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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, …

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 …

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 …

  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 …

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 …

According to a forecast by analysts of GlobalData, a British data analytics and consulting firm, Merck’s Keytruda is expected to reach the top of the bestselling pharma list in 2025, with sales of $22.5 billion. Keytruda (pembrolizumab), a humanized antibody used in cancer immunotherapy, is used for the treatment of …

The expiry date is the final day that the manufacturer guarantees the full potency and safety of a medication. In general, drugs expiration date is 2-5 years from production date. The expiration date does not indicate a point when a medication loses potency and is no longer effective or becomes …