Safia Awan
Skills training of junior medical students: can peer-teaching be the solution?, Ismat M Mutwali
Small B Cell Non-Hodgkins Lymphoma in Pakistan, Kanwal Aftab, Yasmin Bhurgri, and Shahid Pervez
Smokeless Tobacco Use: A Risk Factor for Hyperhomocysteinemia in a Pakistani Population, Mohammad Perwaiz Iqbal and Mohsin Yakub
Smoking Cessation Skills Building, Javaid Khan, Muhammad Irfan, and Kamran Siddiqui
Social accountability and quality assurance in Health Professions Education, Somaya Hosny and Mohamed Elhassan Abdalla
Social and cultural factors affecting rates of regular retreatment of mosquito nets with insecticide in Bagamoyo District, Tanzania, P.J. Winch, A.M. Makemba, V.R. Makame, M.S. Mfaume, M.C. Lynch, Zul Premji, J.N. Minjas, and C.J. Shiff
Socio-demographic correlates of betel, areca and smokeless tobacco use as a high risk behavior for head and neck cancers in a squatter settlement of Karachi, Pakistan, Samia Mazahir, Rabia Malik, Maria Maqsood, Kanwal AliRaza Merchant, Farida Malik, Atif Majeed, Zafar Fatmi, Muhammad Rizwanulhaq Khawaja, and Shehzad Ghaffar
Socio-economic and Demographic factors associated with injecting drug use among drug users in Karachi, Pakistan, A. Agha, S. Parviz, M. Younus, and Zafar Fatmi
Solid fuel use is a major risk factor for acute coronary syndromes among rural women: a matched case control study, Zafar Fatmi, D. Coggon, A. Kazi, M. M. Kadir, and N. Sathiakumar
South Asian foodways in Britain diversity and change and the implications for health promotion, Tashmin Kassam-Khamis
SPASMOLYTIC, BRONCHODILATOR AND VASORELAXANT ACTIVITY OF METHANOLIC EXTRACT OF TEPHROSIA PURPUREA, KHALID HUSSAIN JANBAZ1, ASMA JAN, M IMRAN QADIR, and ANWARUL HASSAN GILANI
Species Differences in the Antidiarrheal and Antispasmodic Activities of Lepidium sativum and Insight into Underlying Mechanisms, Anwarul Hassan Gilani, Najeeb ur Rehman, Malik Hassan Mehmood, and Khalid M. Alkharfy
Spinal muscular atrophy: clinical spectrum and genetic mutations in Pakistani children, Shahnaz Ibrahim, Tariq Moatter, and Ali Faisal Saleem
Spirituality and nursing: an Ismaili perspective on holistic nursing care, Khairunnisa A. Dhamani
Standard and reduced doses of sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine for treatment of Plasmodium falciparum in Tanzania, with determination of drug concentrations and susceptibility in vitro, U. Hellgren, C.M. Kihamia, Y. Bergqvist, M. Lebbad, Zul Premji, and L. Rombo
Standardisation of neonatal clinical practice, Z A. Bhutta, F Giuliani, A Haroon, H E. Knight, E Albernaz, M Batra, B Bhat, E Bertino, K McCormick, R Ochieng, V Rajan, P Ruyan, L Cheikh Ismail, and V Paul
Status of free-living amoebae (Acanthamoeba spp., Naegleria fowleri, Balamuthia mandrillaris) in drinking water supplies in Karachi, Pakistan, Farzana Abubakar Yousuf, Ruqaiyyah Siddiqui, Faysal Subhani, and Naveed Ahmed Khan
Stem cells and tissue engineering in dentistry — a Myth or Reality, Farhan Raza Khan, Tashfeen Ahmad, and Nurrudin Badruddin
Strategic in-service training: demography, population sciences and health, Mariyam Sarfraz
Strategic IT leadership for e-learning in Health Professions Education, Chris Handley
Strategies to reduce disease burden from diabetes and hypertension in developing world, Waris Qidwai
Strengthening paediatric emergency medicine in Pakistan is our need to reach millennium development goal 4., Emaduddin Siddiqui and Kiran Ejaz
Stress prevalence among second year MBBS students, Rafay Ali Khan
Stroke in Asia: geographical variations and temporal trends, Man Mohan Mehndiratta, Maria Khan, Prachi Mehndiratta, and Mohammad Wasay
Students’ perception of mentoring at Bahria University Medical andDental College (BUMDC), Sobia Ali
Students’ perceptions and their responses to written feedback in the nursing degree programs in Karachi, Amina Aijaz Khowaja
Students perception: transition from UGME Years I & II to clinical clerkship years: ready or not?, Tabassum Zehra
Studies on bronchodilator and cardiac stimulant activities of Urginea indica, Samra Bashir, Saima Abbas, Aslam Khan, and Anwar H. Gilani
Studies on Buddleja asiatica antibacterial, antifungal, antispasmodic and Ca++ antagonist activities, Farman Ali, Irshad Ali, Hidayat Ullah Khan, Arif -ullah Khan, and Anwar Hassan Gilani
Studies on Prokinetic, Laxative and Spasmodic Activities of Phyllanthus emblica in Experimental Animals, Malik Hassan Mehmood, Abdul Rehman, Najeeb Rehman, and Anwar Gilani
Studies on the in vitro and in vivo antiurolithic activity of Holarrhena antidysenterica, Aslam Khan, Saeed R. Khan, and Anwar Hassan Gilani
Studies on tracheorelaxant and anti-inflammatory activities of rhizomes of Polygonatum verticillatum, Haroon Khan, Muhammad Saeed, Malik Hassan Mehmood, Najeeb-ur Rehman, Naveed Muhammad, Ikram-ul Haq, Nadeem Ashraf, Kamal Eldin H El-Tahir, and Anwarul Hassan i Gilani
Studies on two polyherbal formulations (ZPTO and ZTO) for comparison of their antidyslipidemic, antihypertensive and endothelial modulating activities, Nauman Aziz, Malik Hassan Mehmood, and Anwarul Hassan Gilani
Study guides: perception of students about study guides in an undergraduate medical college, Shazia Babar
Study on Non-Carious cervical lesions, Hina Ahmad, Durr e. Sadaf, and Munawar Rahman
Successful schools: What can we learn from them?, John Retallick
Surgical emphysema in the neck as a result of a dental procedure, Moghira Iqbal, Mubasher Ikram, Farhan Raza, and Ninette Banday
Surgical emphysema in the neck as a result of a dental procedure, Moghira Iqbal, Mubasher Ikram, Farhan Raza, and Ninette Banday
Surgical grand rounds at a University Hospital. Applying "publication presentation index" to evaluate outcomes., Muhammad Shahrukh Effendi, Syed Nabeel Zafar, Syed Johar Raza, Muhammad Shahzad Shamim, and Mohammad Hammad Ather
Surgical Grand Rounds at a university hospital: creating researchers out of surgical training programs, Muhammad Shahrukh Effendi, Syed Nabeel Zafar, Syed JoharRaza, Muhammad Shahzad Shamim, and Mohammad HammadAther
Surgical management of penile cancer--report of two cases., M Amjad Noor, Hammad Ather, M Nasir Sulaiman, and Farhat Abbas
Surgical management of pheochromocytoma in a 13-week pregnant woman., Mazhar Ali Memon, Wajahat Aziz, and Farhat Abbas
Surgical management of traumatic extra dural hematoma in children: Experiences and analysis from 24 consecutively treated patients in a developing country, Muhammad Babar Khan, Muhammad Riaz, Gohar Javed, Fauzan Alam Hashmi, Maryam Sanaullah, and Syed Ijlal Ahmed
Surgical repair of genital fistulae., Tahira Naru, Javed H. Rizvi, and Jamsheer J. Talati
Surgical residency in Pakistan - End user perspective and need for change, Mehwash Nadeem, M Hammad Ather, Zafar Zaidi, Tahmeena Siddiqui, and M Shahrukh Effendi
Surgical training programs in Pakistan., Jamsheer J Talati and Nadir Ali Syed
Systemic social brand management, as a factor of safety of patients, Habibulla Bismildin and Meyrambek Askarov
Talk by Dr Samer Jabbour (via Skype), Dr Samer Jabbour
TBA, Dr Abdul Jabbar
Teacher education in Pakistan with particular reference to teachers' conceptions of teaching, Amin Rehmani
Teacher leadership for school-based professional development: A case study, Muhammad Jumma Abdalla and Rashida Qureshi
Teachers’ accounts of their perceptions and practices of providing written feedback to Nursing students on their assignments, Sajid Iqbal, Raisa Gul, Arusa Lakhani, and Nusrat Fatima Rizvi
Teachers of English in Pakistan : Profile and recommendations, Ayesha Bashiruddin and Rabail Qayyum
Teaching and learning in 21st Century: An e-learning insight, Masood Jawaid
Teaching humanities & Health Professions Education, Kausar S Khan, Kulsoom Ghias, Rukhsana Ali, and Shireen Azfar
Teaching study skills, Syed Moyn Aly
Tea & Posters Viewing, 17th National Health Sciences Research Symposium
Tea & Posters Viewing, 17th National Health Sciences Research Symposium
Temporal trends of molecular markers associated with artemether- lumefantrine tolerance/resistance in Bagamoyo district, Tanzania, M. Malmberg, B. Ngasala, P.E. Ferreira, E. Larsson, I. Jovel, A. Hjalmarsson, M. Petzold, Zul Premji, J.P. Gil, A. Bjorkman, and A. Martensson
Tetanus and rabies eradication in Pakistan; a mission not impossible, Mohammad Wasay, Ismail A. Khatri, and Naseem Salahuddin
Thalassemia and premarital screening: potential for implementation of a screening program among young people in Pakistan, Arslan Mirza, Alina Ghani, Anam Pal, Abeer Sami, Sana Hannan, Zohaib Ashraf, Sulala Iqbal, Umair Zafar Malik, Umar Hayat, and Zafar Fatmi
The 80-hour work week for residents: views from Obstetrics and Gynecology program directors, Jabin Janoo
The action research interest group: Building capacity for learning communities, Shahzad Mithani, Debbie Kramer-Roy, Bernadette L. Dean, and Anjum Halai
The Aga Khan Health Services : International Newsletter, No. 43, Aga Khan University
The Aga Khan Health Services : International Newsletter, No. 44, Aga Khan University
The analgesic and anticonvulsant effects of piperine in mice, I A. Bukhari, M S. Alhumayyd, A L. Mahesar, and A H. Gilani
The Calcium Channel Blocking and Phosphodiesterase Inhibitory Activities of the Extract of Andropogon muricatus Explains its Medicinal Use in Airways Disorders, Jabbar Jabbar Shah and Anwar Hassan Gilani
The causes, treatment, and outcome of acute heart failure in 1006 Africans From 9 countries, Albertino Damasceno, Bongani M. Mayosi, Mahmoud Sani, Okechukwu S. Ogah, Charles Mondo, Dike Ojji, Anastase Dzudie, Charles Kouam Kouam, Ahmed Suliman, Neshaad Schrueder, Gerald Yonga, Serigne Abdou Ba, Fikru Maru, Bekele Alemayehu, Christopher Edwards, Beth A. Davison, Gad Cotter, and Karen Sliwa
The Challenge of Pluralism : Paradigms from Muslim Contexts, Abdou Filali-Ansary and Sikeena Karmali Ahmed
The Construct and Criterion Validity of the Mini-CEX: A Meta-Analysis of the Published Research, Ahmed Al Ansari, Syeda Kauser Ali, and Tyrone Donnon
The Construction of Belief : Reflections on the Thought of Mohammed Arkoun, Abdou Filali-Ansari and Aziz Esmail
The content of African diets is adequate to achieve optimal efficacy with fixed-dose artemether-lumefantrine: A review of the evidence, Zul Premji, S. Abdulla, B. Ogutu, A. Ndong, C.O. Falade, I. Sagara, N. Mulure, O. Nwaiwu, and G. Kokwaro
The continuing evolution of the research doctorate, Bianca L. Bernstein, Barbara Evans, Jeannette Fyffe, Nelofer Halai, Fred L. Hall, Mukobe Siggaard Jensen, Kazim Papeiva, and Suzanne Ortega
The development of Pakistan’s research Eco-system, S. Sohail H. Naqvi
The diploma in family medicine examination; a scientific exercise, Rukhsana Wamiq Zuberi, Naeem A. Jafarey, Fazal Elahi, and Asma Fozia Qureshi
The effectiveness of an abbreviated training program for health workers in breast cancer awareness: innovative strategies for resource constrained environments, Miriam Mutebi, Ronald Wasike, Ahmed Mushtaq, Aideed Kahie, and Stephen Ntoburi
The effect of different environmental conditions on the encystation of Acanthamoeba castellanii belonging to the T4 genotype., Yousuf Aqeel, Ruqaiyyah Siddiqui, Hira Iftikhar, and Naveed Ahmed Khan
The effect of item analysis in improving learning of kinesiology and biomechanics course, Ghadam Ali Talebi, Reza Ghaffari, Eyoub Eskandarzadeh, and Ali E Oskouei
The effects of changed teaching modalities on the efficacy of Advanced Cardiac Life Support program, Syed Yousuf Ahmed Zaidi and S M Yunus Raza Naqvi
The Efficacy of Spirometry as a Screening Tool in Detection of Air Flow Obstruction, Nabeel Manzar, A. Suleman Haque, Bushra Manzar, and Muhammad Irfan
The Frequency of IgA Nephropathy at a Single Center in Pakistan, S. Muzaffar, N. S. Azad, N. Kayani, Shahid Pervaz, A. Ahmed, and S. H. Hasan
The global educational policy field and national education policymaking in Pakistan, Sajid Ali
The impact of endocrine disruption a consensus statement on the state of the science, A. Bergman, J. J. Heindel, T. Kasten, K. A. Kidd, S. Jobling, M. Neira, R. T. Zoeller, G. Becher, P. Bjerregaard, R. Bornman, I. Brandt, A. Kortenkamp, D. Muir, M-N. B. Drisse, R. Ochieng, N. E. Skakkebaek, A. S. Byléhn, T. Iguchi, J. Toppari, and T. J. Woodruff
The impact of introduction of the Canadian CT – head rule on the use of CT-scan on minor head injury patients at Aga Khan University Hospital, Nairobi, Ramadhani Omari Abdalla
The improvement in medical skills of paramedical staff by on job training, Tehreem Yazdani
The Karachi Intracranial Stenosis Study (KISS) protocol: an urban multicenter case-control investigation reporting the clinical, radiologic and biochemical associations of intracranial stenosis in Pakistan, Ayeesha Kamran Kamal, Fawad Taj, Babar Junaidi, Asif Rasheed, Moazzam Zaidi, Muhammed Murtaza, Naved Iqbal, Fahad Hashmat, Syed Vaqas Alam, Uzma Saleem, Shahan Waheed, Lajpat Bansari, Nabi Shah, Maria Samuel, Madiha Yameen, Sobia Naz, Farrukh Shahab Khan, Naveeduddin Ahmed, Khalid Mahmood, Niaz Sheikh, Karim Ullah Makki, Muhammad Masroor Ahmed, Mohammad Wasay, Nadir Ali Syed, Bhojo A Khealani, Philippe M. Frossard, and Danish Saleheen
The muranga teleophthalmology study: comparison of virtual (teleglaucoma) with in-person clinical assessment to diagnose glaucoma, D. Kiage, I. N. Kherani, S. Gichuhi, K. F. Damji, and M. Nyenze
The Need of Paediatric Dentistry Specialists in Pakistan, Farhan Raza Khan, Sadia Mahmud, and Munawar Rahman
The objectives, design and implementation of the INTERGROWTH-21st Project, Villar J, Altman D. G, Purwar M, Noble J. A, Knight H. E, Ruyan P, Ismail L. Cheikh, Barros F. C, Lambert A, Papageorghiou A. T, Carvalho M, Jaffer Y. A, Bertino E, Gravett M. G, Bhutta Z. A, and Kennedy S. H
The patient at the heart of health system a move towards client centered health care, Nosheen Sheikh
The patterns of organizational learning in a private secondary school in rural Pakistan, Ali Nawab
The personal values of school leaders in Pakistan: A contextual model of regulation and influence, Sharifullah Baig
The pervasive triad of food security, gender inequity and women's health: Exploratory research from sub-Saharan Africa, A.A. Hyder, S. Maman, J.E. Nyoni, S.A. Khasiani, N. Teoh, Zul Premji, and S. Sohani
The Political Aesthetics of Global Protest : the Arab Spring and Beyond, Pnina Werbner, Martin Webb, and Kathryn Spellman-Poots
The PoroSightR-F test: A simple rapid manual dipstick test to detect Plasmodium falciparum infection, C.J. Shiff, J. Minjas, and Zul Premji
The postgraduate career choices of students of Dow Medical College, Karachi, Nusrat Shah
The prevalence of smoking and the knowledge of smoking hazards and smoking cessation strategies among hiv positive patients in johannesburg, south africa, P. Waweru, R. Anderson, H. Steel, WDF. Venter, D. Murdoch, and C. Feldman
Therapeutic efficacy of sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine and prevalence of resistance markers in Tanzania prior to revision of malaria treatment policy: Plasmodium falciparum dihydrofolate reductase and dihydropteroate synthase mutations in monitoring in vivo resistance, K. Mugittu, M. Ndejembi, A. Malisa, M. Lemnge, Zul Premji, A. Mwita, W. Nkya, J. Kataraihya, S. Abdulla, H.-P. Beck, and H. Mshinda
Therapeutic Potential of Turmeric in Alzheimer's Disease: Curcumin or Curcuminoids?, Touqeer Ahmed and Anwarul Hassan Gilani
The rapid manual ParaSight®-F test. A new diagnostic tool for Plasmodium falciparum infection, C.J. Shiff, Zul Premji, and J.N. Minjas
The rationality of prescribing antibiotics after tonsillectomy, Maqbool Ahmed Baloch, Shabbir Akhtar, Mubasher Ikram, and Hassan Nabeel Humayun
The relationship of socio-demographic factors with Iron Deficiency Anaemia in children of 1-2 years of age, N. S. Ali and Rukhsana Wamiq Zuberi
The role of inflammation in contrast induced nephropathy, Elijah A. Kwasa
The second African Federation of neurological surgeons course in the East, Central, and Southern Africa region held in Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania, January 2011, J. F. Kahamba, A. B. Assey, R. J. Dempsey, M. M. Qureshi, and R. Härtl
The study of HIV and antenatal care integration in pregnancy in Kenya: design, methods, and baseline results of a Cluster-Randomized Controlled Trial, J. M. Turan, R. L. Steinfeld, M. Onono, E. A. Bukusi, M. Woods, S. B. Shade, S. Washington, R. Marima, J. Penner, M. L. Ackers, D. Mbori-Ngacha, and C. R. Cohen
The unseen and untold issues of clinical trials and research ethics in Pakistan., Shahan Waheed and Emaduddin Siddiqui
The use of permethrin-impregnated bednets for malaria control in coastal Tanzania: Preliminary entomological impact on vectors, E.A. Temu, J.N. Minjas, Z. Premji, R.H. Hunt, and C.J. Shiff
The use of portfolio in assessing students’ English writing skills, Mariam Farooq
The use of simulation to enhance patient safety: challenges and opportunities, John R Boule
The way forward to public health in Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries: a need for public health systems and law, Tawfik A M Khoja Khoja, Waris Qidwai, Mohamed Sayed H. Ahmed, Salman Rawaf, and Kashmira Nanji
Tips for Developing a Valid and Reliable Bank of Multiple Choice Questions (MCQs), Shazia Sadaf, Sadaf Khan, and Syeda Kauser Ali
Toluidine blue: Yet another low cost method for screening oral cavity tumour margins in Third World countries, Montasir Junaid, Anwar Suhail, Beena Umer, Mubasher Ikram, Zain-ul-Abedeen Sobani, Naeem Sultan Ali, and Ahmad Nawaz
To study the correlation between carrier status of nasal Staphylococcus aureus in patients on haemodialysis with hepatitis C, hepatitis B and their sociodemographic features, U Aydogan, H Akbulut, D E. Gok, M I. Yilmaz, S Yuksel, O Sari, Y C. Doganer, Z Senses, D Baltaci, H I. Kara, K Saglam, W Qidwai, and S Waheed
TP53 protein overexpression in oral squamous cell carcinomas (OSCC): correlation with histologic variables and survival outcome in Pakistani patients, S. M.A. Ali, M. S. Awan, S. Ghaffar, S. I. Azam, and Shahid Pervez
Trans fatty acids – A risk factor for cardiovascular disease, Mohammad Perwaiz Iqbal
Transforming schools into learning communities: Focus on Pakistan, John Retallick and Al-Karim Datoo
Transitional cell carcinomas of the urinary bladder. A histopathological study, Z. Ahmed, S. Muzaffer, M. Khan, N. Kayani, Shahid Pervez, A. S. Husseini, and S H. Hasan
Treatment of asymptomatic carriers with artemether-lumefantrine: An opportunity to reduce the burden of malaria?, B. Ogutu, A.B. Tiono, M. Makanga, Zul Premji, A.D. Gbadoe, D. Ubben, A.C. Marrast, and O. Gaye
Treatment outcome of multi-drug resistant tuberculosis in a tertiary care hospital in Karachi, Nisar Ahmed Rao, Zeeshan Mahfooz, and Muhammad Irfan
Treatment Outcome of Multi-Drug Resistant Tuberculosis Treated As Outpatient in a Tertiary Care Center, Zeeshan Waheed, Muhammad Irfan, Ahmed Suleman Haque, Muhammad Owais Khan, Atif Zubairi, Noor ul Ain, and Javaid A. Khan
Treatment practices for degedege, a locally recognized febrile illness, and implications for strategies to decrease mortality from severe malaria in Bagamoyo District, Tanzania, A.M. Makemba, P.J. Winch, V.M. Makame, G.L. Mehl, Zul Premji, J.N. Minjas, and C.J. Shiff
Trends in antibiotic susceptibility and incidence of late-onset Klebsiella pneumoniae neonatal sepsis over a six-year period in a neonatal intensive care unit in Karachi, Pakistan, Ali Faisal Saleem, Farah Naz Qamar, Hira Shahzad, Maqbool Qadir, and Anita K.M. Zaidi
Uchunguzi (Journal Watch/Montre de Journal) March 2014, Benjamin Wachira
Ultrasonographic renal size in individuals without known renal disease., Niels-Peter Buchholz, Farhat Abbas, Syed Raziuddin Biyabani, Qaiser Javed, Jamsheer Talati, Masood Afzal, and Imtiaz Rizvi
Ultrasound methodology used to construct the fetal growth standards in the INTERGROWTH-21st Project, Papageorghiou A. T, Sarris I, oannou C I, Todros T, Carvalho M, Pilu G, and Salomon L. J
Understanding caretakers' dilemma in deciding whether or not to adhere with referral advice after pre-referral treatment with rectal artesunate, D.O. Simba, D.C. Kakoko, M. Warsame, Zul Premji, M.F. Gomes, G. Tomson, and E. Johansson
Understanding of student pharmacist about antibiotic resistance: Qualitative groundwork, Shazia Qasim Jamshed
Understanding the context of balanced scorecard implementation: a hospital-based case study in Pakistan., Fauziah Rabbani, Sabrina NH Lalji, Farhat Abbas, SM Wasim Jafri, Junaid A. Razzak, Naheed Nabi, Firdous Jahan, Agha Ajmal, Max Petzold, Mats Brommels, and Goran Tomson
Understanding the nature of learning disorders in Pakistani classooms, Kausar Waqar and Nilofar Vazir
Understanding the quality of WFB from the graduate students' perspective, Lubna Ghazal
Understanding the Qur’an Today, Mahmoud Hussein and David Bond
Understanding “The Teacher’s Brand”, Masood Jawaid
Understanding the use of formative assessment to develop conceptual understanding of grade 6 science students, Gul-e- Hina
Unintentional, paediatric domestic injury in a semi rural area of Karachi., Emaduddin Siddiqui, Kiran Ejaz, and Uzma Siddiqui
Usefulness of initial MRI screening form, Abida Faisal
Usefulness of Plasmodium falciparum-specific rapid diagnostic tests for assessment of parasite clearance and detection of recurrent infections after artemisinin-based combination therapy, B. Aydin-Schmidt, M. Mubi, U. Morris, M. Petzold, B.E. Ngasala, Zul Premji, A. Bjorkman, and A. Martensson
Use of e-learning for the advanced level course on teaching and learning (ALC-T/L) in Master’s in Health Professions Education (MHPE), Sheilla Pinjani and Karim Wallani
Use of femoral nail with spiral blade in subtrochanteric fractures., Masood Umer, Haroon Rashid, Idrees Shah, and Irfan Qadir
Use of Inhaled PGE1 to Improve Diastolic Dysfunction, LVEDP, Pulmonary Hypertension and Hypoxia in ARDS—A Randomised Clinical Trial*, Shahla Siddiqui, Nawal Salahuddin, Salwa Zubair, Muniza Yousuf, Iqbal Azam, and Anwar Hassan Gilani
Use of power lab and lab tutor in undergraduate medical education laboratory teaching, Saeeda Sshaharyar
Use of Tranexamic acid is a cost effective method in preventing blood loss during and after total knee replacement, Yasir J. Sepah, Masood Umer, Tashfeen Ahmad, Faria Nasim, Muhammad Umer Chaudhry, and Muhammad Umar
Use of transversus abdominis plane block as an anesthetic technique in a high risk patient for abdominal wall surgery, Samina Ismail, Muhammad Rizwan Khan, and Sana Urooj
Using participatory research methods to explore residents’ perception of workplace stressors during residency training, Fauzia N. Minai and Syeda Kauser Ali
Using verbal autopsy to measure causes of death: the comparative performance of existing methods, C.J.L. Mahende, R. Lozano, A.D. Flaxman, P. Serina, D. Phillips, A. Stewart, S.L. James, A. Vahdatpour, C. Atkinson, M.K. Freeman, S.L. Ohno, R. Black, S.M. Ali, A.H. Baqui, L. Dandona, E. Dantzer, G.L. Darmstadt, V. Das, U. Dhingra, A. Dutta, W. Fawzi, S. Gomez, B. Hernandez, R. Joshi, H.D. Kalter, A. Kumar, V. Kumar, M. Lucero, S. Mehta, Zul Premji, D. Ramirez-Villalobos, H. Remolador, I. Riley, M. Romero, M. Said, D. Sanvictores, S. Sazawal, V. Tallo, and A. D. Lopez
Uterine Perivascular Epithelioid Cell Tumour Presenting as a Cervical Mass, Najamul Sahar Azad, Shahid Pervez, Naila Kayani, and Aliya Begum Aziz
Validation of c-reactive protein in the early diagnosis of neonatal sepsis in a tertiary care hospital in Kenya., Rashim Kumar, Rachel Musoke, William Macharia, and Gunturu Revathi
Validation of the ottawa ankle rules at a tertiary teaching hospital: a cross-sectional study, Mark Karanja Tharao
Validation of the SETOC instrument — Student evaluation of teaching in outpatient clinics, Rukhsana W. Zuberi, Georges Bordage, and Geoffrey R. Norman
Validation of Verbal Autopsy Tool for Ascertaining the Causes of Stillbirth, Sidrah Nausheen, Sajid B. Soofi, Kamran Sadiq, Atif Habib, Ali Turab, Zamir Suhag, Zaid Bhatti, Imran Ahmed, Zulfiqar A. Bhutta, Zahid Memon, Rajiv Bahl, M. Imran Khan, and Shireen Bhutta
Value of traditional games, Saima Khalid
Variant merozoite protein expression is associated with erythrocyte invasion phenotypes in Plasmodium falciparum isolates from Tanzania, A.K. Bei, C.D. Membi, J.C. Rayner, M. Mubi, B. Ngasala, A.A. Sultan, Zul Premji, and M.T. Duraisingh
Variations in sub-national road traffic fatality trends in a low-income country., Junaid A. Bhatti, Ajmal Khan Khoso, Hunniya Waseem, Uzma Rahim Khan, and J. Razzak
Varied presentation of celiac disease in Pakistani adults, Zaigham Abbas, Sajjad Raza, Javed Yakoob, Shahab Abid, Saeed Hamid, Hasnain Shah, and Wasim Jafri
Verbal autopsy: a tool for determining cause of death in a community, Nazrat M. Mirza, William Macharia, Ezekiel Wafula, Francis E. Onyango, and R. O. Agwanda
Video or paper for delivery of problem-based learning cases?, Najia K. Ghanchi, Shagufta Khan, Asad Afridi, Sara Sajid, Shaista Afzal, Iffat Ahmed, Rashida Ahmed, and Kulsoom Ghias
Views of healthcare providers on medical errors in Karachi, Pakistan, Sarosh
Vitamin B12 Supplementation in Trea ting Major Depressive Disorder: A Randomized Controlled Trial, Ehsan Ullah Syed, Mohammad Wasay, and Safia Awan
War on terror cells: killing the host that harbours ‘superbugs’ is an infection control strategy in our fight against infectious diseases, Naveed Ahmed Khan and Ruqaiyyah Siddiqui
Ways to adapt Islamic financial principles for security of health of patients, Habibulla Bismildin, Zharkynbek Moldir, Tabriz Kuralay, Baimenova Aigerim, and Zakaria Asfandiyar
Welcome Address, Dr Mohammad Wasay
Welcome to the first Journal of Asian Midwives, Rafat Jan
Wernekink Comissure Syndrome: a rare midbrain syndrome secondary to stroke, Alper I. Dai and Mohammad Wasay
What is new in postoperative analgesia?, Samina Ismail
Where do developing world clinicians obtain evidence for practice: A case study on pneumonia, John Page, Richard Heller, Scotty Kinlay, Lynette Lim, Wang Qian, Zheng Suping, Supornchai Kongpatanakul, Murtaza Akhtar, Salah Khedr, and William Macharia
Who gets prompt access to artemisinin-based combination therapy? A prospective community-based study in children from rural kilosa, Tanzania, D.O. Simba, M. Warsame, D. Kakoko, Z. Mrango, G. Tomson, Zul Premji, and M. Petzold
Why do students cheat in examinations?, Amin Rehmani
Why is child labour detrimental for children?, Cassandra Fernandes Faria
Willingness and ability to pay for artemisinin-based combination therapy in rural Tanzania, E.C. Saulo, B.C. Forsberg, Zul Premji, S.M. Montgomery, and A. Bjorkman
Workplace based assessment, John Norcini and Ara Tekian
Workplace-based assessment of teachers, John Norcini and Ara Tekian
Youth development and education in Pakistan : Exploring the relationship, Dilshad Ashraf, Takbir Ali, and Anya Hosain
Zinc chloride inhibits Helicobacter pylori growth and reduces expression of interleukin-1beta by gastric epithelial cells, Javed Yakoob, Z Abbas, Wasim Jafri, Muhammad Waqas Usman, and Safia Awan