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News 2008

May 7 Aga Khan University School of Nursing held its 27th Lamp Lighting Ceremony to commemorate the 188th birthday of Florence Nightingale Aga Khan University School of Nursing held its 27th Lamp Lighting Ceremony to commemorate the 188th birthday of Florence Nightingale... [Read on]

April 19 Occupational Health, Safety and Environment (OHSE) Award for Aga Khan University Hospital, Karachi High OHSE standards at AKU earned a ‘Best Practices in Health, Safety and Environment’ award from the Employers’ Federation of Pakistan … [Read on]

April 19 Call for Full Support to Infection Control Teams in Hospitals Every year, many lives are lost because of the spread of infections in hospitals. Major hospitals worldwide find it particularly difficult to manage infection control, as they admit acutely ill patients who may carry highly resistant infections ...” [Read on]

April 18
Smokers Twice as Likely to Develop Kidney Cancer

April 10
Parkinson’s Disease can be Managed

April 8-10
Holistic Framework for Educational Reform Needed

March 31
Two Per Cent of TB Patients are at Risk for Spinal TB

March 20
Worldwide, Bad Blood Transfusions Cause an Annual 8-16 Million Hepatitis B Virus Infections

March 16
‘Celebrating AKU’s 25 Years’ – A Message by Mr Firoz Rasul, President AKU [Urdu]

March 14
Head and Neck Cancer Patients: 83 per cent are Tobacco Users

March 7
‘Heart-Defect' Babies - Better Chances of Survival and Near-Normal Life

March 6
World Kidney Day at AKU: One Out of Three Pakistanis Have Kidney Disease

February 7
Cancer affects anyone: Treatment is huge burden on patients, families and societies

February 4
World-renowned scholar, Ms Karen Armstrong, speaks on ‘Lessons from Islamic History in Facing Contemporary Challenges'

January 30
40 per cent men and 8 per cent women in Pakistan are regular

January 25
66 per cent of Gall Stone Patients Show No Symptoms

January 21
Pakistani Doctors Help Produce Checklist to Save Newborn Lives

January 17
Maternal and child nutrition interventions could prevent a quarter of child deaths in poor communities

January 17
Over a third of child deaths and 11 per cent of global disease burden due to maternal and child undernutrition

January 14
Violence on the Rise in Pakistani Society

January 7
1.4 Million Suffering from Hospital Infections Worldwide Infection Risk 20 Times Higher in Developing Countries

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