background and objective: laboratory errors are one of the major factors that affect the diagnosis, prognosis, treatment and monitoring in patients.the objective of study is to evaluate the frequency and type of errors in different phases of testing at the pathology department of the shalamar hospital, lahore and to evaluate the causes of errors. methods: this observational study was carried o...

Meraj Rahim1*, Mariam Rahim2, Masood Anwar Qureshi1, Shaheen Sharafat3, Zaman Shaikh4, Munim Abdul Rahim5 and Mubashir Zafar6 1Department of Physiology Dow University of Health Sciences, Karachi, Pakistan 2Final year MBBS student, Dow Medical College, Dow University of Health Sciences, Karachi, Pakistan 3Department of Microbiology, Dow University of Health Sciences, Karachi, Pakistan 4Departmen...

Faisal SHAHZAD*, Muhammad ABDULLAH, Abdul Shakoor CHAUDHRY, Abu Saeed HASHMI, Jalees Ahmed BHATTI, Makhdum Abdul JABBAR, Hafiz Muhammad ALI, Tauseef Ur REHMAN, Farah ALI, Mian Muhammad Khubaib SATTAR, Fayyaz AHMED, Irfan IRSHAD University College of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, The Islamia University of Bahawalpur, Bahawalpur, Pakistan Department of Livestock Production, University of Veteri...

1 Department of Urology, Faculty of Medicine and Allied Health Sciences, University of Faisalabad, Faisalabad, Punjab, Pakistan. 2 Department of Nephrology, Faculty of Medicine, Islamic International Medical College, Islamabad, Pakistan. 3 Department of Urology, Faculty of Medical and Dental Sciences, Bahria University, Islamabad, Pakistan. 4 Department of Surgical Oncology, Shifa Tameer-e-Mill...

Farhat Ali Khan and Shabana Irum Department of Botany, Hazara University Mansehra, Pakistan Shazia Erum and Aish Muhammad Plant Genetic Resource Institute, National Agricultural Research Centre, Islamabad, Pakistan Faisal Nouroz Department of Botany, Hazara University Mansehra, Pakistan and Molecular Genetics Laboratory, Department of Biology, University of Leicester, UK Saima Kanwal Food Scien...

ily planning services and methods represent only a means to a predetermined end. It is indeed difficult to demonstrate empirically that family planning programs have played a significant role in reducing desired fertility. Critics have noted the important contribution that the availability of family planning services makes to reducing unwanted fertility,3 but what of the role of family planning...

M u h a m m a d S h a iq A li* a, T o m o y a K ita z u m e b, V iq a r U d d in A h m a d 3 a H. E. J. R esearch Institute of Chemistry, U niversity of Karachi, Karachi-75270, Pakistan b D epartm ent of Bioengineering, Faculty of Biosciences & Biotechnology, Tokyo Institute of Technolgy, 4259 N agatsuta-cho, M idori-ku, Y okoham a 227, Japan Z. N aturforsch. 52b, 413-418 (1997); received D ece...

The Idiocerinae of Pakistan are reviewed and a new species, Tasnimocerus sindhensis sp. nov. (Pakistan: Tandojam), is described and illustrated from Pakistan. Two new junior synonyms of Idioscopus nitidulus (Walker) are recognized: Idioscopus karachiensis Ahmed, Naheed & Ahmed syn. nov. and I. freytagi Ahmed, Naheed & Ahmed syn. nov. Idioscopus nagpurensis (Pruthi) is newly recorded from Pakist...

ABDUL HANNAN BASIT, WAJID ARSHAD ABBASI, AMINA ASIF, AND FAYYAZ UL AMIR AFSAR MINHAS † Biomedical Informatics Research Laboratory, Department of Computer and Information Sciences, Pakistan Institute of Engineering and Applied Sciences (PIEAS), Nilore, Islamabad, Pakistan Department of Electrical Engineering, Pakistan Institute of Engineer-ing and Applied Sciences (PIEAS), Nilore, Islamabad, 440...