Augmentation of anti-platelet effects of aspirin.

Objective: To establish the anti-platelet or aspirin like effects of flavonoid rich food (chocolate).

Methods: This was a non-randomized quasi experimental study in which, 65 healthy adult volunteers, 27 males and 38 females, participated. The subjects included were healthy, non-smoking adults.

Cystic fibrosis in a child with situs inversus, a distinctively unusual association.

Cystic fibrosis is the most frequently witnessed potentially lethal autosomal recessive, genetic disease but its incidence is extremely low in South-Asian population. We report a case Cystic Fibrosis in a patient with Situs inversus, a condition not witnessed in medical literature of Pakistan or more captivatingly even Asia. The patient was a three and half years old male child presenting with a history of fever, cough and jaundice.