Submissions from 2019
Diagnosis of celiac disease and environmental enteropathy on biopsy images using color balancing on convolutional neural networks, Kamran Kowsari, Rasoul Sali, Marium N. Khan, William Adorno, Syed Asad Ali, Sean R. Moore, Beatrice C. Amadi, Paul Kelly, Sana Syed, and Donald E. Brown
Comparison of treatment of severe acute malnutrition with ready-to-use therapeutic food and ready-to-use-supplementary food: Research plans in Pakistan, Sumra Kureishy; Meghan Callaghan-Gillespie; Gul Nawaz Khan Nawaz Khan; Atif Habib; Mica Jenkins; Khawaja Masuood Ahmed; Baseer Achakzai, Baseer Achakzai,; Saskia de Pee; Mark J. Manary; Cecilia Ávila Garzón,; and Sajid Bashir Soofi
Health-related quality of life in surgical children and adolescents with congenital heart disease compared with their age-matched healthy sibling: a cross-sectional study from a lower middle-income country, Pakistan, Laila Akbar Ladak, Babar Hasan, Janice Gullick, Khadija Awais, Ahmed Abdullah, and Robyn Gallagher
Health-related quality of life in congenital heart disease surgery in children and young adults: A systematic review and meta-analysis, Laila Ladak, Babar Hasan, Janice Gullick, and Robyn Gallagher
Su1304 – A novel histology index for evaluation of enteropathies associated with suboptimal childhood growth identifies geographic-specific features, Ta-Chiang Liu, Kelley VanBuskirk, Syed Asad Ali, Paul Kelly, Lori R. Holtz, and Christopher A. Moskaluk
Hepatobiliary and Pancreatic: Bleeding in amyloid liver: A rare presentation of primary liver amyloidosis, Ajeet Kumar Lohana, s Abid, Raza Sayani, Ummiya Tahir, and PA Shaikh
The incidence of pregnancy hypertension in India, Pakistan, Mozambique, and Nigeria: A prospective population-level analysis., Laura A. Magee, Sumedha Sharma, Hannah L. Nathan, Olalekan O. Adetoro, Mrutynjaya B. Bellad, Shivaprasad Goudar, Rahat Qureshi, Andrew H. Shennan, Zulfiqar A. Bhutta, and Peter von Dadelszen
Socio-anthropological methods to study the feasibility and acceptability of the minimally invasive autopsy from the perspective of local communities: lessons learnt from a large multi-centre study, Maria Maixenchs, Rui Anselmo, Guillermo Martínez Pérez, Kelvin Oruko, Selidji Todagbe Agnandji, Pamela Catherine Angoissa Minsoko, Kounandji Diarra, Mahamane Djiteye, Zulfiqar Ahmed Bhutta, and Shujaat Zaidi
Advancing measurement and monitoring of reproductive, maternal, newborn and child health and nutrition: global and country perspectives, Tanya Marchant, Zulfiqar Ahmed Bhutta, Robert Black, John Grove, Catherine Kyobutungi, and Stefan Peterson
Nurturing environments and nutrient-rich diets may improve cognitive development: analysis of cognitive trajectories from six to sixty months from the MAL-ED study (OR10-01-19), Benjamin McCormick, Laura Caulfield, Stephanie Richard, Laura Pendergast, Laura Murray-Kolb, and Mal-Ed Network Investigators
Early life child micronutrient status, maternal reasoning, and a nurturing household environment have persistent influences on child cognitive development at age 5 years: Results from MAL-ED, Benjamin J J. McCormick, Stephanie A. Richard, Laura E. Caulfield, Laura L. Pendergast, Jessica C. Seidman, Beena Koshy, Reeba Roshan, Rita Shrestha, Erling Svensen, and Muneera Rasheed
A novel training simulator for portable ultrasound identification of incorrect newborn endotracheal tube placement – Observational diagnostic accuracy study protocol, Hasan S. Merali, Mark O. Tessaro, Khushboo Q. Ali, Shaun K. Morris, Sajid Bashir Soofi, and Shabina Ariff
Contextual design choices and partnerships for scaling early child development programmes, Kate M. Milner, Raquel Bernal Salazar, Sunil Bhopal, Alexandra Brentani, Pia Rebello Britto, Tarun Dua, Melissa Gladstone, Esther Goh, Jena Hamadani, and Muneera Rasheed
Kawasaki disease complicated by peripheral gangrene and a ventricular septal defect: An unusual association, Muhammad Mohsin and Saleem Akhtar
Evaluation of cardiac function in fetuses of mothers with gestational diabetes, Muhammad Mohsin, Saleem Akhtar, Kamran Younus, Zahra Hoodbhoy, Salima Ashiqali, and Mehnaz Atiq
Clinical screening for congenital heart disease in newborns at a tertiary care hospital of a developing country, Muhammad Mohsin, Khadija N Humayun, and Mehnaz Atiq
Evaluation of baseline cardiac function by echocardiography and its association with nutritional status in pediatric cancer patients at the Indus hospital in Karachi, Pakistan, Sadia Muhammad; Asim Belgaumi; Muhammad S. Ashraf; Saleem Akhtar; Sundus Iftikhar; Muhammad R. Raza; and Mohammad Y, Yakoob
Correction to: Nasopharyngeal carriage of Streptococcus pneumoniae in children under 5 years of age before introduction of pneumococcal vaccine (PCV10) in urban and rural districts in Pakistan, Muhammad Imran Nisar, Kanwal Nayani, Tauseef Akhund, Atif Riaz, Omar Irfan, Sadia Shakoor, Sehrish Muneer, Sana Muslim, Aneeta Hotwani, Furqan Kabir, Cynthia Whitney, Lindsay Kim, Velusamy Srinivasan, Syed Asad Ali, Anita K. M. Zaidi, and Fyezah Jehan
Assessment and validation of syndromic case definitions for respiratory syncytial virus testing in a low resource population, Saad B. Omer, Robert Bednarczyk, Abdul Momin Kazi, L. Beryl Guterman, Fatima Aziz, Kristen E. Allen, Inci Yildirim, and Syed Asad Ali
Oral polio vaccine response in the MAL-ED birth cohort study: Considerations for polio eradication strategies, William K. Pan, Jessica C. Seidman, Syed Asad Ali, Christel Hoest, Carl Mason, Dinesh Mondal, Stacey L. Knobler, Pascal Bessong, and MAL-ED Network Investigators
Artificial intelligence applied to gastrointestinal diagnostics: A review, Vatsal Patel, Marium N. Khan, Aman Shrivastava, Kamran Sadiq, Syed Asad Ali, Sean Moore, Donald Brown, and Sana Syed
SAT-285 Role of chromosome microarray in identifying a genetic cause of undervirilized external genitalia and growth delay in an infant: 6p Duplication associated with short stature and micropenis, Remberto Paulo, Salman Kirmani, Deborah Bowlby, Katherine Lewis, and Kristal Matlock
Effect of diabetic counseling based on conversation map as compared to routine counseling on diabetes management self-efficacy and diabetic distress among patients with diabetes in Pakistan: a randomized controlled trial (study protocol), Rubina Qasim, Sarfaraz Masih, Mehwish Hussain, Akhter Ali, Ajmal Khan, Yousaf Shah, Hakim Shah, and Mohammad Tahir Yousafzai
Global perspective of paediatric surgery in low and middle income countries, Saqib Hamid Qazi, Sohail Asghar Dogar, Samie Asghar, Tamara Fitzgerald, Ayesha Saleem, and Jai K. Das
Outcome of inadvertent high dose BCG administration in newborns at a tertiary care hospital, Karachi- Case series, Sonia Qureshi, Khalil Ahmad, Paras Fatima, Rabia M. Hassan, Farheen Sherali, Naureen Lalani, Fyezah Jehan, Syed Asad Ali, and Farah Qamar
Clinical profile and outcome of antibiotic lock therapy for bloodstream infections in pediatric hematology/oncology patients in a tertiary care hospital, Karachi, Pakistan, Sonia Qureshi, Paras Fatima, Aiman Mukhtar, Ale Zehra, and Farah Qamar
Comparison of Xpert MTB/RIF with AFB smear and AFB culture in suspected cases of paediatric tuberculosis in a tertiary care hospital, Karachi, Sonia Qureshi, Arjumand Sohaila, Sana Hannan, Muhammad Dawood Amir Sheikh, and Farah Qamar
Ruptured saphenous venous graft pseudoaneurysm presenting as a pulsatile chest mass, Nasir Rahman, Bilal K. Khan, and Babar S. Hasan
Neonatal mortality in a tertiary care private set up in Saudi Arabia, Sajjad Ur Rahman, Muhammad Hasan Abdulghani, Khalid Al Faleh, Jasim Anabrees, Mohammad Khalil, Konstantinos Mousafeiris, Mustafa Mohammad Mustafa, Maha Yassin Mansour, Adnan Mirza, Mohammad Mubarak, and Mohamed Kamal
Clinical features and treatment outcomes of children With anaplastic large cell lymphoma in Pakistan: A multicenter study, Shahzadi Resham, Rahil Khan, Shamvil Ashraf, Arjumand Rizvi, and Sadaf Altaf
Poster # 052 Risk stratification and outcomes based on cytogenetic profile in acute myeloid leukemias in Pakistan, Shahzadi Resham, Bilal Mehmood, Zeeshan Ansar Ahmed, Zehra Fadoo, Asim Belgaumi, and Sadaf Altaf
Effectiveness of 10-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine against vaccine-type invasive pneumococcal disease in Pakistan, Atif Riaz, Syed Mohiuddin, Sara Husain, Mohammad Tahir Yousafzai, Muhammad Sajid, Furqan Kabir, Najeeb Rehman, Waseem Mirza, Basit Salam, Naila Naila, Khatidja Pardhan, Anita K. M. Zaidi, and Syed Asad Ali
Evaluation of the cost-effectiveness of the treatment of uncomplicated severe acute malnutrition by lady health workers as compared to an outpatient therapeutic feeding programme in Sindh Province, Pakistan, Eleanor Rogers, Saul Guerrero, Deepak Kumar, Sajid Bashir Soofi, Shahid Fazal, Karen Martínez, Jose Luis Alvarez Morán, and Chloe Puett
Postpartum endometritis and infection following incomplete or complete abortion: Case definition & guidelines for data collection, analysis, and presentation of maternal immunization safety data, C E. Rouse, L O. Eckert, F M. Muñoz, J S A. Stringer, S Kochhar, L Bartlett, M Sanicas, D J. Dudley, D M. Harper, and Fyezah Jehan
Integrating nutrition into health systems: What the evidence advocates, Rehana Salam, Jai K. Das, and Zulfiqar Ahmed Bhutta
AMPA receptor GluA2 subunit defects are a cause of neurodevelopmental disorders, Vincenzo Salpietro, Christine L. Dixon, Hui Guo, Oscar D. Bello, Jana Vandrovcova, Stephanie Efthymiou, Reza Maroofian, Gali Heimer, Salman Kirmani, and Shahnaz H. Ibrahim
Binge-watching behaviours: The impact on medical students in Pakistan, Zouina Sarfraz, Muzna Sarfraz, and Azza Sarfraz
Biosecurity-related biomedical laboratory practices in Pakistan: Educating personnel regarding transportation of biohazardous substances, Humaira Shafaq, Shahida Qureshi, and Sadia Shakoor
Self-attentive adversarial stain normalization, Aman Shrivastava, William Adorno, Lubaina Ehsan Lubaina Ehsan, Syed Asad Ali, Sean R. Moore, Beatrice C. Amadi, Paul Kelly, Sana Syed, and Donald E. Brown
Deep learning for visual recognition of environmental enteropathy and celiac disease, Aman Shrivastava, Karan Kant, Saurav Sengupta, Sung-Jun Kang, Marium Khan, Syed Asad Ali, Sean R. Moore, Beatrice C. Amadi, Paul Kelly, Donald E. Brown, and Sana Syed
Effect of lipid-based nutrient supplement - medium quantity on reduction of stunting in children 6-23 Months of age in Sindh, Pakistan: A cluster randomized controlled trial (OR25-06-19), Sajid Bashir Soofi, Gul Nawaz Khan Nawaz Khan, and Cecilia Garzon
3165 Diseased and healthy gastrointestinal tissue data mining requires an engaged transdisciplinary team, Sana Syed, Marium Naveed Khan, Alexis Catalano, Zambia Team, Pakistan Team, Christopher Moskaluk, Jason Papin, Syed Asad Ali, Sean R. Moore, and Donald E. Brown
Mo1992 – Solving the stain dilemma: Computational image analysis to address differential tissue staining color bias in duodenal biopsies, Sana Syed, Aman Shrivastava, Karan Kant, Saurav Sengupta, Luke Kang, Marium N. Khan, Najeeha Talat Iqbal, Kamran Sadiq, Christopher A. Moskaluk, and Syed Asad Ali
Factors associated with the discontinuation of modern methods of contraception in the low income areas of Sukh Initiative Karachi: A community-based case control study, Rozina Thobani, Saleem Jessani, Iqbal Azam Syed, Sayyeda Reza, Neelofar Sami, Shafquat Rozi, Farina Abrejo, and Sarah Saleem
A mixed method multi-Country assessment of barriers to implementing pediatric inpatient care guidelines, Kirkby D. Tickell, Dorothy I. Mangale, Stephanie N. Tornberg-Belanger, Celine Bourdon, Johnstone Thitiri, Molline Timbwa, Jenala Njirammadzi, Wieger Voskuijl, Ali Faisal Saleem, and Zaubina Kazi
Women and children living in areas of armed conflict in Africa: a geospatial analysis of mortality and orphanhood, Zachary Wagner, Sam Heft-Neal, Paul H. Wise, Robert E. Black, Marshall Burke, Ties Boerma, Zulfiqar Ahmed Bhutta, and Eran Bendavid
Back to the root causes of war: food shortages - Authors' reply, Zachary Wagner, Sam Heft Neal, Zulfiqar Ahmed Bhutta, Robert Black E, Marshall Burke, and Eran Bendavid
Short and midterm outcome of fallot’s tetralogy repair in infancy: A single center experience in a developing country, Muhammad Kamran Younis Memon, Saleem Akhtar, Muhammad Mohsin, Waris Ahmad, Aleena Arshad, and Mehnaz Atiq Ahmed
Ceftriaxone-resistant salmonella typhi outbreak in hyderabad city of sindh, Pakistan: High time for the introduction of typhoid conjugate vaccine, Mohammad Tahir Yousafzai, Farah Qamar, Sadia Shakoor, Khalid Saleem, Heeramani Lohana, Sultan Karim, Aneeta Hotwani, Shahida Qureshi, Naveed Masood, Mudasir Rauf, Jamshed Ahmed Khanzada, Abdul Momin Kazi, and Rumina Hasan
Development and validation of parental vaccine attitudes scale for use in low-income setting, Mohammad Tahir Yousafzai, Atif Riaz, Saad B. Omer, Sara Husain, Muhammad Imran Nisar, Waheed Mahesar, Danyal Omar Imam, Aaron Wallace, and Syed Asad Ali
Inherited metabolic disorders presenting as hypoxic ischaemic encephalopathy: A case series of patients presenting at a tertiary care hospital in Pakistan, Maya Zahid, Aysha Habib, Zabedah Md Yunus, Bee Chin Chen, Beat Steinmann, Haberle Johannes, and Bushra Afroze
Health systems changes after decentralisation: Progress, challenges and dynamics in Pakistan, Shehla Zaidi, Maryam Bigdeli, Etienne V. Langlois, Atif Riaz, David W. Orr, Nasir Idrees, and Jesse B. Bump
Submissions from 2018
Using misoprostol to treat postpartum hemorrhage in home deliveries attended by traditional birth attendants, Dina F. Abbas, Nusrat Jehan, Ayisha Diop, Jill Durocher, Meagan E. Byrne, Nadeem F. Zuberi, Zafar Ahmed, Gijs Walraven, and Beverly Winikoff
Spectrum of complications of severe DKA in children in pediatric intensive care unit, Qalab Abbas, Saba Arbab, Anwarul Haque, and Khadija Nuzhat Humayun
Training pediatric mechanical ventilation to front line pediatric physicians, Qalab Abbas, Lubaina Ehsan, Humaira Jurair, and Anwarul Haque
Brown-vialetto-van laere syndrome: A novel diagnosis to a common presentation, Qalab Abbas, Sidra Kaleem Jafri, Sidra Ishaque, and Arshalooz Rahman
Advancing universal health coverage in South Asian cities: A framework, Alayne M. Adams, Devaki Nambiar, Sameen Siddiqi, Bushra Binte Alam, and Srinath Reddy
Childhood-Onset systemic lupus erythematosus: a cohort study, Shakeel Ahmed, Syed Rehan Ali, Farida Karim, Sidra Ishaque, Iman Qaiser, Kanwal Nayani, and Ayesha Ahmed
Geospatial inequalities and determinants of nutritional status among women and children in Afghanistan: An observational study, Nadia Akseer, Zaid Ahmad Bhatti, Taufiq Mashal, Sajid Bashir Soofi, Rahim Moineddin, Robert E Black MD, and Zulfiqar Ahmed Bhutta
Status and drivers of maternal, newborn, child and adolescent health in the Islamic world: a comparative analysis, Nadia Akseer, Mahdis Kamali, Nour Bakhache, Maaz Mirza, Seema Mehta, Sara Al-Gashm, and Zulfiqar Ahmed Bhutta
Prevalence of prediabetes, diabetes, and Its associated risk factors among males in Saudi Arabia: A population-based survey, Khaled K. Aldossari, Abdulrahman Aldiab, Jamaan M. Al-Zahrani, Sameer H. Al-Ghamdi, Mohammed Abdelrazik, Mohammed Ali Batais, Sundas Javad, Shanila Nooruddin, Hira Abdul Razzak, and Ashraf El-Metwally
Prevalence of overweight and obesity based on the body mass index; a cross-sectional study in Alkharj, Saudi Arabia, Sameer Al-Ghamdi, Mamdouh M. Shubair, Abdulrahman Aldiab, Jamaan M. Al-Zahrani, Khaled K. Aldossari, Mowafa Househ, Shanila Nooruddin, Hira Abdul Razzak, and Ashraf El-Metwally
Accuracy of echocardiography in diagnosing total anomalous pulmonary venous return, Fatima Ali, Sonia Qureshi, Muneer Amanullah, and Mehnaz Atiq
Global trends in typhoidal salmonellosis: A systematic review, Daina Als, Amruta Radhakrishnan, Paul Arora, Michelle F. Gaffey, Susan Campisi, Russanthy Velummailum, Farhana Zareef, and Zulfiqar Ahmed Bhutta
Integrating facility-based surveillance with healthcare utilization surveys to estimate enteric fever incidence: Methods and challenges, Jason R. Andrews, Caitlin Barkume, Alexander T. Yu, Samir K. Saha, Farah Qamar, Denise Garrett, and Stephen P. Luby
Extensively drug-resistant typhoid — are conjugate vaccines arriving just in time?, Jason R. Andrews, Farah Qamar, Richelle C. Charles, and Edward T. Ryan
Exchangeable zinc pool size at birth in Pakistani small for gestational age and appropriate for gestational age infants do not differ but are lower than in US infants, Shabina Ariff, Nancy F. Krebs, Jamie E. Westcott, K Michael Hambidge, Leland V. Miller, Arjumand Rizvi, Sajid Bashir Soofi, and Zulfiqar A. Bhutta
Dietary practices of school children in Sindh, Pakistan, Ayesha Aziz, Mehak Pervaiz, Ayesha Khalid, Ayesha Zahid Khan, and Ghazala Rafique
Persistent diarrhoea: Current knowledge and novel concepts, Robert H. J. Bandsma, Kamran Sadiq, and Zulfiqar Ahmed Bhutta
Phase I of the surveillance for enteric fever in Asia project (SEAP): An overview and lessons learned, Caitlin Barkume, Kashmira Date, Samir K. Saha, Farah Qamar, Dipika Sur, Jason R. Andrews, Stephen P. Luby, M Imran Khan, Alex Freeman, Mohammad Tahir Yousafzai, and Denise Garret
Effect of life skills building education and micronutrient supplements provided from preconception versus the standard of care on low birth weight births among adolescent and young Pakistani women (15–24 years): A prospective, population-based cluster-randomized trial, Jo-Anna B. Baxter, Yaqub Wasan, Sajid Bashir Soofi, Zamir Suhag, and Zulfiqar Ahmed Bhutta
Effect of life skills building education and micronutrient supplements provided from preconception versus the standard of care on low birth weight births among adolescent and young Pakistani women (15–24 years): A prospective, population-based cluster-randomized trial, Jo-Anna B. Baxter, Yaqub Wasan, Sajid Bashir Soofi, Zamir Suhag, and Zulfiqar Ahmed Bhutta
Feasibility and effect of life skills building education and multiple micronutrient supplements versus the standard of care on anemia among non-pregnant adolescent and young Pakistani women (15-24 years): A prospective, population-based cluster-randomized trial, Jo-Anna B. Baxter, Yaqub Wasan, Sajid Bashir Soofi, Zamir Suhag, and Zulfiqar Ahmed Bhutta
Multiple-micronutrient supplementation: Evidence from large-scale prenatal programmes on coverage, compliance and impact, Cristiana Berti, Michelle F. Gaffey, Zulfiqar Ahmed Bhutta, and Irene Cetin
The dolphin trials: Nutritional supplementation for neonates and infants at risk, Zulfiqar Ahmed Bhutta
Alma Ata and primary healthcare: Back to the future, Zulfiqar Ahmed Bhutta, Rifat Atun, Navjoyt Ladher, and Kamran Abbasi
Reducing typhoid burden within a generation, Zulfiqar Ahmed Bhutta, Anita K. M. Zaidi, and Tikki Pangestu
Partnerships for child health: capitalising on links between the sustainable development goals, Yulia Blomstedt, Zulfiqar Ahmed Bhutta, Johan Dahlstrand, Peter Friberg, Lawrence O. Gostin, Måns Nilsson, Nelson K. Sewankambo, Göran Tomson, and Tobias Alfvén
Preparing for safety monitoring after rotavirus vaccine introduction – Assessment of baseline epidemiology of intussusception among children <2 years of age in four Asian>countries, Eleanor Burnett, Nguyen Van Trang, Ajit Rayamajhi, Mohammad Tahir Yousafzai, Syed M. Satter, Dang Duc Anh, Anupama Thapa, Saqib Hamid Qazi, James D. Heffelfinger, and Syed Asad Ali
Hemimegalencephaly: Seizure outcome in an infant after hemispherectomy, Prem Chand, Pooja Manglani, and Qalab Abbas
The feasibility of task-sharing the identification, emergency treatment, and referral for women with pre-eclampsia by community health workers in India, Umesh Charanthimath, Marianne Vidler, Geetanjali Katageri, Umesh Ramadurg, Chandrashekhar Karadiguddi, Avinash Kavi, Anjali Joshi, Geetanjali Mungarwadi, Rahat Qureshi, and Zulfiqar Ahmed Bhutta
Seasonality and within-subject clustering of rotavirus infections in an eight-site birth cohort study, J. M. Colston, A. M. S. Ahmed, Sajid Bashir Soofi, E. Svensen, R. Haque, J. Shrestha, R. Nshama, Zulfiqar Ahmed Bhutta, I. F. N. Lima, and A. Samie
Slaying little dragons: the impact of the Guinea Worm Eradication Program on dracunculiasis disability averted from 1990 to 2016, Elizabeth A. Cromwell, Sharon Roy, Dieudonne P. Sankara, Adam Weiss, Jeffrey Stanaway, Ellen Goldberg, David M. Pigott, Heidi Larson, Stein Emil Vollset, and Zulfiqar Ahmed Bhutta
Scaling up primary health services for improving reproductive, maternal, and child health: a multisectoral collaboration in the conflict setting of Afghanistan, Jai K. Das, Nadia Akseer, Shafiq Mirzazada, Omarwalid Noorzada, Corinne E. Armstrong, Kashif Mukhtar, Ahmed Jan Naeem, and Zulfiqar Ahmed Bhutta
Fly control to prevent diarrhoea in children, Jai K. Das, Yousaf Bashir Hadi, Rehana Salam, Mehar Hoda, Zohra S. Lassi, and Zulfiqar Ahmed Bhutta
Lipid‐based nutrient supplements for maternal, birth, and infant developmental outcomes, Jai K. Das, Zahra Hoodbhoy, Rehana Salam, Afsah Zulfiqar Bhutta, Nancy G. Valenzuela‐Rubio, Zita Weise Prinzo, and Zulfiqar Ahmed Bhutta
Nutrition for the next generation: older children and adolescents, Jai K. Das, Zohra S. Lassi, Zahra Hoodbhoy, and Rehana Salam
Novel public-private partnerships to address the double burden of malnutrition, Adam Drewnowski, Benjamin Caballero, Jai K. Das, Jeff French, Andrew M. Prentice, Lisa R. Fries, Tessa M van Koperen, Petra Klassen-Wigger, and Barbara J. Rolls
What’s coming for health science and policy in 2018? global experts look ahead in their field, The PLOS Medicine Editors, Soumya Swaminathan, Robin S. Room, Louise C. Ivers, Graham Hillis, Rebecca F. Grais, Zulfiqar Ahmed Bhutta, and Peter Byass
Clinical utility of endocrine markers predicting myocardial siderosis in transfusion dependent thalassemia major, Lubaina Ehsan, Mariam Rashid, Najveen Alvi, Khadija Awais, Omair Nadeem, Aleezay Asghar, Fatimah Sajjad, Malika Fatima, Sadaf Altaf, Babar Hasan, and Salman Kirmani
Measuring and understanding social-emotional behaviors in preschoolers from rural Pakistan, Jenna E. Finch, Aisha Khizar Yousafzai, Muneera Rasheed, and Jelena Obradović
Oral ondansetron administration to nondehydrated children with diarrhea and associated vomiting in emergency departments in Pakistan: A randomized controlled trial, Stephen B. Freedman, Sajid Bashir Soofi, Andrew R. Willan, Sarah Williamson Urquhart, Noshad Ali, Jianling Xie, Fady Dawoud, and Zulfiqar Ahmed Bhutta
Intergenerational burden and risks of NCDs: need to promote maternal and child health, Mark Hanson, Zulfiqar Ahmed Bhutta, Katie Dain, Carlos Fuchtner, and Moshe Hod
Outcome of traumatic brain injury in children by using rotterdam score on computed tomography, Anwarul Haque, Zehra Dhanani, Amin Ali, Basit Salam, Qalab Abbas, Gohar Javed, and Humaira Jurair
Impact of pharmacist-led antibiotic stewardship program in a PICU of low/middle-income country, Anwarul Haque, Kashif Hussain, Romesa Ibrahim, Qalab Abbas, Shah Ali Ahmed, Humaira Jurair, and Syed Asad Ali
Rotavirus vaccine response correlates with the infant gut microbiota composition in Pakistan, Vanessa Harris, Syed Asad Ali, Susana Fuentes, Abdul Momin Kazi, Jacqueline Tate, Umesh Parashar, W. Joost Wiersinga, Carlo Giaquinto, Carolina De Weerth, and Willem M. De Vos
Emergence of an extensively drug-resistant salmonella enterica serovar typhi clone harboring a promiscuous plasmid encoding resistance to fluoroquinolones and third-generation cephalosporins, Rumina Hasan, Sadia Shakoor, Farah Naz Farid, Dania Khalid Saeed, Ghazala Shaheen, Shahida Qureshi, Mohammad Tahir Yousafzai, Muhammad Khalid Salim, Zahra Hasan, Elizabeth J. Klemma, Andrew J. Page, Kim Judge, Vanessa K. Wong, Timothy J. Dallman, Satheesh Nair, Stephen Baker, and Gordon Dougan
Machine learning from fetal flow waveforms to predict adverse perinatal outcomes: A study protocol, Zahra Hoodbhoy, Babar Hasan, Fyezah Jehan, Bart Bijnens, and Devyani Chowdhury
Impact of pre-eclampsia on the cardiovascular health of the offspring: a cohort study protocol, Zahra Hoodbhoy, Babar Hasan, Nuruddin Badruddin Mohammed, and Devyani Chowdhury
Household chores as the main source of physical activity: Perspectives of pregnant Pakistani women, Zahra Hoodbhoy, Rahat Qureshi, Romaina Iqbal, and Qamarunissa Muhabat