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Associate Professor, Department of Surgery (Research)
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Breast Cancer
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High-dose chemotherapy for advanced breast cancer
Lancet Oncology (2006)
Khabir Ahmed
High-dose chemotherapy in women with advanced breast cancer is associated with better disease-free survival and overall survival compared with standard ...
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Emergency
(1)
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Bomb blast in a tertiary care hospital, the challenges faced ...
Trauma (2017)
Rizwan Sultan, Hasnain Zafar, Umar B and Khabir Ahmed
Abstract Introduction: A bomb blast in a hospital results in a many fold increase in the casualties. The affected health ...
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HIV
(13)
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Newsdesk-Foreign national with HIV face deportation from the UK
Lancet Infect Dis (2006)
Khabir Ahmed
Concern is growing over a decision by the UK Home Office that allows many HIV-infected individuals receiving antiretroviral treatment in ...
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China set to double annual spending on HIV/AIDS.
Lancet Infectious Diseases. (2006)
Khabir Ahmed
Abstract: China will spend more than 1.5 billion yuan (US$185 million) annually on prevention and control of HIV/AIDS in 2006-07, ...
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HIV drug companies must meet needs of children
Lancet Infectious Diseases (2006)
Khabir Ahmed
Charity Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has called on pharmaceutical companies to develop low-cost and user-friendly versions of antiretroviral drugs for ...
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Lawsuit against HIV/AIDS funding policy
Lancet Infectious Diseases (2005)
Khabir Ahmed
On Sept 23, the New York-based Open Society Institute (OSI) filed a lawsuit in a New York City district court ...
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Herbal treatment for HIV/AIDS not recommended
Lancet Infectious Diseases (2005)
Khabir Ahmed
Abstract: Evidence is lacking about the effectiveness of herbal medicines for the treatment of individuals with HIV/AIDS, a new review ...
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Brazil takes a step towards patent exemption for HIV drugs.
Lancet Infectious Diseases (2005)
Khabir Ahmed
Abstract: Patents have to be suspended if they are harming public health”, jubilantly declared Roberto Gouveia, a ruling party deputy, ...
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Ethics of AIDS drug trials on foster children questioned.
Lancet infectious diseases (2005)
Khabir Ahmed
The New York City Administration for Children's Services (ACS) has commissioned an independent research firm —the Vera Institute of Justice—to ...
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Harvard accused of delaying HIV treatment programme.
Lancet Infectious Diseases (2005)
Khabir Ahmed
Abstract: Harvard University, accused of a 5-month delay in providing antiretroviral drugs to several thousand Nigerians due to legal concerns, ...
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Experiments shed light on early events in HIV infection
Lancet Infect Dis (2005)
Khabir Ahmed
Abstract: Acute simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV) infection is associated with a high rate of infection and subsequent loss of memory ...
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New HIV/AIDS vaccine enters phase II trials
Lancet Infectious Diseases (2005)
Khabir Ahmed
The US National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) and pharmaceutical company Merck have begun enrolling around 1500 people ...
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Fury over release of AIDS prisoners
Lancet Infectious Diseases (2004)
Khabir Ahmed
Several non-governmental organisations involved in the management of HIV/AIDS in Zambia have criticised the Zambian government's practice of releasing prisoners ...
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Trial of antiretroviral for HIV prevention on hold
Lancet (2004)
Khabir Ahmed
Abstract: The Cambodian government has opposed plans by an international team of researchers to assess the role of an oral ...
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Bush's AIDS funding branded “scarce”
Lancet Infect Dis (2004)
Khabir Ahmed
Under US President George Bush's US$15 billion AIDS plan, the US Agency for International Development (USAID) has awarded $34·7 million ...
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Infectious Diseases
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Earthquake survivors face threat from infectious diseases
Lancet Infection disease (2005)
Khabir Ahmed
Infectious diseases threaten hundreds of thousands of survivors of the devastating earthquake that occurred on Oct 8, 2005 in Pakistan's ...
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Ophthalmology
(5)
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Frequency of color blindness in pre-employment screening in a tertiary ...
Pak J Med Sci. (2017)
Shaukat Ali Chhipa, Farzeen K. Hash, Shehreen Ali, Mustafa Kama, et al.
Abstract OBJECTIVE: To describe the frequency of color vision deficiency among Pakistani adults presenting for pre-employment health screening in a ...
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Bowled over by cricket: impact of tape-ball injuries on the ...
Asia Pac J Ophthalmol (Phila). (2017)
Salman Naveed Sadiq, Azam Ali, Bushra Usmani and Khabir Ahmed
Abstract PURPOSE: The aim of this study was to describe the type and severity of tape-ball cricket-related eye injuries seen ...
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Children's and their teachers' perceptions of what is good ...
BMC Ophthalmolog (2006)
Khabir Ahmed, Mohammad Aman Khan, Mohammad Daud Khan, Mohammad Babar Qureshi, et al.
BACKGROUND: Research exploring children's and their teachers' perceptions of eye health is lacking. This paper reports for the first time ...
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Glaucoma admissions and surgery in public sector tertiary care hospitals ...
Ophthalmic epidemiology (2005)
Muhammad Babar Qureshi, Muhammad Daud Khan, Mahnaz Naveed Shah and Khabir Ahmed
Purpose: To assess the annual number of glaucoma operations and admissions in the public sector tertiary care hospitals in Pakistan. ...
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Prevalence and causes of blindness and low vision in a ...
Ophthalmic Epidemiology (2005)
Khabir Ahmed, Khan, Mohammad Daud, Muhammad Babar Qureshi and Shahnawaz Munami
Purpose: To determine the prevalence and causes of blindness and visual impairment in people 40 years of age and older ...
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Public Health
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Newsdesk-SARS case was influenza H5N1
Lancet Infectious Diseases (2006)
Khabir Ahmed
China's Ministry of Health is doing tests to confirm a report that a patient who reportedly died of severe acute ...
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Global fund suspends grants to Burma
Lancet Infectious Diseases. (2006)
Khabir Ahmed
Abstract: Burma's Health Minister Kyaw Myint has sharply criticised a decision by the Global Fund To Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and ...
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Quake victims reach help too late to save crushed limbs
Bulletin of the World Health Organization (2005)
Khabir Ahmed
No fixed-dose combination pill of this kind has been widely marketed anywhere in the world to date, and the full ...
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Replenishment of global fund falls short.
Lancet (2005)
Khabir Ahmed
Abstract: At the Global Fund for AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria (GFATM) Replenishment Conference (London, UK, September 5–6), 29 international donors ...
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