Too Much Texting Linked To Neck And Shoulder Pain

Preliminary research on college students in the US suggests that too much texting can lead to neck and shoulder pain, similar to that found in older adults who develop injuries from prolonged and repeated use of computers. Judith Gold, an ergonomics researcher at Temple University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, presented the preliminary findings of her study [...]

Develop healthy habits to manage your diabetes

World Diabetes Day is observed every year on 14 November to raise awareness of diabetes. This year’s theme focuses on diabetes education and prevention. Type 2 diabetes is at least five times more common in South Asians than in the wider population. While there is currently no cure for it, people with diabetes can still [...]

Detail Article: What Is Double Vision? What Is Diplopia? What Causes Double Vision?

Written by Christian Nordqvist
Double vision, also known as Diplopia, is the simultaneous perception of two images of a single object – the patient sees two images of a single thing either all the time, or some of the time. The displacement may be horizontally, vertically or diagonally. Diagonal double displacement (double vision) means both the [...]

Aga Khan University: World Diabetes Day – Prevention of diabetes and its complications

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Mombasa group offers support to families of children with medical needs

Zainab was easily fatigued and breathless, even when resting. This would have been worrying in an older person, but concern over Zainab’s condition was particularly acute — she was only 2 years old. After numerous doctor’s visits and tests that took Zainab and her father far from home, they were told that she had a [...]

Breast cancer screening projection surpassed

THE National Health Insurance Fund (NHIF) and the Aga Khan Hospital have surpassed their free breast cancer and awareness campaign to women projection in Dar es Salaam City by 100 per cent.
Chief of Information and Communication of NHIF Rehani Athumani and the hospital’s Medical Treatment Director, Dr Jaffer Dharsee, said that they have already screened [...]

Green Tea Shows Promise As Reducer Of Oral Cancer Risk In Trial

Written by: Catharine Paddock, PhD
A new study led by US researchers suggests that green tea extract may be a promsing agent for preventing oral cancer in patients with a pre-malignant condition known as oral leukoplakia.
The study was the work of senior author Dr Vassiliki Papadimitrakopoulou, professor of Thoracic/Head and Neck Medical Oncology at The University [...]

Article: What Is Graves’ Disease? What Causes Graves’ Disease?

Written by Christian Nordqvist
Graves’ disease is an autoimmune disease in which the patient’s own immune system attacks the thyroid gland, causing it to produce too much thyroxine. Thyroxine (T4) is a hormone produced by the thyroid gland that has four iodine molecules attached to its molecular structure. T4, as well as other thyroid hormones help [...]

Aga Khan Hospital, NHIF conduct free breast cancer screening

NATIONAL Health Insurance Fund in collaboration with the Aga Khan Hospital today conducted a free breast cancer screening and awareness campaign in Dar es Salaam, amid reports that the spread of the disease had now reached an alarming stage. Various studies have revealed a persistent high prevalence of breast cancer among Tanzania women, especially those breast [...]

Health: High blood pressure leading cause

Researchers at the Aga Khan University on Thursday said that high blood pressure (HBP) is the leading cause of death in high and low income countries. Quoting a research conducted from 1990 to 1994 by the National Health Survey of Pakistan, one in every three people over the age of 45 suffers from high blood [...]

One in three suffer from high blood pressure in Pakistan

Community interventions can reduce blood pressure epidemic
Karachi, Pakistan
Training physicians and providing health care education to people in their homes through community health workers are strategies that can help in the management of the high blood pressure epidemic in the country suggests research by doctors at Aga Khan University (AKU). The AKU study – the first [...]

Combined home/GP hypertension control program successful in Pakistan

A simple strategy of training general practitioners about hypertension control once a year, combined with teaching lay healthcare workers to educate people in their homes, led to significant reductions in blood pressure among those with hypertension, in a study performed in Pakistan. The proportion of adults with controlled BP was increased by nearly twofold among [...]

Detail Article: What Is Watering Eye (epiphora)? What Causes Watering Eye (epiphora)?

Watering eye, also known as epiphora or tearing, is a condition in which there is an overflow of tears onto the face, often without a clear explanation. There is insufficient tear film drainage from the eye(s) – instead of all the tears draining through the nasolacrimal system, they overflow onto the face.
Epiphora can develop at [...]

AKU: First-ever World Pneumonia Day observed

‘Pneumonia kills more children than measles, malaria and AIDS combined’
KARACHI: Health experts of the Aga Khan University (AKU) have said that pneumonia is one of the most lethal diseases in the world and it kills more children, under five years of age, as compared to other fatal diseases like measles, malaria and AIDS, even if [...]

Aga Khan University: World Diabetes Day

November 14, 2009
Aga Khan University Hospital, Karachi is commemorating World Diabetes Day on November 14, 2009 to discuss the prevention, complications, best diet and treatment for diabetes.
Time and Venue
2:00 - 5:00 pm
AKU Auditorium, Karachi, Pakistan
 

Topics

Speakers

Prevention of diabetes and its complications
Dr Najmul Islam, Consultant Endocrinologist and Diabetologist

What is the best diet for diabetics?
Ms Faiza Shoaib, [...]

Preventive steps for H1N1 Flu Virus

Influenza, commonly referred to as the flu, is an infectious disease that is transmitted through the air by coughs and sneeze. Every year, influenza spreads around the world in seasonal epidemics, resulting in numerous deaths. 
The 2009 flu pandemic is a global outbreak of a new strain of influenza A virus subtype H1N1 — officially referred [...]

Hip and knee joint replacements can last longer

 
Improvement in materials and recent advances in surgical techniques means that most active patients requiring hip and knee implants will be able to use their joint replacements for as long as 15 to 20 years, according to doctors at Aga Khan University Hospital (AKUH) speaking on the occasion of Bone and Joint Day to raise [...]

Worm glue could help repair broken bones

A sea creature called the sandcastle worm could hold the secret to repairing broken bones in humans. The screws and pins favored by many surgeons today have achieved much success over the years, but they are not suitable for repairing all kinds of fractures. For more precise reconstruction of compound fractures and shattered bones, bioengineers [...]

FOCUS & The Aga Khan Health Boards take preventive steps against H1N1 Virus

Influenza, commonly referred to as the flu, is an infectious disease that is transmitted through the air by coughs and sneezes. Every year, influenza spreads around the world in seasonal epidemics, resulting in numerous deaths.
The 2009 flu pandemic is a global outbreak of a new strain of influenza A virus subtype H1N1 — officially referred [...]

An electron microscope that won’t destroy living cells

We’ve all seen those scary images of monstrous looking insects captured by high-resolution electron microscopes, like the house dust mite in the image above. One thing you may not be aware of though, is that all the creepy crawlies in such images are dead. That’s because the particle beam of electrons used to illuminate a [...]

World Mental Health Day marked today

DUSHANBE, October 10, 2009, Asia-Plus  — World Mental Health Day, which is marked on October 10, is a day for global mental health education, awareness and advocacy.
It was first celebrated in 1992 at the initiative of the World Federation for Mental Health, a global mental health organization with members and contacts in more than 150 [...]

Curry Powder Ingredient May Block Nicotine Activated Cancer Cells In Head And Neck Cancers

Researchers found that curcumin, a compound found in turmeric, the Indian spice that gives curry its orange-yellow colour, may block nicotine from activating cancer causing cells in patients with head and neck cancer who continue to smoke or use nicotine products to help them quit. The researchers hope the findings will help to discover additional [...]

Heart attacks kill over 17m people every year

KARACHI – The World Heart Day was commemorated on Sunday with a view to encourage people around the globe to adopt a heart-healthy lifestyle to reduce the risk of heart attacks which, together with strokes, kill over 17 million people every year. To mark the occasion the Aga Khan University Hospital (AKUH) arranged lectures by [...]

Aga Khan University: Preventive measures for heart disease

World Heart Day is commemorated on September 27 every year to encourage people around the globe to adopt a heart-healthy lifestyle to reduce the risk of heart attacks which, together with strokes, kill over 17 million people every year. This year, to raise awareness, Aga Khan University Hospital arranged lectures by AKUH health professionals.
Speaking on [...]

What Is Kawasaki Disease? What Causes Kawasaki Disease?

Kawasaki disease is a rare syndrome of unknown origin that causes high fever, reddening of the eyes (conjunctivitis), lips and mucous membrane of the mouth, gingivitis (ulcerative gum disease), swollen neck glands and a bright red rash over the skin of the hands and feet, in young children.
Kawasaki disease causes inflammation in the walls of [...]

World Heart Day

Aga Khan University Hospital, Karachi invites you to a health awareness seminar on World Heat Day on Sunday, September 27, 2009.
Time and Venue
4:00 – 6:30 pm
AKU Auditorium, Karachi, Pakistan 

Topics

Speakers

Harmful Effects of Smoking
Professor Dr Javaid Khan
Consultant Pulmonologist

Balanced Diet for Heart Health  
Dr Romaina Iqbal
Consultant Nutrionist

Importance of Hypertension and Cholesterol [...]

Uganda Makes Blood Pressure Drugs

Kampala, Sep 17, 2009 (New Vision/All Africa Global Media via COMTEX) UGANDA has started manufacturing Amlodipine, the drug which reduces high blood pressure to normal. The drug is being manufactured under the brand name, Cardipac, by Kampala Pharmaceutical Industries (KPI), a drug manufacturing company which is part of the Aga Khan Development Network.
Launching the drug [...]

What Is Meniere’s Disease? What Causes Meniere’s Disease?

Meniere’s disease (Ménière’s disease) is a condition with vertigo, tinnitus (ringing, buzzing, noises in the ears) and progressive deafness. Meniere’s disease is caused by a dysfunction of the endolymphatic sac (semi-circular canals) in the inner ear – also known as the labyrinth. The labyrinth is a system of small fluid-filled channels that send signals of [...]

AKU: Global Year against Cancer Pain

Ninth Annual Pain Symposium and Workshop
Global Year against Cancer Pain
Aga Khan University’s Department of Continuing Professional Education in collaboration with Department of Anaesthesia invites you to the Ninth Annual Pain Symposium and Workshop: Global Year against Cancer Pain on Friday, October 2-3, 2009.
Programme

Symposium
October 2, 2009
AKU Auditorium, Karachi
9:00 am – 5:00 pm

 

Post-Symposium [...]

Diabetes Advance: Researchers Find Gene That Causes Resistance To Insulin

A breakthrough by an international team of researchers in Canada, France, the UK and Denmark has uncovered a new gene that could lead to better treatment of type 2 diabetes, as well as a better understanding of how this widespread disease develops.
Unlike most of the genes that have been shown to cause diabetes, the new [...]