Words by Ojaswee Karki The first ever question Oncologists receive with a new cancer diagnosis has always been How long will I survive? I was overwhelmed, shocked, and devastated. Nobody in my family ever had cancer, which made my diagnosis more difficult to handle. After a final PET scan, I …

Words By – Sushil Thapa Cardiovascular fitness is crucial for reducing dementia risk, enhancing mental well-being, and strengthening immunity. The advantages of raising body temperature through hot baths have been established by various studies linking frequent sauna use to decreased risks of cardiovascular disease, sudden cardiac death, stroke, and dementia. …

Kathmandu’s mayor is also regarded as the metropolis’s father/mother. This is meaningful. Just like the role the leader of the household has to play at times when the home’s electricity supply is disturbed, when no water comes from the taps, when there is problem with the sewage, when some member …

Presently, Kathmandu, a cultural city with a proud history, is wounded and has been made sick and ailing. It has been torn at and hurt badly. Additionally, it has been subject to insufferable injustice. Kathmandu is now in the ICU. There are reasons behind this. For 30 years, it was …

Various political parties have been taking the responsibility of Kathmandu for the last 30 years. We, who have been living here for ages, have been seeing and suffering the mode of governance here. We know what Kathmandu was like, and how it is now. The problems grew, but there were …

Like any other disease, cancer has become more common than we really realize. The National Institute of Cancer estimates 600,920 cancer deaths in 2017 in the US alone. The only prevention of these ever-escalating deaths due to cancer is to have an effective screening program every nation should put in …

  Many people exhibit chronic food sensitivity reactions to specific food antigens. Unlike the immediate effects of IgE-mediated allergy, IgG-mediated food sensitivity reactions may take several hours or days to appear. Controlled removal of the problem foods from the diet will, in many cases, lead to rapid improvement in the …

Longevity is what we all look for. At the same time, quality of life is important to lead a fun filled life. All the innovations and advancements in diagnostics, advanced technology in treatment, consistent R&D in pharmaceuticals, nutraceuticals and supplements, and all those vaccines have made the miracle of a …

As far as the reasons behind heart attacks are concerned, the science behind cholesterol looks to be very fishy and undiscovered, although there is a flood of medications, especially statin drugs, that claim to reduce the number in test results, but do not reduce the risk substantially. The reasons being …