Clinical Research Archives

Guillain-Barré Syndrome Following Acute Pancreatitis: A rare but important association

Recently, I came across a fascinating case report in the International Journal of Medical Students that described an unusual and rarely reported clinical association: Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS) developing in a…

Hamd Waseem January 28, 2026

Clinical Research Public Health

Combating Rheumatic Heart Disease in Pakistan: A student perspective

So, I recently came across an article in the International Journal of Medical Students about a student-led program in Pakistan tackling something called Rheumatic Heart Disease (RHD). RHD is a…

Hamd Waseem January 7, 2026

Clinical Research Pathology Studies

Can We Really Cure Ageing?

https://youtu.be/T8bMzDPzq0U We often think of ageing as nature’s one unbreakable law. Everyone gets older. Cells slow down, tissues wear out, and eventually, the body gives in. But over the past…

Hamd Waseem October 4, 2025

Chemical Pathways Clinical Research

Pharmacogenomics – How Your Genes Influence Drug Response

So you've probably noticed this at some point: two people taking the same medication for the same condition but both experience very different effects. One gets better quickly with no…

Hamd Waseem August 3, 2025

Clinical Research Paper Reviews

Is It Possible to Identify TB Only By A Patient’s Cough?

https://innotub.eu/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/5149398656_ebd66669fa_z.jpg Recently I've been working on finding sources for my HPQ about AI assisted diagnostics methods for TB (tuberculosis), when I stumbled upon a research article that proposed the usage…

Hamd Waseem February 3, 2025

Clinical Research Public Health

hMPV Explained, And Why You Don’t Need To Worry

hMPV has recently worried many people over the world due an increase in cases of it in China. It's one of the viruses that causes common cold, and for some it may actually cause more severe symptoms. But you don't need to worry too much [...]

Hamd Waseem January 19, 2025

Clinical Research Public Health

Debunking 4 Myths Behind Vaccines

http://www.blog.percura.hamdtel.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/covid-vaccine-web.png Although vaccines save 4-5 million lives a year, there is still a lot of misinformation that surrounds them. After seeing the development of the COVID-19 vaccine and the number…

Hamd Waseem December 20, 2024

Clinical Advancments Clinical Research

What is CRISPR? Gene-Editing Explained & Should We Be Doing It?

http://www.blog.percura.hamdtel.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/1290-shutterstock_1202782540.jpg CRISPR, short for Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats, has taken the world by storm since its discovery in the 1980s. What started as a natural defence mechanism in bacteria has evolved into one of…

Hamd Waseem December 17, 2024