Dr. Sudha Sharma, MBBS, DGO, FRCOG, MPH, former Secretary of the Ministry of Health and Population, Nepal, is an obstetrician gynecologist and public health expert with major experiences in policy, governance, health systems, and quality of healthcare. She is a Fellow of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, UK, …

Scientists at the Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience (NIN) have recently developed high-resolution brain implants to stimulate shape perception in monkeys, demonstrating the possibility of restoring functional, life-enhancing vision in the blind, a new study reports. This is, however, not the first time visual prosthesis was used to generate artificial vision. …

Everyone is asking the question, when will the vaccine come to Nepal? We tried to find the answer from Dr. Suresh Tiwari, a public health expert, and Dr. Jageshwor Gautam, Spokesperson, Ministry of Health and Population, but unfortunately, they were not available for comment. We did talk to Dr. Prakash …

A Singapore company has developed a breathalyzer test that can detect COVID-19 within a minute. The breath test, which uses in-built machine learning algorithms, claims to have achieved more than 90 per cent accuracy (with sensitivity of 93 percent and specificity of 95 percent) in a pilot clinical trial involving …

The growing evidence suggests that coronavirus, which was originally thought to impact only the respiratory tract, can cause damages to other vital organs like the heart, kidneys, liver, and the brain. Though the studies on long-term effects of COVID-19 are still scant, and the medical fraternity doesn’t know whether one …

Many biotech companies and researchers have developed new testing methods to detect SARS-CoV-2 in order to cut backlogs and increase the accessibility of testing. At the moment, nucleic acid amplification testing (PCR/RT-PCR) is the most widely used platform to detect SARS-CoV-2. It is a gold standard test with high levels …

Nepal reported its first COVID-19 case in a student returning from Wuhan, China, on January 23, 2020. As part of its earliest response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the country installed health desks with thermal scanners at Tribhuwan International Airport. Subsequently, the health desks were extended to other regional airports and …

Countries around the world have used different strategies to beat the COVID-19 pandemic since its emergence in Wuhan, China, last December. Nine months into the pandemic, the world is still struggling to contain the virus with little success. Cases are rising at relentless pace across the globe, and new outbreaks …

Even after nine months since the coronavirus first emerged in Wuhan, many hospitals across the world are facing severe shortages of necessary medical care supplies that are essential for saving the lives of seriously ill COVID-19 patients. And, ventilators are at the forefront. When Europe became the epicenter of pandemic …