Dear Colleagues,
Assalamon-Alaikum, ( May ALLAH Keep You Safe )

Department of Plastic Surgery,Services Institute of Medical Sciences/Servcices Hospital,Lahore , Department of Microbiology, University of Health Sciences,Lahore, School of biological Sciences and Honey Bees Research Institute, Punjab University,Lahore invite You to the second international conference on “ Medicinal Uses of Honey” from Nov.10-12,2008.
The idea behind the conference is to share and exchange Knowledge, Research and experience and to promote use of Honey in a wide spectrum of diseases. Following topics will be discussed by internationally renowned speakers.

Honey, The Natural Healer and The best medicine
Past, Present and Future of Honey in modern medical Science
Can Honey reduce Insulin Resistance, Obesity and Diabetes Mellitus?
Honey Dressings in Burn Patients
Use of Honey in Diabetic Foot
Antibacterial properties of Honey
Are we losing fight against multi-drug resistant microbes?
Honey as probiotics and prebiotics
Antioxidant properties of Honey
Comparison of different floral Honeys with regard to MIC values against common pathogens
Bees and Bee’s Products
Bee Flora and its Biodiversity
Use of Honey and Transfer Factors in Cancer and Degenerative Diseases
Honey use as Cough Suppressant
Honey Use for Restorative Sleep
Honey Use for Cognitive performance and Memory
Honey as adjuvant to Chemotherapy

Honey is a natural product, produced by Honey Bees from nectar and pollen of flowers prevalent in that particular area. So the honey’s color, taste and smell vary in different parts of the world. So far more than 300 types of Honey have been found.
Honey is produced by bees as food for themselves but the major use is by the humans. Honey is one of the healthy food product having readily assimilable sugars, as these have already been digested by the Bee’s intestinal enzymes.

Honey has been used as food sweetener, for its nutritive and medicinal properties. Honey has been used for times immemorial as traditional remedy for many ailments. However may researchers and scientists now have carried out enormous number of clinical trials, proving the benefits of honey as an effective therapeutic agent. Honey is being used extensively to augment immune responses in patients on chemotherapy, to promote restorative sleep, reducing insulin resistance, control of diabetes mellitus & obesity, as cough suppressant, help in cognitive performance and memory, in delayed/non healing wounds, infected wounds, diabetic foot, gastric ulcers, sore throat, radiation mucositis ad ocular infections. Honey is being used by many ENT Surgeons, Dento-maxillo- facial surgeons and also by the dermatologists for many many ailments.
The first International Conference on Medicinal Uses of Honey was held at Kota Bharu, Kelantan, Malaysia, under the patronage of University Sains Malaysia from Aug.26-28, 2006.This Conference was the first sincere effort to break the hard frozen ice about use of Honey in human ailments. There was a real variety of speakers from all around the globe, to discuss and share their experience about the medicinal uses of honey.

At the concluding ceremony, it was decided unanimously that the next conference will be held at Lahore-Pakistan in 2008.We are trying our level best to organize this event by requesting and attracting a galaxy of international speakers. The emphasis is to develop and provide a platform for western and eastern scientists so as to promote the use of honey on real scientific grounds in different diseases.
Please visit the official website “www.honeyconference .com” It will provide all information about the conference events, abstract submission, Travel arrangements, Registration fees, social program, city tour and accommodation/ hotel arrangements.
Please pass on this information to all colleagues interested in honey use in human diseases. We are anxiously waiting for your guidance and suggestions

With Warm Greetings from Lahore, Pakistan

Ghulam Qadir Fayyaz

Secretary Organizing Committee
Associate Professor Plastic surgery
Services Institute of Medical Sciences/
Services Hospital, Lahore, Pakistan
Email:- gqfayyaz@hotmail. com
Mobile:- 0092+321+4430561
Fax:- 0092+42+5164932

Lead is one of the most toxic metals known to humans. Lead toxicity, especially chronic toxicity has been labeled as a major health problem globally, Pakistan being no exception. Lead toxicity is implicated in severe adverse effects to the central nervous, cardiovascular, hematologic, renal and reproductive systems.

Data from Pakistan show that 70 percent of children as well as adults in urban population of Karachi have blood lead levels above the limits set by international standards (< 10µg/dL for children and <20µg/dL for adults). Currently, there are no satisfactory drugs for chronic Lead toxicity. Intravenous CaNa2EDTA and Penicillamine are available but mainly used for emergency situations like acute Lead poisoning and do not address chronic poisoning. On the other hand, Vitamin C is an inexpensive, safe and readily available chelating agent, which could be explored for its possible Lead detoxifying potential.

An earlier pilot scale study assessing the role of Vitamin C in reducing body Lead levels of children in Karachi showed that treatment with Vitamin C reduced Lead levels in hair while increased urinary excretion. However, such studies with direct measurement of Lead in blood are expected to give more meaningful outcome and also provide an impetus for expanding the study to adult Lead exposed populations on a larger sample size under controlled conditions.

The current investigation aims to study the effects of Vitamin C supplementation in different doses in reducing body Lead levels by assessing whole blood samples. A total of approximately 300 adult subjects of either sex will be recruited and randomly divided into 3 groups. One group shall serve as control with no treatment. The other two groups will receive 500mg and 1000mg Vitamin C respectively for one month. Blood samples will be collected once before treatment (baseline) and then after 15 days and another after 30 days of treatment. Lead in urine will also be determined for a limited number of samples to assess the possible mode of Lead excretion. Blood levels of Vitamin C and hemoglobin will be determined in a selected set of samples to assess their relationship with the baseline values of Lead. Lead estimation will be carried out in all samples on flameless Zeeman Atomic Absorption Spectrophotometer. The study is likely to have a direct impact on public health.

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Synopsis – Lead detoxifying effect of Vitamin C

Ozma Fazal Khan
ozma.fazal@gmail.com
Aga Khan Hospital
Pharmacist
Lead detoxifying effect of Vitamin C in adult population
Research Area: Pharmacology
Name of Supervisor: Dr Anwar-ul-Hassan Gilani
Submitted for degree of: M.Phil in Pharmacology