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Chronic pain in the knee, hip, and back affects many people, which impairs the quality of life itself. Most guidelines to manage the pain emphasize the role of physical activity/exercise and maintaining a healthy body weight. However, people associate physical activity with the onset and increase of pain, assuming that …

Capping the ends of bones, cartilage is a rubbery layer that stops them rubbing together. With age, ‘wear and tear’ of the cartilage results in osteoarthritis, leading to knee pain in some people. New areas of development in treatment include novel drugs and implants of stem cells (immature cells that …

The presence of an encouraging number of women in the medical field has resulted in a diverse surgical workforce. A career in surgery has significant lifestyle implications: the profession is associated with a high degree of patient acuity, significant on-call responsibility, and irregular work hours, all requiring a substantial commitment …

Another year, another step towards mass annihilation. This is it folks, this is the article where I give all of you a vague, vapid, everlasting and never-ending alarm about how the world is going to end—or is it? Is our planet really nose-diving into oblivion? Is this remarkably overblown? There …

On April 14, 2017, the Government of Nepal instituted a ban on vehicle horns in Kathmandu Valley. A couple of years before this happened, around 2015 or 2016, I remember going to work every day around 10 in the morning. And, as soon as the vehicle would reach Baneswor Chowk, …

“I smoked my first joint at the age of 15 with my school friends out of curiosity. I did that because my friends were doing it. It was at college where I was introduced to other drugs, and I started taking pills and cough syrup on a regular basis. These …

Overview Wisdom tooth, buddhi-bangara, or a third molar, is the last tooth to erupt in the back corner of our oral cavity. Most adults have four wisdom teeth, one each per quadrant. Generally, wisdom teeth erupt between late teens to early twenties. Sometimes, there is not enough space in the …

Vision loss that cannot be corrected with conventional glasses, contacts, or surgery is termed as low vision. It interferes with the daily performance of the individual, so a person with low vision must learn how to adjust to it. According to the latest global estimate, 36 million were blind, 216•6 …

Russia’s COVID vaccine, Sputnik V, was approved for use in Russia on August 2020, while China launched its vaccine, Sinopharm, in December 2020. In the same month, Pfizer and BioNTech’s jabs were granted EUA, followed shortly after by Moderna’s mRNA and AstraZeneca’s viral vector vaccines. Janssen launched its single-shot vaccine …

Case details A 27-year-old lady came to the outpatient department (OPD) with the chief complaint of large clitoris and an abnormally large lump beneath it, which she and her partner noticed during their sexual intercourse. She was brought up as a normal healthy female child and got married at 16 …