Surgery in South Asia

Surgery in South Asia.

Unmet need for surgery in South Asia.

Generic endemism in South-West Asia: an overview

A provisional list of all the endemic vascular plant genera in SW Asia is presented. The area, here defined to include Turkey, the Caucasus, N Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan and adjacent parts of Pakistan and Central Asia, has 161 genera restricted to it. By far, the greatest numbers of the endemic genera are in Apiaceae, Brassicaceae and Asteraceae; many are morphologically isolated and occur at rand...

Multiple Sclerosis Epidemiology in East Asia, South East Asia and South Asia: A Systematic Review.

BACKGROUND Multiple sclerosis (MS) is one of the most common chronic immune-mediated diseases of the human central nervous system and an important cause of non-traumatic neurologic disability among young population in several countries. Recent reports from East Asia, South East Asia and South Asia have proposed a low to moderate prevalence of MS in these countries. METHODS A literature review...

Security Challenges in South Asia

Former President Bill Clinton described South Asia as the most dangerous place on earth. We in Pakistan agree with this characterization. It is indeed ironic that the extremely enterprising and hard working people of South Asia, who have achieved such success in their endeavors abroad, have been unable to resolve their mutual differences in order to harness the immense economic potential of the...