Ayyaz Kiani

Drug monitoring

Drug monitoring

Slowly but surely, an efficient reporting system is taking hold in Pakistan. Published 24 Feb, 2019 07:27am
‘Quack’ resources

‘Quack’ resources

Non-physician workers serve the public where few doctors would. Published 23 Nov, 2018 06:58am
Health-sector turnaround

Health-sector turnaround

The Drug Regulatory Authority of Pakistan has been dominated by persistent inadequacies and inefficiencies. Published 01 Oct, 2018 06:38am
The medical fiasco

The medical fiasco

The incidence of over-treating people from asthma to breast cancer, from high blood pressure to low bone density is on a dramatic rise. Published 21 Jan, 2013 10:52am
Medicine Harm: A rule rather than exception

Medicine Harm: A rule rather than exception

A look at the broader picture shows that medicine, as conventionally practiced, has failed to meet effectively many of the challenges of modern health care. Published 31 Dec, 2012 11:15am
The Polio Conundrum

The Polio Conundrum

Failure to eradicate polio from the last remaining strongholds could result in as many as 200,000 new cases every year, within 10 years, all over the world. Published 25 Dec, 2012 06:47am
The sins on US

The sins on US

Less than a month after Sandy, the United States is as defiant as ever in regards to accepting responsibility as the biggest polluter of the world. Published 03 Dec, 2012 11:55am

Access to medicines

Patients die from a lack of something as simple and inexpensive as a paracetamol to over use of expensive fourth generation antibiotics. Published 15 Oct, 2012 12:10pm

Healing the healer

Institutions that should be contributing towards transparency in the health sector in Pakistan are themselves victims of the deficiencies they seek to address. Published 03 Sep, 2012 12:53pm
The Medicine men and women

The Medicine men and women

Pharmacists are arguably the most important missing link in the provision of quality medicines and their safe usage today in Pakistan. Published 27 Aug, 2012 06:36am
Culture of poverty

Culture of poverty

It is a spectacular failure on part of so many people therein – voters, politicians and development experts and workers – that poverty exists and persists. Published 06 Aug, 2012 11:06am
Making TB a notifiable disease

Making TB a notifiable disease

Making TB a notifiable disease would make it mandatory for the government to ensure fair distribution of resources to treat all patients for free. Published 23 Jul, 2012 06:03pm
A patient-centered health care system

A patient-centered health care system

The major challenge in confronting health systems today is to tip the balance away from health services that are doctor-dominated. Published 16 Jul, 2012 06:42pm