Articles with tag: Health
Communicating Medical Errors
Prashant Bhatt Nov 19, 2009 interacts: 3Unanticipated unfavorable outcomes are expected in complex modern medicine. How will you like your doctor to disclose unanticipated unfavorable outcomes?
Hey America, Come Join The Civilized World!
Dost Mittar Sep 29, 2009 interacts: 315The US has the least efficient healthcare system which spends most for getting the least results. So, America, come join the civilized world and save some money.
The Whole Business of Compulsive Eating
Kiran Nazish Sep 11, 2009 interacts: 10In spite of widespread dissemination of information about healthy nutrition over the past decade, it seems that eating habits of most people have become increasingly unbalanced.
Why Do Pakistani Women Have the Highest Rates of Breast Cancer in Asia?
Laaleen Khan Sep 10, 2009 interacts: 28Early detection saves lives. Get you and your loved ones to do annual mammograms and ultrasounds! Pay for poor women's screenings and treatments.
Pakistan Crisis - Seven Problem, Seven Solutions
Khalid Sohail Aug 7, 2009 interacts: 129Pakistan is experiencing a major existential crisis. But crises are mixed blessings which can lead to regression or progression. They can cause a breakdown or become a fertile ground for a breakthrough.
How Pakistan Killed My Father
Saeed Shiekh Jul 5, 2009 interacts: 17That boy perishing away in hospital due to the fake medicines could have been another Allama Iqbal. That girl who died because no one attended her in time could have been the next prime minister of this nation and rebuilt it.
Plastics In Our Environs
junaid jazib Jun 6, 2009 interacts: 2Every time we use and throw a plastic product we contribute our share to a deadly pollution whose far-reaching and irreversible ill-effects will be borne by the generations to come.
Because the Doctor Said So
Sarwar Sukhera May 6, 2009 interacts: 8Let’s face it; living is all about eating and since life is short, I eat a lot. I relish all that is considered by the medics harmful. Yet, the only thing growing in my body is the belly.
Creepy Chemicals
Mutaal Mooquin Dec 18, 2008 interacts: 15This Holiday season, toys containing harmful phthalates, which are known endocrine disruptors, will fill up the shelve space in the markets.
Leprosy : The Shadow Lingers
Shantanu Dutta Nov 18, 2008 interacts: 1Medically, leprosy is detected early and thanks to a multi drug regime, cured early too. And yet piles of archaic legislation keep those infected on the margins of society.
They Will Seal The Case Sheets!
Prashant Bhatt Oct 12, 2008 interacts: 4How are doctors affected when their treatment plans go wrong? What is the difference between complications, difference of opinion and negligence?
Love at Shara Zawia
Prashant Bhatt Oct 5, 2008 interacts: 1Muneer and Emily had gone to Tangiers to register their marriage, as many foreigners who marry in Libya do.
Emily does not like to talk about these things.
Diabetes: Wrestling with a Twenty-First Century Monster
Mutaal Mooquin Jul 2, 2008 interacts: 50“Half of world’s population at risk of diabetes by end of next decade.� This disorder is encroaching on the traditional confines of age, ethnicity, and geography—in particular AGE.
The Brain Food
NoorAli Noorani May 1, 2008 interacts: 20Eat your carrots; you’ll see better in the dark. Don’t go swimming until an hour after you eat. It turns out that some of these have stood the test of time.
Healthcare in Pakistan, Lessons from Cuba
Mahvish Zehra Jun 13, 2008 interacts: 18Cuba has the most impressive doctor to patient ratio of 1 to 175. All this and more while facing more than 40 years of US trade and financial embargoes.
Paper Trail
Mutaal Mooquin Jun 5, 2008 interacts: 6To produce five sheets of 8 x 11 inch paper we use the equivalent energy of an 80 watt bulb operating for an hour; but at a cost far greater than that of electricity.
Kiss of Death
Tazeen Javed Apr 22, 2008 interacts: 7Unlike cigarettes, gutka comes without a health warning and lack of awareness of its impact on health increases its consumption.
Better Living through Chemistry
Ali Hashmi Jun 28, 2007 interacts: 14What would you give for a pill that made you happy or thin or helped erase the pain of losing a loved one?
The Anatomy of a Smile
Tanya Ahmed May 29, 2007 interacts: 14“With two years or so of braces, your smile can be improved wonderfully!” So spoke The Dentist.
Reflections on the Virginia Tech School Tragedy
Khalid Sohail Apr 25, 2007 interacts: 143In this land of eminent scientists, avant-garde artists and Oscar award winning actors and directors, we also see the worst serial killers and mass murderers. For some their dreams come true and for others they turn into violent nightmares.
Medicalising Pakistan
Zaheeruddin Babar Jan 8, 2007 interacts: 21A recent visit to Pakistan was the eye opening one. There was one pharmacy in my neighborhood a few years ago, but now the small street is sprawling with five pharmacies and all are doing “wonderful business”.
Leprosy
Ashwini Ahuja Dec 1, 2006 interacts: 3Urvishi is unhappy and silent, walks sluggishly. Did ever Sahil before it watch her slothful? No, no, no. Might a humorous girl grow worried? And much distraught too. She is a silly girl. Silly, silly, silly. Sahil announces.
Cancer Can’t Kill
sehar javaid Nov 26, 2006 interacts: 14Boosting immunity and fighting infections can prolong the life.
The Birth of a Voice
Sheela Jaywant Jun 16, 2006 interacts: 3Other than the hoarseness, there was no other indication that he was ill. Unknown to him, this 75-year-old bachelor, an air-conditioning specialist who loved his cigarettes, had developed a malignancy.
Counterfeit Medicines: A Public Health Policy Failure
Zaheeruddin Babar Dec 31, 2005 interacts: 4The responsibility to tackle this problem does not only lie with the government. All stakeholders must be involved and should join forces against this menace
Pharmacy Education and Practice in Pakistan: Are They Affecting our Healthcare System
Zaheeruddin Babar Aug 30, 2005 interacts: 11In the last 5 years, there has been a rise in the number of pharmacy institutions in the country; currently about 17 universities are imparting pharmacy education. Though, the number of institutions has almost doubled, the change is more quantitative than
Faraz
Xari Jalil Jun 29, 2005 interacts: 25Deeply indulgent in philosophy, classical music and Jaun Elia, Faraz was a thinker more than anything else. He spent much of his time conversing about life, the meaning of existence, and yes death.
Diabetes: Care and Cure
S A Rahman Jun 19, 2005 interacts: 14It is a good idea to take up some form of regular physical activity, such as walking, swimming, dancing or cycling. Consult your doctor or diabetes nurse before taking up any regular exercise, particularly if you are overweight.
The first time I quit
Zehra Rizvi May 19, 2005 interacts: 39Three of my smoking neighbors pass by outside my window. They are sweet and I have been collected by them already. A collection amounts to a wave and a smile.
When I’m at the Gym
Sameena Iqbal Mar 13, 2005 interacts: 29Omigosh Sameena! Push yourself you are almost there...
Bottled Water: A False Sense of Security
ijaz gul Oct 17, 2004 interacts: 17Barring Nestle which itself is artificial pure water lacking a balance in minerals thereby causing dehydration rather than removing it, most other brands are highly contaminated by chemicals or bacteria.
Jinnah Hospital
Rozaiba Aug 3, 2003 interacts: 32Dried juice stains decorate the stall which is surrounded by decaying fruit peels. A tired guard helplessly watches as endless crowds enter and leave the building
Yesterday and Tomorrow in India Today
Dost Mittar Jun 7, 2003 interacts: 166Here was, then, the India of yesterday: poor, hungry, mired in poverty, highly dependent upon the vagaries of weather and yet full of life with colour, dance and music.
Smoking in PIA
Q Isa Daudpota May 31, 2003 interacts: 25one wishes that our decision makers were as sensitive as the smoke detectors
Spare Us The Smoke, Please!
Madiha Waris May 26, 2003 interacts: 52non-smokers seriously need to start realizing their right to health and safety
How to kill your Wife (Unedited)
malik khar May 26, 2003 interacts: 74for killing women, a plethora of options are available
Midnight's Knights?
Farzana Versey Dec 29, 2002 interacts: 152Both Rushdie and Naipaul belong to the streets. They are clinging to roots they have no claims over.
Saveray Jo Kal Aankh Meri Khuli
Mohammad Gill Dec 14, 2002 interacts: 18When a jackal is hounded by death, he heads towards the city...
Caesar, Mata Hari, and Mirza
Godot Mar 22, 2002 interacts: 45Translated from Urdu, a story by Mushtaq Ahmed Yusufi (1962)
We, The Fake
anNy Nov 11, 2001 interacts: 78where you feel ugly and poor if you have no flesh on display
My Sahib
Godot Aug 14, 2001 interacts: 117An English translation of Saadat Hasan Manto’s ‘Mera Sahib’
The German Psychiatrist and His Rubber Parrot
Panini Oct 21, 2000 interacts: 25It began with this strange one-legged German psychiatrist with a
The Louder Echo
Nauman Khalid May 14, 2000 interacts: 2children are more comfortable, knowledgeable, and literate than their parents
Passive Smoking - Time to say NO!
Q Isa Daudpota Apr 26, 2000 interacts: 21Attitudes to smoke and smoking have changed worldwide
Goodbye, yellow brick road..
Shandana Minhas Feb 12, 2000 interacts: 23today is the first day of my last week as a teacher...
The Daily Grind
Saad Shafqat Dec 5, 1998 interacts: 51Deodorant and excrement in Karachi, circa 1985.
Evil Spirits Travel in Straight Lines
Sheldon Pacotti Oct 19, 1998 interacts: 3Two French scientists go to Senegal to fight a resistant strain of malaria.
Aitchison: Scenes From Within
Asim Hayat Mar 3, 1998 interacts: 25...the old architecture, the grand cricket pitch in the main grounds, the smell of the rose bushes, the water heater radiators which never functioned well...
