Notwithstanding the numerous expeditions against the warlike tribes on the north-west and north-east frontiers of British India within recent years, there is a remarkable dearth, in medical literature, of information regarding the nature of tho diseases from which the troops suffered during thoso expeditions, and of the wounds inflicted upon them by the enemy. To meet this want in some small me...

BACKGROUND Reducing maternal mortality is a critical issue in Pakistan. Do public health care centers in Pakistan's North West Frontier Province (NWFP) comply with minimum UN recommendations for availability, use, and quality of basic and comprehensive Emergency Obstetric Care (EmOC) as measured by UN process indicators? METHODS All public health facilities providing EmOC (n = 50) in 30% of d...

Of 188 (144 renal, 29 bladder, 15 ureteric) stones analysed, 109 (58%) were pure calcium oxalate stones and in 177 (94%) calcium oxalate was the main component. The remaining were of mixed composition containing calcium phosphate, uric acid and calcium hydrogen phosphate. Serum calcium levels in 50 patients with pure calcium oxalate stones were normal. Majority of the cases (76%) came from the ...

A research project was carried out at Institute of Radiotherapy and Nuclear Medicine (IRNUM) Peshawar, in order to investigate the prevalence of different types of leukemias in North West Frontier Province of Pakistan, during 2001. During this study 60 leukemia patients admitted at IRNUM were investigated. It was found that acute leukemia was more prevalent than chronic leukemia as 90% of total...

BACKGROUND Pakistan has a high incidence of cancer. The most severely affected province is the North West Frontier Province, which has districts of low socioeconomic status such as those in Dir. The purpose of this study was to analyze the cancer registry record of patients from the districts in Dir in order to obtain a net cancer incidence for use in proposing future health plans. METHODS Th...

The term focal epithelial hyperplasia was introduced in 1965 to describe certain multiple nodular elevations of the oral mucosa observed among American Indians in New Mexico, USA and Mato Grossa district in Brazil. Since then it has been reported from several other countries including Iraq, Israel and South Africa. We report two cases of this disorder from North Western Frontier Province of Pak...