COMMUNITY BASED SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT FOR WOMEN’S EMPOWERMENT COURSE

(April 7 – 26, 2008)

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Live Workshop on
MINIMAL ACCESS SURGERY


Organized by:
Minimal Access Surgery Unit (MASU)
Department of Paediatric & General Surgery
Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences
Islamabad

Date & Venue
PIMS Auditorium
8th -10th March 2008
Seats are limited
Registration fee: Rs. 1200/-
Registration is mandatory for participation



Organizers: Registration:
Dr S H Waqar Dr S Fahad Shah
Assistant Professor Dr Tanveer Sadiq Ch
MASU, Department of General Surgery General Surgery
Unit-III (SW-6)
PIMS, Islamabad Contact: 9261170 (Ext. 2568)
Email: drshwaqar@...
0334 - 534 4359





      
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Subject: Request to grace the seminar on "Breast Cancer" on Saturday 8th March 2008 at Avari Towers Karachi.

  

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The Chairman & Board of Governors

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Request to grace the seminar on

 

“Breast Cancer”

 

on Saturday 8^th March 2008 at Avari Towers Karachi

 

Chief Guest for the ceremony

 

His Excellency

Dr. Ishrat ul Ebad Khan

Governor of Sindh

 

Guest Speaker

 

Dr. Zainab Waqar

M.B.B.S, M.S.C., PGC - IPHC

 

Speaker

 

Dr. Syeda Farha Faisal

MBBS

 

Your participation shall be highly appreciated

 

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Burn Centre, Dow University, Karachi - Pakistan
Burn Centre, Indore - India

JOHANNESBURG, 18 February 2008 (PlusNews) - The first microbicide candidate to reach the final phase of testing has failed to prevent HIV transmission, researchers announced on Monday. Testing of the microbicide, Carraguard, was carried out over a three-year period on 6,000 women in South Africa, and was completed in March 2007. But there was no difference in HIV infections between women in the group using Carraguard compared to the placebo group.

"The trial ... was unable to demonstrate Carraguard's efficacy in preventing HIV transmission," noted Dr Khatija Ahmed, principal investigator of the trial. The microbicide developed by the Population Council, an international non-profit organisation, contains carrageenan, which is derived from seaweed and widely used in the food and cosmetics industries as a gel, stabiliser and thickening agent. Laboratory, animal and early human tests suggested it might prevent HIV and other sexually spread infections, but Ahmed admitted that "what Carraguard showed in the lab couldn't be converted to humans".

She suggested that the low adherence rate could have been a factor: women who participated in the study used Carraguard less than half the number of times they had sex, and only 10 percent said they used it every time as directed. However, condom use shot up from 33 percent when the study began, to 64 percent. While acknowledging that the news was a disappointment, Ahmed stressed that the Carraguard trial was a "major milestone for microbicide development", as the trial had been completed with no safety concerns being raised.

This is another setback in the race to develop an effective microbicide - applied via a range of products like gels, films and sponges - that could help women prevent the transmission of HIV and other sexually transmitted infections. In 2000, a large full-scale trial showed that nonoxynol-9, a potential microbicide, was unsafe after women in the study developed a higher risk of HIV infection.

Seven years later, microbicide research was dealt another blow when the US-based reproductive health research organisation, CONRAD, announced the premature end of trials of a cellulose sulphate-based microbicide after the data safety and monitoring committee found a higher number of infections in the active group compared to the placebo group.

Advocates and researchers are reluctant to describe this trial as a setback. Fiona Scorgie, programmes coordinator at the Gender AIDS Forum, a non-governmental organisation monitoring microbicide trials in South Africa, told IRIN/PlusNews that although the end result had been disappointing, the trial had been "successful on another level".

The women participating in the trials had benefited from regular health screenings, while the safety of Carraguard meant that it could be used in future microbicide trials as a "vehicle for more specific substances, like antiretrovirals", but further development was needed. According to Scorgie, communities also had to be involved in the process, rather than being passive recipients. "Communities have a very important role to play ... it's important that we inform ourselves and remain critical".

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Patients with advanced liver disease due to alcoholism have the same
survival rate after a liver transplant as nonalcoholic patients do, a
University of Pittsburgh study reports.

About 6 percent of the 666 adult patients who received a liver
transplant in Pittsburgh between 1980 and mid-1987-41 patients in all-
were alcoholics. Their one-year survival rate was 73 percent, which is
not significantly different from that of the 625 other liver
transplant patients, the study found.


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Starting 29 February 2008, the United Kingdom will be replacing the extension rules for the Highly Skilled Migrant Programme (HSMP) with the new Tier 1 system for General Highly Skilled Migrants. The new rules are part of its five-tier points based immigration system that will be implemented over the course of the next year.

After 29 February, any migrants currently within the United Kingdom seeking to extend their leave to remain as a highly skilled migrant will be required to score enough points under the Tier 1 points based scoring system for General Highly Skilled Migrants.

The number of points a migrant must score to extend their visa under Tier 1 remains the same as the current HSMP rules. However, the MBA provision will be removed and migrants can claim points for UK work experience. English language requirements are also more stringent, approximately equal to an overall band score of 6.5 on the International English Language Testing System (IELTS).

In April, people from India seeking to enter the UK as a highly skilled migrant for the first time will be required to come under the new Tier 1 rules. In the summer of 2008, the rest of the world will follow.

 

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ESRC Innogen Centre 1+3 and +3 studentship

The ESRC Centre for Social and Economic Research on Innovation in Genomics, based at the University of Edinburgh and at the Open University, invites applications from candidates wishing to pursue doctoral research on topics in the life sciences, biotechnology and related areas. Innogen is a designated outlet for ESRC 1+3 and +3 PhD studentships, available for UK or EU students. UK student awards cover fees and maintenance; EU students normally receive fees only; part-time students receive the fees plus pro rata maintenance. 1+3 awards combine 1 year of MSc research training with 3 years' PhD funding. +3 awards are for applicants who have already completed a year of ESRC-recognised research training. ESRC national competition awards, ESRC quota awards in STS, and various other funding opportunities are also available for the Programme.

The deadline for applications for a studentship to be held at Edinburgh is 21 March 2008, and candidates must have contacted the Innogen Deputy Director and submitted an application for the programme by that time.

For further information on the studentships and the applications procedure, and suggestions for research topics in the area of the life sciences and biotechnology, see http://www.issti.ed.ac.uk/study, or contact Dr Catherine Lyall, Deputy Director and Innogen Centre Manager, c.lyall@...

Deadline: 21 March 2008

 

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Department of Operative Dentistry (Cariology) &

Dental Material Science,
Sardar Begum Dental College,
Gandhara University
Canal Road, Academy Town,
Peshawar 25120, Pakistan.
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Hospitals won't get to bill for errors.

As of October, Medicare will no longer cover treatment resulting from eight types of mistakes, and patients won't have to pay. States and private insurers are also pushing for change.       By Melinda Fulmer

Under pressure from large private insurers, state governments and Medicare, hospitals around the country are now agreeing not to charge when they make medical mistakes, also called "never events" because they shouldn't happen.T hough it may sound like a no-brainer not to charge patients who had surgery on the wrong body part or were disabled from the wrong medication, in the hospital world it is a revolution

That's beginning to change, experts say. Starting in October, Medicare, which covers 44 million elderly and disabled people, won't pay for treatment resulting from eight types of hospital errors, including surgical objects left in a patient during surgery, patient falls, catheter-caused urinary-tract infections and pressure sores, the most common preventable medical error.

Nor will hospitals be able to bill injured patients for these conditions. So a patient who in the course of treatment for a heart attack incurred pressure sores -- bedsores -- would be billed only for the cardiac treatment.

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This 13-inch-long surgical retractor was left in the body of Donald Church, of Lynnwood, Wash., by a University of Washington Medical Center surgeon during an operation to remove a tumor in June 2000.

The Australian Medical Association (AMA) is calling for urgent action to increase the number of GPs in regional Victoria, setting its hopes on doctors considering immigration.

Shocking new figures show that the state has gained only one GP between 1996 and 2006. But Victoria's population has grown by more than 500,000 within that decade, meaning that it's in dire need for doctors. It's clear that more doctors must be brought in, either via other regions in Australia or immigration, because many GPs are suffering burn-out as figures show a huge jump in patient-doctor ratios. They're suffering health problems and chronic stress, and some have been forced to close their books to new patients.

And it's no wonder why. Health chiefs claim that half a million new Victorians are sharing just one GP. Federal Government figures revealed the average number of patients per GP rose from 759 in 1996-07 to 841 in 2006-07. In rural areas the shortage is even worse, where there can be more than 1700 patients for every doctor.

"Many Victorians, in regional and metropolitan areas, simply cannot get an appointment," said AMA state Vice-president Harry Hemley, who fears that the situation will only get worse as many older doctors leave the workforce.

Health chiefs are urging the federal and state government to increase the amount of doctors in order to resolve the massive shortage of general practitioners, meaning that immigration could bring in the numbers needed.  Areas that are feeling the doctor pinch the most are Ballarat, Bendigo, East Gippsland, Wodonga, Mornington Peninsula, Knox and the Goulburn Valley, while the AMA has predicted that North-East Victoria will feel it quite badly over the next five to 10 years if something is not done.

"In the next five years, Victoria will face the largest shortage of doctors the state has ever seen," said Dr Hemley. "The State and Federal Governments should ensure we get new GPs trained as soon as possible.''Even though there has been an increase in student doctors, it will be up to 10 years before they can actually start to practise.  "It'll take until about 2010, 2011 when the number of doctors graduating will double in Victoria, but still they've got to go through the training program and that takes another five years to be a GP," said Dr Hemley.

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