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Managing the Pain

Injury, surgery, and certain medical conditions like arthritis, back problems, and cancer are the most common causes of pain in adults, and headache and back pain, along with pain in the neck, limbs, and shoulders, are the ones that are most commonly reported. Pain is a complex protective mechanism that …

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Preserving the Power of Antibiotics

‘His breath was in short irregular bursts. His face was bathed in sweat and he moaned in pain. His skin was colored a dusky slate grey. His upper arm was swollen and was exuding pus. Death was in the air. Four days ago he had suffered a sword wound in …

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Colistin Likelihood for Dosage Error

The comeback of colistin as “salvage therapy” for multi-drug resistant pathogens is on the rise. Colistin (also known as polymyxin E) belongs to the polymyxin group of antibiotics.1 It is available in two forms, colistin sulfate and colistimethate sodium (CMS).2 In our country, colistin is available as colistimethate sodium (CMS) …

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Antibiotic Resistance, Emerging New Threats

We just finished celebrating “Antibiotic Awareness Week” last month. It made me ponder whether all the efforts we put into it are working or not. I live in the capital city of Nepal, where we have hundreds of hospitals and large tertiary-care and multi-specialty centers, and I still lost my …

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Better Skin at Any Age

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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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Menstruation Blues

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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Learning, Living, and Thriving with Lupus

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 …

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Coping With the Many Problems of Psoriasis

  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 …

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COPD: An Overview

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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