NewsDate: 9/15/2011 12:00 AM

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The Department of Pharmacy Services, Aga Khan University Hospital has won the Asian Hospital Management Awards 2011 in Singapore.​

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NewsDate: 9/12/2011 12:00 AM

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​Oral health means more than just good teeth; it is integral to general health and essential for a person’s overall well-being. Aga Khan University held a seminar on September 12, 2011, World Oral Health Day, to highlight the importance of healthy oral practices and dental treatments.

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NewsDate: 7/29/2011 12:00 AM

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The Aga Khan University Hospital has won an Environment Excellence Award 2011. This is the fourth consecutive win – 2008, 2009, 2010 and 2011 – for the Hospital and the fifth win overall. The first time the University Hospital participated in the Awards and won was 2006.

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NewsDate: 10/13/2011 12:00 AM

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​Blindness is not inevitable, it’s avoidable. For 80 per cent of people with cataracts, glaucoma, age-related macular degeneration and diabetes-related blindness, early diagnosis and treatment can help overcome or even avoid these visual impairments.

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NewsDate: 10/20/2011 3:00 PM

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​More than a third of all earthquakes between 1991 and 2005 around the world occurred in Central and South Asia. The quakes in Sarez, Tajikistan (1911); Gujarat, India (2001); Naryn, Kyrgyzstan (2002); and Azad Kashmir, Pakistan (2005) are the examples of the seismic hazards that exist in the region and their devastating consequences.

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NewsDate: 10/29/2011 4:00 PM

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​​In Pakistan, an estimated 400 people die of stroke every day and around the world more than four-fifths of deaths from this disease occur in in low and middle income countries. These were some of the alarming figures which came under discussion at a seminar held to mark World Stroke Day at Aga Khan University.

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NewsDate: 11/14/2011 3:00 AM

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​Adopting a healthy diet, exercising regularly and, maintaining normal body weight can prevent type 2 diabetes, the most common type of the disease that can develop at any age, said experts while speaking at a public health awareness programme held at the Aga Khan University to commemorate World Diabetes Day, November 14, 2011.

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NewsDate: 11/23/2011 3:00 PM

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​“Diagnosis and timely treatment can markedly improve the chances of survival of the majority of children born with congenital heart disease, so that they can live active lives as adults,” said Dr Babar Hasan, Consultant Paediatric Cardiologist, Aga Khan University Hospital (AKUH).

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NewsDate: 12/20/2011 3:00 PM

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​​“In order to provide continuously improving health care to their patients while staying informed about new advances in the medical field, it is imperative for doctors and nurses to take part in continuing medical education,” said Dr Wasim Jafri, Associate Dean of Continuing Medical Education at Aga Khan University while speaking to the organising committee of the annual forum on CME to be held on December 26 at Aga Khan University.

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​Healthy Lifestyle Reduces Cancer Risk

NewsDate: 2/3/2012 3:00 PM

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​Cancer is responsible for approximately 70 per cent of the deaths in low and middle-income countries such as Pakistan. “Together it is possible,” this year’s theme for World Cancer Day, highlights the importance of raising awareness and education about the disease as well as implementing early treatment programmes to reduce cancer rates and improve the chances of survival.

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NewsDate: 3/8/2012 12:00 AM

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​Survivors of childhood cancer will gather at Aga Khan University Hospital on March 9, to offer hope and encouragement to children still fighting the disease.

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​Experts at Aga Khan University stress the need for prevention and early management of cardiovascular diseases

NewsDate: 9/23/2012 12:00 AM

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​Over one third of all deaths in Pakistan are caused by cardiovascular diseases (CVD), while reduced blood supply to the heart, known as ischaemic heart disease has been identified as the leading cause of deaths in working-age adults (15 – 69 years).

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NewsDate: 9/25/2012 12:00 AM

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​A state-of-the-art stat laboratory has been launched by Aga Khan University Hospital (AKUH) in Rawalpindi, to better service the phlebotomy test needs of the twin cities of ‘Pindi and Islamabad as well as surrounding areas of northern Punjab.

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NewsDate: 10/12/2012 12:00 AM

NewsSummary: ​Mohammad Ahmed Baloch, a forty-day-old baby from Dera Allah Yar, Balochistan has become the first patient in Pakistan to survive on an artificial heart-lung machine for three days at Aga Khan University Hospital (AKUH).

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NewsDate: 7/28/2012 12:00 AM

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​Early detection and effective treatment are the keys to combatting viral hepatitis. Research conducted at Aga Khan University suggests that nearly 70 per cent of patients suffering from Hepatitis C - younger patients with hepatitis C genotype 3 infections – had the best chance of a cure provided they are diagnosed early and treated effectively.

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​Doctors at AKUH conduct first ever ICD placement in a child

NewsDate: 2/28/2012 12:00 AM

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​In a first of its kind procedure in Pakistan, doctors at Aga Khan University Hospital successfully placed a heart rhythm monitoring device – an implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD) – in a 14-year-old girl from Balochistan.

NewsDate: 1/19/2012 12:00 AM

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​Pakistan’s first fully automated biochemistry laboratory was inaugurated at Aga Khan University Hospital (AKUH), Karachi today by Mr Firoz Rasul, President of the University.

NewsDate: 10/18/2012 12:00 AM

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​Outbreaks of bird flu, dengue fever and now the ‘brain-eating’ Naegleria fowleri have all made people very concerned about their health.

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NewsDate: 10/20/2012 3:00 PM

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​The Foundation Ceremony of the new Women’s Wing at the French Medical Institute for Children (FMIC) today, marked the start of construction for a new obstetrics and gynaecology wing on the hospital premises that will provide high quality care for mothers and newborns in Afghanistan. The Hospital is managed and operated by the Aga Khan University (AKU), which is an agency of the Aga Khan Development Network.

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​In Pakistan, over 350,000 children under five die every year, and almost one in five of these deaths are due to pneumonia

NewsDate: 10/31/2012 12:00 AM

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​The results of the study, conducted by Aga Khan University in collaboration with the federal Expanded Programme on Immunisation (EPI).

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NewsDate: 11/6/2012 12:00 AM

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​Aga Khan University Hospital’s Radiology Department was awarded the first prize for presenting the best poster in the quality improvement projects category at the International Society for Quality in Health Care (ISQua) 29th International Conference in Geneva, Switzerland.

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