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A global phenomenon, the effects of bullying can be both short- and long-term, resulting in both physiological and psychological symptoms, and it is likely that dental care professionals will encounter children who are subjected to bullying. Clinicians and parents should be aware that children with a malocclusion could be subjected …

Currently, tobacco products are estimated to be responsible for 3 million deaths annually worldwide, or about 6% of all deaths. But, by the 2020s or early 2030s, it is expected to cause 10.9% of all deaths in developing countries and 17.7% of those in developed countries, more than any single …

Background Paropakar Maternity and Women’s Hospital (PMWH) was established with the joint effort of Paropakar Sansthan and the erstwhile royal family in 2016 BS (1959 AD). Construction of hospital was started from 2010 and completed in 2016. This is the central maternity and women’s hospital serving people from all over …

Down syndrome is the most common inherited cause of mental retardation. Prenatal aneuploidy screening can be done in the first or second trimester of pregnancy to evaluate the risk of Down syndrome and other genetic conditions in the fetus. By the time a mother knows she is pregnant, the karyotype …

‘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 …

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) …

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 …

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, …