Category: 6. Health

According to the Nepal Department of Health Services, 164 Japanese encephalitis cases have been confirmed this year, compared to 86 cases last year.

Japanese Encephalitis has now spread to 110 municipalities across 42 districts, with 28 districts…

Key takeaways:

1. Experts are calling for postpartum psychosis (PP) to be recognized as its own diagnostic category in the DSM due to its distinct onset and clinical profile.

1. PP affects 0.1% to 0.2% of women without prior mental illness and carries…

A study in more than 40,000 patients has shown that those who had any detectable levels of calcium in the coronary artery were two to three times more likely to die within the next five years,…

The most commonly applied outcome in trials of kidney function is a broad composite of greater than 50% decline in estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR), kidney failure (sustained eGFR <15 mL/min/1.73 m² or the need for renal replacement…

A sleepless night might seem harmless, but according to Hyderabad-based neurologist Dr. Sudhir Kumar, even one night of inadequate rest can have alarming consequences for the brain. In a recent social media post, the Apollo Hospitals consultant…

Congenital heart disease (CHD) mortality is still at its highest in infancy, for both severe (sevCHD) and nonsevere (nsCHD), according to recent research from the Center for Disease Control’s STAR1 registry.¹

Although CHD is the most frequent…