Behaviour change needed to combat malnutrition in Nepal
Source: IRIN
Kathmandu :: Nepal | updated 2013-04-30 21:28:06 -0700 | health-news
More work is needed to improve nutritional behaviour in Nepal, where nearly half of children under five are chronically malnourished, experts say...Across the country, childhood malnutrition, which results in stunting (low height-for-age, also known as chronic malnutrition) and other long-term...
Medical costs force Nepal's poor to abandon family
Source: United Press International
Kathmandu :: Nepal | updated 2013-04-03 15:40:50 -0700 | health-news
Mithila Bishunkhe, a frail 18-year-old, lies on a bed in Tribhuvan University Teaching Hospital in Kathmandu, Nepal's capital...I long to see my friends and family, but my wish has not been fulfilled, she says. Bishunkhe is from Chisane, a village...
YOGA AS A HEALING TOOL FOR RESPIRATORY AND LUNG DISEASES
Posted by: Dhakal
Kathmandu :: Nepal | updated 2012-06-24 08:58:33 -0700 | health-news
YOGA AS A HEALING TOOL FOR RESPIRATORY AND LUNG DISEASES Yoga’s primary emphasis is upon general well-being. Yoga employs a broad holistic approach that focuses on teaching people a new lifestyle, way of thinking, and way of being in the...
Burns seeking treatment
Posted by: Ramkumar Elan
Kathmandu :: Nepal | updated 2012-05-15 05:22:58 -0700 | health-news
A chepang, ethenic in Nepal, boy seeking treatment...
Everyday Heroes in Battle Against Aids
Posted by: hilton khadka
Kathmandu :: Nepal | updated 2012-04-18 12:17:38 -0700 | health-news
Aids as it is know as sexually transmitted disease (STDs).AIDS affects nations, continents and communities, but for citizens dealing with the disease each day, it's a delicate battle they have to fight and approach to conditions with themselves. A person...
Nutrition Challenges in Developing World
Posted by: Dadhi Aryal
Kathmandu :: Nepal | updated 2012-04-19 02:56:49 -0700 | health-news
The world has achieved on the one hand many things but the developing world has problem to feed its new born babies and pregnant women too. Especially , in South Asia and Africa many new born babies and pregnant women...
Poor Nutrition and Dark Future
Posted by: Dadhi Aryal
Kathmandu :: Nepal | updated 2012-04-19 02:57:57 -0700 | health-news
Various studies and research conducted on child health and nutrition revealed that 80% children under age 2 years are suffering from anemia in rural communities of Nepal. Majority of mothers do not have knowledge of intensive breast feed for six...
Nepa l: Acute blood shortage affects patients
Posted by: Bikash
Kathmandu :: Nepal | updated 2012-01-09 17:53:27 -0800 | health-news
There is an acute shortage of blood in many parts of the country including the Blood Transfusion Centre (BTC) at Nepal Red Cross Society (NRCS), the sole organisation for blood collection, affecting hundreds of needy patients. Bimal Mitrakoti’s cousin, Prabha...
25.16 percent Nepalis below poverty line: NLSS-III
Posted by: Surya Gaire
Kathmandu :: Nepal | updated 2012-07-26 20:53:29 -0700 | health-news
It has been officially announced on Thursday that 25.16 percent of Nepalis are living below the poverty line. The result was released after the survey “Third Nepal Living Standards Survey (NLSS-III).” The survey report indicate that there is absolute reduce...
Google earth used to map infectious disease spread
Posted by: anonymous
Kathmandu :: Nepal | updated 2011-12-10 13:56:34 -0800 | health-news
The mapping of infectious diseases can be vitally important to determining the source of the infectious disease and eradicating it. As far back as the mid-19th century John Snow mapped cases of cholera in Soho, London, and traced the source...
Heart disease major cause of death
Posted by: Bikash
Kathmandu :: Nepal | updated 2012-07-21 16:12:39 -0700 | health-news
Some 17.5 million people die of heart diseases worldwide, say experts.They have said that heart diseases are caused because of smoking and hypertension, adding more people of town areas are affected from the diseases as compared to the people of...
Nepal : People flock to see female condom
Posted by: Bikash
Dharān :: Nepal | updated 2012-01-09 18:04:47 -0800 | health-news
Unlike other days, there was a crowd of people from different walks of life at Loktantrik Chowk in Dharan on Saturday. Curiosity and coyness were visible in the faces of onlookers. They were present there to see Femidom (condom used...
World Mental health Day: Whither investment on mental health?
Posted by: Bikash
Kathmandu :: Nepal | updated 2012-01-09 18:09:12 -0800 | health-news
As Nepal braces itself to observe the World Mental Health Day on October 10, the National Mental Health Policy is said to be gathering dust. At a time when the whole world has been focusing on the prevention and awareness...
WORLD HEART DAY : Let's take care of our heart
Posted by: Bikash
Kathmandu :: Nepal | updated 2012-01-09 18:20:26 -0800 | health-news
TALKING WITH DR. BHARAT RAWAT Another ‘World Heart Day’ is here! Like any other "day", it may also lose its impact as time goes by. We, doctors and media personnel, try to create awareness about healthy living on this day....
IRON POISONING
Posted by: Surya Gaire
Kathmandu :: Nepal | updated 2012-07-26 21:24:09 -0700 | health-news
Iron poisoning is caused by a large excess of iron intake. It has been primarily been associated with young children who consumed large quantities of iron supplement pills, which resemble sweets and are widely used, including by pregnant women. Targeted...
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