What ails medical research in Pakistan? Role of institutions

What ails medical research in Pakistan? Role of institutions.

Open Access The tremendous advancement in medical research in USA owes much to the Flexner's report in 1910 which suggested making the scientific research an essential component of medical curriculum. 1 National Institute of Health (NIH) of the United States during 1946-50, put the biomedical research as its top priority and faculty was encouraged to implant the " virus of curiosity and inquiry...

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...

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...

What ails health care

Getting Rid of What Ails Us

DIAL (dihedral alignment) is a web server that provides public access to a new dynamic programming algorithm for pairwise 3D structural alignment of RNA. DIAL achieves quadratic time by performing an alignment that accounts for (i) pseudo-dihedral and/or dihedral angle similarity, (ii) nucleotide sequence similarity and (iii) nucleotide base-pairing