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Nepal reported its first COVID-19 case in a student returning from Wuhan, China, on January 23, 2020. As part of its earliest response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the country installed health desks with thermal scanners at Tribhuwan International Airport. Subsequently, the health desks were extended to other regional airports and …

Countries around the world have used different strategies to beat the COVID-19 pandemic since its emergence in Wuhan, China, last December. Nine months into the pandemic, the world is still struggling to contain the virus with little success. Cases are rising at relentless pace across the globe, and new outbreaks …

The Ebola outbreak in West Africa in 2014 claimed 4,810 lives in Liberia, 3,956 in Sierra Leone, and 2,544 in Guinea. The COVID-19 pandemic has already claimed 766,080 lives in about 213 countries from December 31, 2019, to August 16, 2020. Even in a relatively modest outbreak, compared to the …

Even after nine months since the coronavirus first emerged in Wuhan, many hospitals across the world are facing severe shortages of necessary medical care supplies that are essential for saving the lives of seriously ill COVID-19 patients. And, ventilators are at the forefront. When Europe became the epicenter of pandemic …

Basel, 13 March 2020 – Roche, a global pioneer in pharmaceuticals and diagnostics, announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued an Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) for the cobas® SARS-CoV-2 Test. It is intended for the qualitative detection of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19 disease, in …

Medical education is one of the most competitive and demanding professions. It was only after the dawn of democracy in 1950 that the Department of Health Service was established in Nepal (1). During the past 70 years, more hospital and academic centers for health services have come up in different …

PREFACE Pain has a myriad of concepts, and no one really welcomes pain and always tries to dispose of it as soon as possible. This is understandable, as pain is unpleasant and irksome, but the unpleasantness of pain is what it makes it so effective and an essential part of …

Humans have gained immensely from the advancement of science and technology, and now they even have the power to control their fertility. Both the eggs and sperm can be frozen and used when needed. Eggs freezing is a new way of delaying a woman’s pregnancy, it allows a woman to …

Many studies have linked decrease in cholesterol levels to increased aggression, and aggression has been reported in patients taking statins, with the increase higher in women. The risk of violence is different in men and women, with age also being a determining factor. In an intriguing study published on July …

This last month, I have had opportunity to know more about what’s happening in some sectors of the healthcare sector in Kathmandu. I visited a Korean aesthetic center, where I was completely bowled over by its ambience. Its interiors were very well designed, but even more impressive was their hospitality. …