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What ails health care

AdipoRon may be benefit for atherosclerosis prevention

Atherosclerosis has serious role in coronary arteries disease,so it is important to establish effective strategies for prevention or even treatment of atherosclerosis. Adiponectin, as one of the most abundant adipokines, has insulin sensitivity, anti-inflammatory and anti-atherogenic properties. Disturbed adiponectin actions through its receptor, (AdipoR1 and AdipoR2) may be involved in atheros...

What Ails the Present Medical Care?

In spite of the vast amount of medical data at our disposal, there are limitations and drawbacks of medical care. This is due to the defective medical knowledge - the restricted narrow concepts of human being, illness, etiology and treatment. This has resulted in undue emphasis on physical aspect of human existence ignoring the mental and spiritual aspects in understanding the illness and treat...

#374 - Asthma: Prevention May Be The Only Cure

These averages hide important facts about the people hardest hit. Among African-Americans, the age-adjusted death rate from asthma climbed from 1.9 per 100,000 in 1979 to 2.6 per 100,000 in 1984, a 37% increase in 5 years. Among whites, the age-adjusted increase during the same period was 25% (from 0.8 per 100,000 to 1.0 per 100,000).[4] The asthma death rate is nearly three times as high among...

What ails the Pakistani medical institutions?

Open Access Despite the fact that there is no dearth of talent in Pakistan, our contributions to medical literature and research is very negligible as compared to other Muslim countries like Islamic Republic of Iran, Turkey and even Saudi Arabia. Even our neighboring countries like India and Bangladesh have made tremendous progress during the last two decades but our performance in this field l...