Predictors of Contraceptive practice in married women of Punjab, Pakistan.

Objective: Pakistan is the sixth most populous country in the world. Current contraceptive use in Pakistan is only 26% despite being one of the leading countries in Asia to launch National family planning programs. Major constraint of acceptability among women is the lack of awareness and implementation of contraceptive methods.

Efficacy of linking Breast Awareness Clinics in Gynecology and Obstetrics departments: A pilot project in Zubaida Bani Wing, Fazle-Omar Hospital, Chenab Nagar, Pakistan.

Objectives: Pakistani female population has the highest incidence of Breast cancer among the women belonging to all other Asian countries. This contributed to 28.7% of all new cases of malignancies in 2020 and is also the cause of uppermost cancer mortality in Pakistani females.

Homozygous mutation in the NPHP3 gene causing foetal nephronophthisis.

We present a case of a foetal sonographic finding of hyper-echogenic kidneys, which led to a strategic series of genetic tests and identified a homozygous mutation (c.424C > T, p. R142*) in the NPHP3 gene.