would like to bring to your attention,
to a call for help to those in need,
and a golden opportunity to increase your good deeds.
May it maximises our rewards in the akhirah inshaAllah.

PAKISTAN FLOOD 2011

Last year, the massive flood in Pakistan has affected many lives; thousands were killed and many were left homeless.

The flood has now returned.

Although not to the same scale (Alhamdulillah), it is still very much significant to the lives of the Pakistani people.

High water from monsoon rains has killed more than 200 people since early August 2011, damaging or destroying some 670 000 homes and affecting more than 5 million people.

Let these pictures tell their stories:
Source: website

Other links:

Islamic Relief
Muslim Aid

IKRAM CARE AND RELIEF UK EIRE
is opening a donation drive to help ease the difficulties for our brothers and sisters in Pakistan.

Details are as follows:
UK:

Akaun: Ikram Care
Sortcode: 40-28-06
Acc no: 64254414
Bank: Hsbc
Reference: Pakistanflood

Ireland:

Please contact sis Nawwar Miptah ( beet_nawwar@yahoo.co.uk ) for more details.

Donation drive will be closed 10 days from today (3/10/2011).

For further enquiries please contact:
Ireland: Dr Nawwar Miptah (beet_nawwar@yahoo.co.uk)
UK: Dr Mai Shahira Meor Hazizi (sh4hir4@yahoo.com)

Before, during and after donating, remember to keep our intentions pure, solely to gain the redha of Allah Taala. May the reward be multiplied,, like how a grain of corn multiplies into full-fledged plant, with seven
ears containing a hundred grains..!

Surah Al-Baqarah, Ayah 261:
“The likeness of those who spend their wealth in the Way of Allah, is as the likeness of a grain (of corn); it grows seven ears, and each ear has a hundred grains. Allah gives manifold increase to whom He pleases. And Allah is All-Sufficient for His creatures’ needs, All-Knower.”

So take action now. Donate, or/and forward this email to your friends and members of your community so at least you will get the reward of spreading good words too inshaAllah.

Many thanks and jzkk.

Salam wbt

IKRAM CARE AND RELIEF
(Maktab Wanita dan Kekeluargaan UK EIRE)

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Infection with cytomegalovirus (CMV) causes few symptoms in most people. More than half of UK adults have been infected while children or teenagers. As with other herpes-type viruses, CMV will remain inactive in their bodies for life unless they develop a weakened immune system, for example following HIV infection.

If a woman becomes infected with CMV for the first time just before or during pregnancy, there is a possibility that she may pass the infection on to her unborn baby, a condition known as congenital CMV. About one in ten babies infected in this way have problems at birth including prematurity, lung, liver and spleen disorders and fits. Nine out of ten of babies with problems at birth and some of those who are born with congenital CMV but who have no symptoms at birth will experience problems that develop over their first few years of life. These include hearing loss, visual impairment, blindness, learning difficulties and epilepsy.

A CMV screening test for all babies at birth would allow those who are infected but symptomless to be identified and monitored so that appropriate intervention could be provided. A standard test for congenital CMV is rapid culture of a saliva specimen obtained at birth. However, culture cannot be automated so it is not suitable for screening large numbers. An alternative is to detect the DNA of the virus in saliva using a rapid polymerase chain reaction (PCR) that does not need extraction of the DNA. This method can be automated.

The New England Journal of Medicine of 2 June 2011 reported a multicentre screening study of CMV in newborns funded by the US National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders. The authors compared the rapid culture of saliva specimens obtained at birth both with real-time PCR assay of liquid saliva specimens and, for the first time, with PCR assay of saliva specimens dried on filter paper. The last method would allow specimens to be sent to a specialist automated screening laboratory for rapid testing as is done with the dried heel prick blood spots used in the current UK National Newborn Screening Programme.

The US study screened 17,662 newborns with both culture and the liquid saliva PCR assay. Of these 17,569 had negative and 85 positive results by both assays. It also screened 17,327 newborns by both culture and the dried saliva PCR assay. Of these 76 were positive by culture while 74 were positive by the dried saliva assay. Taking rapid culture as the ‘gold standard’, liquid saliva PCR correctly identified 100% of those with CMV and correctly excluded 99.9% of those without CMV. Dried saliva PCR correctly identified 97.4% of those with CMV and correctly excluded 99.9% of those without it. The authors concluded that both PCR assays should be considered potential screening tools for CMV in the newborn. (However, ideally several years follow-up of the nearly 35,000 babies negative by all three tests are needed to determine the true positive rate.)

The current policy of the UK National Screening Committee that screening for congenital CMV should not be offered has been under review since March 2011. It is estimated that the review will be completed by March 2012.

13 June 2011

source:

1. images: http://eyecaremanual.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/cytomegalovirus_diagram.jpg

2. images: http://drlindagalloway.files.wordpress.com/2011/01/gd8281360new-born-babies-are-s-5816.jpg

3. http://www.labtestsonline.org.uk/news/cmv110613.html

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Mission

This notebook is intended to aid primary care providers in their pursuit of optimal care, well-informed patients, and healthy families.

Content

This site is derived from a peripheral brain collection of medical notes and is divided over 4316 topics within 616 chapters and 31 subspecialty books. Information is gleaned from reputable sources, referenced where possible, taken from lectures and workshops, peer reviewed articles and bulletins, and key texts.

New approaches to medical problems are referenced with supporting studies, and further reading is often suggested on general medical issues. Images, sounds, worksheets, patient education materials, and links to other sites are interwoven with the text, at no extra charge. Peer review of this site would be a very welcome addition, but as of yet I rely on email feedback to correct errors and misinformation.

Funding

This site is personally funded by the site author, Scott Moses. Additional funding is obtained via advertising support; all paid advertisements are clearly delineated as such. Our advertising related privacy policy may be reviewed at here

Please let us know if you find any advertising to be distasteful or inappropriate, or which you find dilutes the value or integrity of this web site. Absolutely no content on the site is influenced or authored by advertisers. Content is solely per the discretion of the site author.

Disclaimer

I have tried with great fervor to limit errors, misinformation, and copyright infringement in the text. This is, however, no guarantee that the notebook is without fault.

Please exercise your own clinical judgment when implementing any management strategies found here. I would greatly appreciate feedback regarding any problems you discover while perusing these pages. Please use this site only after reading and agreeing to the terms and conditions (including the privacy statement).

Creation

These medical notes began as a few scattered pearls of text stored with the Notetaker application of the HP Palmtop 200LX. Over the last 5 years, notes from conferences, articles, textbooks and colleagues have grown into over 4.8 Megabytes of text (150 MB of HTML and images) spread over 31 individual medical specialty files.

Initially the html code for this site was generated from the HP Notetaker files using Visual Basic for Applications inside Microsoft Word. However, as the collection of text grew, so did the complexity of its organization, and a program known as Brains was developed as a stand alone application.�

Brains is able to import raw text from each separate subspecialty Notetaker file, process its text, titles and synonyms, as well as images and links, and store it as a Microsoft access database.� Brains then uses a collection of the database files to publish the html text, generating a customized table of contents for each page, and inserting cross links to related text as it processes the data.

In its third iteration, Brains can ouput the site in 1-2 hours. This latest version also allows topics to be linked to the UMLS metathesaurus codes, and to integrate EMR documentation tools.

About the Author

The author of the Family Practice Notebook, is Scott Moses, MD, a board-certified Family Physician practicing in Lino Lakes, Minnesota.

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The work of the clinical laboratory professional – who analyzes many things in the body including chemical indicators, the health of blood cells, and the presence of microbes and genetic markers – has long been an unseen aspect of health care. Yet, clinical lab tests often provide the link between the patient’s presentation of symptoms and the doctor’s diagnosis of and prescribed treatment for a particular condition or disease. Through preventive screening, lab tests also aid in the early detection of potentially fatal conditions and, in so doing, lead to early treatment. In short, lab tests can help both to save lives and to improve the quality of life.

Lab Tests Online has been designed to help you, as a patient or family caregiver, to better understand the many clinical lab tests that are part of routine care as well as diagnosis and treatment of a broad range of conditions and diseases. If you are a medical professional, this site can serve as a quick reference tool or as a resource for keeping up with advances in laboratory science. Our Features page describes what you can find on the site and how it can benefit you.  If you’d like to see what people are saying about the site, visit our special kudos section for user comments and news about the site.

The site is produced by AACC and is the result of a collaboration of professional societiesrepresenting the laboratory community. When we launched this site in 2001, it was a time when health care consumers were being asked to assume more responsibility for their care. Today, knowing more about lab tests and the issues surrounding testing is an important part of fulfilling this responsibility.

Since its launch, Lab Tests Online has helped millions of users learn about their tests and discuss them more clearly with their doctors. To ensure that the site is accepted as a trusted source for medical information, we adhere to the principles espoused by the Health on the Net Foundation, an international not-for-profit organization that seeks “to guide lay persons or non-medical users and medical practitioners to useful and reliable online medical and health information.” We also support the Consumer Reports WebWatch guidelines to promote credible information practices on the web.

This site would not be possible without the many volunteer hours provided by members of our Editorial Review Board, nor the financial support of our sponsors. We would also like to acknowledge the contributions of numerous members of the laboratory community who wrote, edited, or reviewed the material found on the site as well as the many online and offline resources used by our writers in their research. You can typically find these resources listed at the end of each article under “Sources.”