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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 …

Seventy percent of all breast cancers are estrogen-receptor positive, and hormone therapies are used to treat this type of breast cancer. A course of hormone therapy (either tamoxifen or aromatase inhibitors) targeting estrogen receptors are given after first removing the tumor with surgery. But, about 30 percent of patients taking …

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 …

A new World Health Organization (WHO) study published in The Lancet Child & Adolescent Health Journal has found that more than 80% of school kids worldwide (85% of girls and 78% of boys, aged 11 to 17 years) did not meet the current recommendation of at least one hour of …

  Pancreatic cancer (PC), an aggressive malignancy with one of the highest mortality rates amongst cancers, is characterized by rapid development, fast growth, and frequent lymph node metastasis, which contribute to its very poor prognosis. The overall five-year survival rate of patients with pancreatic cancer is only about nine percent …

The two big trees of law and medicine have branches spread out that tend to intersect at a point—Medical Jurisprudence. “Study of laws related to medicine” and “administration of medical knowledge for administrations of law” are sentences that, although sounding adversarial, happen to swirl around each other, forming a bridge …

Dr. Pukar Chandra Shrestha is Executive Director of Human Organ Transplant Centre, Nepal. He has been credited with establishing the institution as the most successful kidney transplant centre in Nepal. Dr. Shrestha returned to Nepal after completing MRCS from Royal College of Edinburgh, UK, to start a transplant program at …

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 …

Blood Transfusion Service Center (BTSC) of Nepal Red Cross Society (NRCS) was established in 1966, three years after the formation of NRCS. The NRCS has 108 blood transfusion centers across the country through which it makes 24-hour availability of safe blood for transfusion to the needy. The revised national guidelines …