25th Anniversary International Scientific Conference-2016: Recent submissions

  • Armitage, J. (Faculty of Medicine, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2016)
    OBJECTIVES : 1. To understand the importance of different lipids to vascular disease risk and how genetics have helped 2. To reiterate the value and safety of statins as a first line therapy for lipid modification 3. To ...
  • Lalloo, D. (Faculty of Medicine, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2016)
    OBJECTIVE: To understand the ongoing challenges to improving outcomes following snakebite around the world. The existing state of our knowledge about the epidemiology and management of snakebite around the world will be ...
  • Patel, A. (Faculty of Medicine, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2016)
    Medical students worldwide are still taught that “hypertension” is a disease, and that if a person develops this disease, they now have a major risk factor for cardiovascular diseases (CVD). However, in countless epidemiological ...
  • Rees, D.C. (Faculty of Medicine, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2016)
    OBJECTIVES: 1. To describe the world distribution of haemoglobin disorders 2. To describe the health burden of haemoglobin disorders Haemoglobin disorders are the commonest, severe inherited disorders in the world, ...
  • de Silva, J. (Faculty of Medicine, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2016)
    Universities should be engines for knowledge generation. Although there are signs of change, a research culture is not widespread in Sri Lankan universities. It was in this environment that the Faculty of Medicine was ...
  • Williams, S. (Faculty of Medicine, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2016)
    Few countries in the world have experienced the myriad traumas that Sri Lanka has faced over the past three decades. The 30 year civil war was perhaps the most traumatic and disabling. It was not only the people in the ...

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