Handwashing program decreases incidence of diarrhea among children in Pakistan
An intensive program of handwashing education and promotion in Pakistan decreased the incidence of diarrhea by more than 50 percent among children, according to a study in the June 2 issue of The Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), a theme issue on Global Health. ......Stephen P. Luby, M.D., of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, presented the findings of t...UT Southwestern's Dr. Charles Pak receives international award for kidney-stone research
DALLAS May 27, 2004 Dr. Charles Y.C. Pak, a world-renowned leader in mineral metabolism research and professor of internal medicine at UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, today received the International Urolithiasis Society's Lifetime Contributions in Stone Disease Award at its symposium in Hong Kong.... ...The prestigious award, bestowed every four years, honors the top international re...Social problems linked to mental illness in Pakistan
In Pakistan, relationship problems and financial difficulties are linked to anxiety and depression, whereas supportive family and friends may protect against the development of these disorders, finds researchers in this week's BMJ....... These disorders are an emerging public health threat in low income countries....... Researchers analysed 20 studies conducted in Pakistan that focused on anxiety...Program evaluation critical to Pakistani doctoral retainment
Pakistan devotes considerable financial resources to educate and train skilled scientists and health care works, but these trained professionals continue to leave for developed countries rather than remain in Pakistan, according to faculty at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. ... The researchers say this attrition further decreases the number of future health professionals bein...Drug companies responded poorly to requests for information from doctors in Pakistan
. ... Many doctors in the developing world do not receive adequate or appropriate responses then they request product information from drug companies, claim doctors from Pakistan in this week's BMJ. Assad Hafeez from Khan Research Laboratories Hospital in Islamabad and Zafar Mirza from The Network for Rational Use of Medication in Pakistan believe that the decision to respond to a request for m...