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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 …

Namoti Nembang in conversation with Dr. Raamesh Koirala, cardiac surgeon at SGNHC An international normalized ratio (INR) test is critical for all people who are receiving warfarin treatment. Warfarin, a vitamin K antagonist, is one of the most widely prescribed anticoagulants. But it is difficult to manage, as it has …

Global health addresses social issues and attributes that are contextual and knocks on the social determinants of health of an individual and the community and the society when looking for solutions. Global health is a relatively new term, a few years or decades old, coming of age of late measured …

Thin Endometrium and Platelet Rich Plasma Therapy Despite recent developments in assisted reproductive techniques (ART), the implantation rates still remain relatively low. Successful implantation requires high quality embryo and receptive endometrium. The receptive endometrium is defined as a healthy uterine milieu containing the transformation of endometrial cells into decidua cells …