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Long Live Every One !! – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #1003 Dear Colleagues! This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #1003 for Pharma Veterans. Pharma Veterans Blogs are published by Asrar Qureshi on its dedicated site https://pharmaveterans.com. Please email to aq.pharmaveterans@gmail.com for publishing your contributions here. Credit: Artem Podrez Credit: Darina Belonogova Credit: Ron Lach Credit: Tamhasip Khan The quest for living longer has been around for a ‘long’ time, if not from the beginning. Fear of death or love of life are mixed up in this sentiment. Many years ago, there was a novel by the infamous Harold Robins, in which the lead character, a wealthy person, is pursuing to live long. He had hired a team of doctors who were trying to bring down his normal body temperature to 95 degrees Fahrenheit with the claim that it will make him live to 125 years.  Longevity Market Presently, emerging technologies are making it possible to aim for longevity. A market for longevity technolog...

Healthcare Landscape in Pakistan – Diagnostic Laboratories – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #985 Dear Colleagues! This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #985 for Pharma Veterans. Pharma Veterans Blogs are published by Asrar Qureshi on its dedicated site https://pharmaveterans.com. Please email to aq.pharmaveterans@gmail.com for publishing your contributions here. Credit: Unknown Credit: Pavel Danilyuk Credit: Thirdman Diagnostic labs have become an integral part of medical treatment. Unlike previous times, when few labs did manual testing and the only imaging available was x-ray, the diagnostic facilities have come a long way. Along with this development, the doctors’ dependence on lab tests has increased to the extent where almost 100 percent patients are prescribed multiple tests. While it has improved clinical outcomes, it has also added to the cost of medical treatment hugely.  In this blogpost, I shall explore the status of medical diagnostic labs in Pakistan. National Laboratory Policy...

Where is the Patient in Healthcare Landscape?  – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post 963 Dear Colleagues! This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post 963 for Pharma Veterans. Pharma Veterans Blogs are published by Asrar Qureshi on its dedicated site https://pharmaveterans.com. Please email to aq.pharmaveterans@gmail.com for publishing your contributions here. Credit: Azra Tuba Demir Credit: Jonathan Borba Credit: LLos Muertos Crew Credit: Max Mishin Preamble Health and education are important subjects for politics and therefore get new ideas whenever a new government comes in. It is however a pity that previous government initiatives are usually scraped by the new government. Some may be baptized with a new name and launched again. In the education sector, Danish school was the last major initiative in Punjab which, surprisingly, is still running well. Sehat Card was the last major initiative from the PTI government. Present incumbent government has raised questions about it and its fate is still hang...

State of Healthcare in Pakistan – Part 7 – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #790 Dear Colleagues!  This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #790 for Pharma Veterans. Pharma Veterans welcome sharing of knowledge and wisdom by Veterans for the benefit of Community at large. Pharma Veterans Blog is published by Asrar Qureshi on  WordPress, the top blog site. Please email to asrar@asrarqureshi.com for publishing your contributions here. Photo Credit: Edward Jenner Photo Credit: Ksenia Chernaya Photo Credit: MART Productions Healthcare stands on three pillars: Healthcare related policies; Public and private health infrastructure; and availability of diagnostic and treatment tools, the last one also includes easy access to drugs. We shall review each of these in some detail to understand the entire healthcare landscape. The information is gathered from several sources, and references are given at the bottom. Diagnostic and Treatment Infrastructure – Issues and Opportunities We take up the third (...