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Nepal is a developing country with rapidly changing trend of disease pattern from communicable to non-communicable disease. It is because of the increasing number of population living in urban areas, sedentary lifestyle, unhealthy eating pattern, and stressful life events. The prevalence of coronary artery disease, which is around 6%, is …

The months leading up to the birth of a child are crucial for both the mother and the child. Nepal has been making a lot of effort to improve maternal and infant health, and has steadily been improving the care that mothers and infants receive during this time. Nepal Demography …

Understanding of human sperm and biology of human fertilization has improved over the years, after WHO started standardizing semen analysis and new research results became available. Objective data and information about important measures like mechanism of sperm capacitation, hyper activation of sperm, the ability of sperm to bind zona pellucid, …

Like any other disease, cancer has become more common than we really realize. The National Institute of Cancer estimates 600,920 cancer deaths in 2017 in the US alone. The only prevention of these ever-escalating deaths due to cancer is to have an effective screening program every nation should put in …

Tumor markers are used for monitoring the effectiveness of treatment. They are used to see if there are recurrent causes of cancer. That is the true use of serum tumor markers, but serum tumor markers have found utility in other segments, as well. For example, there are tumor markers for …

Completing 18 long years since Shape Up Slimming Center launched a health movement in Kathmandu in the year 2002, Lima Adhikari, CEO of Shape Up Slimming Center, shared the story of how the venture became as successful as it is now. Before founding the fitness centre, Lima came from a …

  Many people exhibit chronic food sensitivity reactions to specific food antigens. Unlike the immediate effects of IgE-mediated allergy, IgG-mediated food sensitivity reactions may take several hours or days to appear. Controlled removal of the problem foods from the diet will, in many cases, lead to rapid improvement in the …

Ayurveda is often defined as a ‘cultural life science’, or a ‘culture-based health system’, and so one may not find everything on the subject as strictly codified as other sciences. That is not to say that there are no documents pertaining to this ancient science, but still, a lot of …

About a quarter of people with Graves’ disease develop thyroid eye disease (TED). TED can happen at any time. It can develop before, during, or after the over-active thyroid disorder is diagnosed, though the two usually come on roughly at the same time. In most cases, the eye disease is …