Receiving healthcare for drug-resistant TB: a cross-sectional survey from Pakistan.

Objective: To describe and quantify patients' self-reported experiences of receiving healthcare from Pakistan's Programmatic Management of Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis (PMDT) model of care, and to understand these experiences within the broader context of Pakistan's health system.

Method: This was a cross-sectional survey of patients attending three PMDT clinics in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Province in Pakistan.

Results: The median consultation time at the PMDT clinics was 10 minutes.

Detection of genetic variations of regulator of G-protein signaling 2 in hypertensives by sequencing.

Objective: To investigate the new genetic variations of regulator of G-protein signalling 2 (RGS2) gene in Kazakh hypertensives.

Methods: Totally 94 Kazakh patients with essential hypertension were enrolled and genomic DNA was extracted from their peripheral blood leukocytes. All the exon regions and their flanking sequences of RGS2 were directly sequenced.