OBJECTIVE National audit of informed choice in antenatal screening for thalassaemia. DESIGN Audit from the UK Confidential Enquiry into Counselling for Genetic Disorders. SETTING Thalassaemia module of the UK Confidential Enquiry into Counselling for Genetic Disorders. SUBJECTS 138 of 156 couples who had had a pregnancy affected by a major beta thalassaemia from 1990 to 1994. MAIN OUTCO...

OBJECTIVE To determine the distribution of HCV genotypes among the patients attending a tertiary care hospital in Dubai, UAE. METHODS This was a descriptive study conducted from January 2009 to June 2009 in the Medical and Infectious Diseases clinics at Rashid Hospital Dubai. The study was designed to include patient's demographics, clinical information including the various risk factors for ...

This study attempts an empirical analysis of the effect external remittance on labor productivity in Pakistan. used time series data from 1975 to 2019. The Johanson co-integration approach and Trace Maximum Lamda tests were for economic analysis. personal remittance, Gross Fixed Capital Formation (GFCF), Officially Exchange Rate (PER) depicted significant positive relationships Foreign Direct I...

This article discusses relationships between temporariness and belonging among Pakistani middle-class migrants in Dubai. We explore reasons that push them to move Dubai how their professional position temporary status affect sense of belonging. Based upon unstructured interviews with 20 Pakistanis, our findings show is problematized, but not explicitly contested, by the participants, who all ex...

Abstract Background The Novel Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) has created havoc globally as countries worldwide struggle to combat this pandemic. Since prevention and social isolation are known be the only ways prevent spread of COVID-19, challenges among lower-middle income (LMIC) including Pakistan, it battles between an under-resourced healthcare, economic shutdown, widespread myths misconcep...

OBJECTIVE To compare the prevalence of type 2 diabetes in white Europeans and individuals of African-Caribbean and Pakistani descent. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS Random sampling of population-based registers in inner-city Manchester, Britain's third most impoverished area. A total of 1,318 people (25-79 years of age) were screened (minimum response 67%); 533 individuals without known diabetes...