Have you ever thought of ways of giving back to the community but haven’t found …
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Sarika Koirala She is a medical student at Kathmandu Medical College and Teaching Hospital. Being …
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Dr. Brijen L. JoshiHe is a Johns Hopkins-trained specialist in cardiac anesthesiology, critical care, …
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As Nepal advances in neurological care, platforms like NEUROCON play a crucial role in …
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What is De Quervain Tenosynovitis? De Quervain’s tenosynovitis is a painful and inflammatory condition caused …
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In the twenties the skin is naturally good looking, so we tend to care less. The damage implicated on the skin at an early age (at a sub-cellular level) by the free radicals generated from harmful invisible UV rays, pollution, smoke, and stress becomes obvious at later age as dull, dry, …
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Adolescent years are a time of confusion; your body goes through transformations that you barely understand. These changes, however, are not always easy, and even more so for girls and women here in Nepal. Menstruation has been a taboo as well as a stigma for women throughout the history of …
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Chances are that you might have heard about lupus after Selena Gomez declared she had it and went through treatment for her kidney transplant. Lupus is a debilitating disease that a majority of the people in Nepal hasn’t heard about. The truth is, I had no idea what lupus was …
Read More »I have been the victim of a skin disease known as ‘psoriasis’, which I am dealing with for last 20 years. Psoriasis is a skin disease that causes itchy sore patches of thick, red dry (dead) skin scales. I was around 19 when it first appeared. What a dread …
Read More »Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (often called “COPD”) is one of the most important diseases of the 21st century, being a major cause of death and disability. COPD is a common, preventable, and treatable disease characterized by persistent respiratory symptoms and airflow limitation that is not fully reversible. The airflow limitation …
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According to a forecast by analysts of GlobalData, a British data analytics and consulting firm, Merck’s Keytruda is expected to reach the top of the bestselling pharma list in 2025, with sales of $22.5 billion. Keytruda (pembrolizumab), a humanized antibody used in cancer immunotherapy, is used for the treatment of …
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The expiry date is the final day that the manufacturer guarantees the full potency and safety of a medication. In general, drugs expiration date is 2-5 years from production date. The expiration date does not indicate a point when a medication loses potency and is no longer effective or becomes …
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The patient had huge blisters all over his body. His skin was peeling off, and he was being treated as a case of severe burns. Despite the best efforts of the medical personnel, the patient did not survive. The patient was suffering from leprosy and was being treated with three …
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Per se, the word ‘health’ stands incomplete, odd, and under-described, until it’s paired with some other word. In order to make the word ‘health’ complete, sharp, and meaningful, this word has to be appended with another commanding word, ‘service’, so that the sense is endowed with more power. This pragmatic …
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Non-communicable diseases (NCDs) have become the leading cause of global deaths, with 41 million deaths (71%) each year mainly due to cardiovascular diseases, cancers, respiratory diseases, and diabetes, according to the World Health Organization. NCDs disproportionately affect people in low- and middle-income countries, with more than three quarters of global …
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