December 31, 2012: The Lancet and the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington co-hosted the launch of the Global Burden of Disease, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study 2010 on December 14, 2012. The meeting featured a series of panel discussions on the subject. The fourth...
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Published in The News International on December 29, 2012:
The brutal assassination of nine grass-roots level health workers in Pakistan, who were involved in a door-to-door immunisation campaign in an attempt to secure children from the crippling disease of polio, adds an unprecedentedly grave dimension to the ongoing carnage in Pakistan.
Pakistan’s...
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December 17, 2012: As Pakistani Drug Regulatory arrangements continue to face challenges, we publish our views on the issue and warn of a failure if systemic impediments are not appropriately addressed. Our viewpoint has simultaneously been published in the
Huffington Post on December 10, 2012 and in
The...
Published in The News International on December 05, 2012:
The bill creating a much-needed federal drug regulatory authority – Drug Regulatory Authority of Pakistan – was enacted into law recently. The World Trade Organisation (WTO) agreements have made it binding on all countries to have independent drug regulatory authorities, without which...
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