Seats detail

Category	MBBS KMC	MBBS AMC	MBBS SMC	MBBS GMC	MBBS KGMC	BDS KCD	BDS ADS	MBBS BMC	Total
Provisional.
Open merit Seats	183	120	39	40	35	41	18	100	576
General Self finance	23	20	20	19	9	18	18	20	147
Reciprocal for N.M.C	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
Minorities	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
Disabled Candidates	2	2	0	0	0	1	0	0	5
NWFP Backward Area	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Kohistan	2	2	0	0	0	0	1	0	5
Chitral	2	2	0	0	0	1	1	0	6
Dir Upper	1	1	0	1	1	0	0	0	4
Dir Lower	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	2
Gadoon	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	2
Amazai	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
Gadoon/ Amazi	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	1
Tribal area adjoining Mansehra including Kala Dhaka & Upper Tanawal	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	2
Kala Dhaka	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
Battagram	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	2
Balakot	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
Allai	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
Shangla	0	1	1	0	0	1	0	0	3
Buner	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	2
Kalam	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	1
Hangu	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2
Tank	0	0	0	2	0	0	1	0	3
Federal Seats	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
FATA	35	28	10	10	5	5	5	25	123
Special FATA	4	4	5	5	3	2	1	5	29
AJK	1	22	5	5	0	0	1	0	34
Northern Areas	1	6	0	0	0	0	0	0	7
Foreign Self finance	9	8	3	2	13	5	3	2	45
Technical Assistance Program	3	2	0	0	0	1	0	0	6
Overseas Pakistani of NWFP	1	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	3
Afghan National Seats	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	4
Bangladesh	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	8
Total	278	231	86	85	67	77	51	153	1028

 

SEATS IN FATIMA JINNAH MEDICAL COLLEGE, LAHORE ON PROVISIONAL BASIS*	7
The distribution of these seats will be as under:
a) Open merit	5
b) Seats for Backward Areas declared by the NWFP Govt	2

 

• *These seats are subjects to any changes made by the Government of Punjab.

FATA RESERVED SEATS IN MEDICAL & DENTAL COLLEGES NWFP

 

S.No	Name of college	MBBS	BDS	Total
1	Bolan Medical College	7	0	7
2	Fatima Jinnah Medical Lahore	8	0	8
3	Chandka Medical College, Larkana	2	0	2
4	Liaquat University of Medical & Health Sciences Jamshoro	0	2	2
5	Punjab Medical College Fiasalabad	1	0	1
6	Rawalpindi Medical College,	1	0	1
7	Allama Iqbal Medical College Lahore	1	0	1
8	Nishter Medical College Multan	1	1	2
9	Quaid-e-azam Medical College, Bahawalpur	1	0	1
10	King Edward Medical College Lahore	1	0	1
11	De’Montmorency Dental College Lahore	0	1	1
	Total	23	4	27

Source: Prospectus 2008-09

DateSheet For 1st Prof Examination

 

Date	paper	Class
10/11/08	Anatomy	1st Year
11/11/08	Anatomy	2nd Year
13/11/08	Physiology	1st Year
14/11/08	Physiology	2nd Year
17/11/08	Biochemistry	1st Year
18/11/08	Biochemistry	2nd Year
21/11/08	Islamyiat and Pak Study	2nd Year

3rd year classes

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Internet search process affects cognition, emotion

Nearly 73 percent of all American adults use the Internet on a daily basis, according to a 2009 Pew Internet and American Life Project survey. Half of these adults use the Web to find information via search engines, while 38 percent use it to pass the time. In a recent study, University of Missouri researchers found that readers were better able to understand, remember and emotionally respond to material found through “searching” compared to content found while “surfing.” “If, as these data suggest, the cognitive and emotional impact of online content is greatest when acquired by searching, then Web site sponsors might consider increasing their advertising on pages that tend to be accessed via search engines,” said Kevin Wise, assistant professor of strategic communication and co-director of the Psychological Research on Information and Media Effects (PRIME) Lab at the University of Missouri.

In the study, the researchers examined how methods for acquiring news — searching for specific content versus surfing a news Web site — affected readers’ emotional responses while reading news stories. They monitored participants’ heart rate, skin conductance and facial musculature to gauge their emotional responses to unpleasant news. The researchers found that unpleasant content triggered greater emotional responses when readers sought the information by searching rather than surfing. In future studies, Wise will study the effects of acquiring pleasant content on readers’ emotional responses.

“How readers acquire messages online has ramifications for their cognitive and emotional response to those messages,” Wise said. “Messages that meet readers’ existing informational needs elicit stronger emotional reactions.”

The researchers also found that information was better understood and remembered when individuals conducted specific searches for information. In a previous study, Wise tested the effects of searching and surfing on readers’ responses to images and found similar results.

Source: University of Missouri-Columbia

1930s drug slows tumor growth

Drugs sometimes have beneficial side effects. A glaucoma treatment causes luscious eyelashes. A blood pressure drug also aids those with a rare genetic disease. The newest surprise discovered by researchers at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine is a gonorrhea medication that might help battle cancer. “Often times we are surprised that a drug known to do something else has another hidden property,” says Jun Liu, Ph.D., a professor of pharmacology and molecular sciences at Johns Hopkins and author on the study published Oct. 1 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In this case, the surprise is a big one. The drug, acriflavine, used in the 1930s for treating gonorrhea, has turned out to have the previously unknown ability to halt the growth of new blood vessels. Preliminary tests showed that mice engineered to develop cancer had no tumor growth if treated with daily injections of acriflavine.

“As cancer cells rapidly divide, they consume considerable amounts of oxygen,” says Gregg Semenza, M.D., Ph.D., the C. Michael Armstrong Professor of Pediatrics and director of the vascular program at the Johns Hopkins Institute for Cell Engineering. “To continue growing, a tumor must create new blood vessels to deliver oxygen to the tumor cells.”

Acriflavine stops blood vessel growth by inhibiting the function of the protein hypoxia-inducible factor (HIF)-1, which was discovered by Semenza’s team in 1992. When HIF-1 senses that the surrounding environment is low in oxygen, it turns on genes necessary for building new vessels. Though essential for normal tissue growth and wound healing, HIF-1 is also turned on by cancers to obtain the oxygen they need to survive. Most importantly, in order for HIF-1 to work, two subunits must bind together like puzzle pieces.

Most drugs are unable to prevent protein binding because the drug molecules can be much smaller than the proteins they interact with. A medicine must hit just the right spot, a critical domain or pocket on the surface of one protein to stop it from binding to another protein. Even though drugs that stop binding are uncommon, they are such an effective means to stop protein function that Semenza decided to look for one that might block HIF-1. To do that, he turned to the Johns Hopkins Drug Library, a collection of FDA- and internationally approved compounds in that was assembled by Liu.

To visualize protein binding, scientists engineered a cell line so that when the HIF-1 subunits came together, they would cause the cell to light up like a firefly. They then tested each of the more than 3,000 drugs in the drug library in hopes of finding one that would turn out the light. Acriflavine did, andfurther studies confirmed that it was binding directly to HIF-1.

“Mechanistically, this is the first drug of its kind,” says Liu. “It is acting in a way that is never seen for this family of proteins.”

Liu hopes that acriflavine can one day be incorporated into chemotherapy cocktails, one drug among many that help fight cancer.

Hopkins is seeking even more new uses for old drugs. So far, drugs in the library have been screened for use against malaria, tuberculosis, HIV and the Ebola virus. In the future, Liu expects even more researchers to take advantage of the library, which is continuing to grow as more drugs are added to the collection.

“In the public domain, Hopkins has the largest drug library,” says Liu. “The more drugs you have, the more possibilities, the higher the chance you rediscover something that will help.”

Source: Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions

Revised Admission Schedule for Session 2009-10

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Muscle: ‘Hard to build, easy to lose’ as you age

Published: Friday, September 11, 2009 – 09:57 in Health & Medicine

Have you ever noticed that people have thinner arms and legs as they get older? As we age it becomes harder to keep our muscles healthy. They get smaller, which decreases strength and increases the likelihood of falls and fractures. New research is showing how this happens — and what to do about it. A team of Nottingham researchers has already shown that when older people eat, they cannot make muscle as fast as the young. Now they’ve found that the suppression of muscle breakdown, which also happens during feeding, is blunted with age.

The scientists and doctors at The University of Nottingham Schools of Graduate Entry Medicine and Biomedical Sciences believe that a ‘double whammy’ affects people aged over 65. However the team think that weight training may “rejuvenate” muscle blood flow and help retain muscle for older people.

These results may explain the ongoing loss of muscle in older people: when they eat they don’t build enough muscle with the protein in food; also, the insulin (a hormone released during a meal) fails to shut down the muscle breakdown that rises between meals and overnight. Normally, in young people, insulin acts to slow muscle breakdown. Common to these problems may be a failure to deliver nutrients and hormones to muscle because of a poorer blood supply.

The work has been done by Michael Rennie, Professor of Clinical Physiology, and Dr Emilie Wilkes, and their colleagues at The University of Nottingham. The research was funded by the UK’s Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) as part of ongoing work on age-related muscle wasting and how to lessen that effect.

Research just published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition compared one group of people in their late 60s to a group of 25-year-olds, with equal numbers of men and women. Professor Rennie said “We studied our subjects first — before breakfast — and then after giving them a small amount of insulin to raise the hormone to what they would be if they had eaten breakfast, of a bowl of cornflakes or a croissant.”

“We tagged one of the amino acids (from which proteins are made) so that we could discover how much protein in leg muscle was being broken down. We then compared how much amino acid was delivered to the leg and how much was leaving it, by analysing blood in the two situations.

“The results were clear. The younger people’s muscles were able to use insulin we gave to stop the muscle breakdown, which had increased during the night. The muscles in the older people could not.”

“In the course of our tests, we also noticed that the blood flow in the leg was greater in the younger people than the older ones,” added Professor Rennie. “This set us thinking: maybe the rate of supply of nutrients and hormones is lower in the older people? This could explain the wasting we see.”

Following this up led Beth Phillips, a PhD student working with Professor Rennie, to win the Blue Riband Award for work she presented at the summer meeting of The Physiological Society in Dublin. In her research Beth confirmed the blunting effect of age on leg blood flow after feeding, with and without exercise. The team predicted that weight training would reduce this blunting. “Indeed, she found that three sessions a week over 20 weeks ‘rejuvenated’ the leg blood flow responses of the older people. They became identical to those in the young,” said Professor Rennie.

“I am extremely pleased with progress,” he said. “Our team is making good headway in finding more and more out about what causes the loss of muscle with age. It looks like we have good clues about how to lessen it with weight training and possibly other ways to increase blood flow.”

Source: University of Nottingham

Prospectus 2009-10

Prospectus will be Available after its approval from the NWFP Govt. Health Dept. Prospectus and Schedule for Admissions will be announced soon in the Newspapers and on the Site too.

For admission info check KMC website

Entry Test 2009 Analysis

S. No.	Pass Candidates in Hundreds	No. of Candidates
1	Greater Than 600	34
2	From 500 to 599	495
3	From 400 to 499	1534
4	From 320 to 399	1953
5	Pass	4016
6	Failed	7189
7	Appeared	11205
8	Absent	113
	Total Registered	11318
	Pass Percentage	35.84

 

The NWFP Entrance Test for Medical and Dental Colleges has been conducted smoothly on August 16, 2009. It started late on August 16, 2009, at 11:00 AM due to wind storm at Peshawar where check-in could not start till 9:00 AM due to tents falling down. In Abbottabad, there was light rain in the morning and check-in started at 6:45 AM. There was some traffic jam in the College and on KKH due to no show from Traffic Police and initially it was controlled by the security staff of Ayub Medical College. The test ended at 2:00 PM and the candidates dispersed smoothly.

The ET 2099 was held on August 16, 2009 simultaneously at Ayub Medical College, BISE Abbottabad and Sher Khan Stadium Peshawar. In spite of early morning rain at Abbottabad and wind storm at Peshawar, the test was smoothly conducted after a delay of 2 hours. The test has started at 11:00 AM to continue till 2:00 PM.

Entry Test 2009-10 Schedule

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Pharmacology: Oral Meds Absorption

Histopathology Aorta–Atherosclerosis with fatty streak

Qira’at & Naat Competition

 

All Distict Qira’at & Naat Competition

All Distict Qira’at & Naat Competition was held in

Auditorium of BMC on 14^th March 2009.

 

Winners Detail:

Qira’at:

Tracks Institute Bannu

 

Naat:

Bannu Medical College

 

Best Institute of Competition:

                               Govt High School No 2

 

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All District Qirra’at & Naat Competition

Students Activities Forum (SAF) is going to arrange “All District Qirra’at & Naat Competition” on Saturday, 14^th of March 2009.

This will be the first co-curricular activity of year 2009.

In competition different institutions of Bannu like UTSB, UET Bannu, Post-Graduate College Bannu, Frontier College ect will participate.

Venue & Timing: Auditorium of BMC at 9:00AM

 

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