Stories by Ayyaz Kiani
Slowly but surely, an efficient reporting system is taking hold in Pakistan.
Published 24 Feb, 2019 07:27am
Non-physician workers serve the public where few doctors would.
Published 23 Nov, 2018 06:58am
The Drug Regulatory Authority of Pakistan has been dominated by persistent inadequacies and inefficiencies.
Published 01 Oct, 2018 06:38am
The incidence of over-treating people from asthma to breast cancer, from high blood pressure to low bone density is on a dramatic rise.
Published 21 Jan, 2013 10:52am
A look at the broader picture shows that medicine, as conventionally practiced, has failed to meet effectively many of the challenges of modern health care.
Published 31 Dec, 2012 11:15am
Failure to eradicate polio from the last remaining strongholds could result in as many as 200,000 new cases every year, within 10 years, all over the world.
Published 25 Dec, 2012 06:47am
Less than a month after Sandy, the United States is as defiant as ever in regards to accepting responsibility as the biggest polluter of the world.
Published 03 Dec, 2012 11:55am
Patients die from a lack of something as simple and inexpensive as a paracetamol to over use of expensive fourth generation antibiotics.
Published 15 Oct, 2012 12:10pm
There is an urgent need to bring academia and well trained pharmacy professionals at the state level of public health in Pakistan.
Published 08 Oct, 2012 04:20am
In the past 60 years, more than 70 per cent of all newly emerging infectious diseases in humans have originated from animals.
Published 24 Sep, 2012 02:10pm
Pasteurisation of dairy products indeed is the single most effective means to prevent the spread of tuberculosis in human beings.
Published 17 Sep, 2012 09:40am
Withdrawn ‘wonder drug’ Thalidomide linked to birth defects has resurfaced after almost 50 years for the treatment of leprosy.
Published 10 Sep, 2012 10:06am
Institutions that should be contributing towards transparency in the health sector in Pakistan are themselves victims of the deficiencies they seek to address.
Published 03 Sep, 2012 12:53pm
Pharmacists are arguably the most important missing link in the provision of quality medicines and their safe usage today in Pakistan.
Published 27 Aug, 2012 06:36am
The exploitation of the grey area between legal and illegal drugs allows the flow of huge sums of money to reach illicit traders and manufacturers.
Published 13 Aug, 2012 08:01am
It is a spectacular failure on part of so many people therein – voters, politicians and development experts and workers – that poverty exists and persists.
Published 06 Aug, 2012 11:06am
Of all the functions related to drug regulation, the most important factor for its success in Pakistan is who is charged to lead it.
Published 30 Jul, 2012 09:12am
Making TB a notifiable disease would make it mandatory for the government to ensure fair distribution of resources to treat all patients for free.
Published 23 Jul, 2012 06:03pm
The major challenge in confronting health systems today is to tip the balance away from health services that are doctor-dominated.
Published 16 Jul, 2012 06:42pm
Is their fate going to be any different than ours in a related initiative back in 1972?
Published 09 Jul, 2012 04:02pm
