May 2021
Opinion
How Nepal can survive 2nd Covid wave
Photo: AMIT MACHAMASI nly a month ago, even prominent doctors in India were declaring that the country had defeated the […]
May 2, 2021
December 2020
Opinion
Staying safe in 2021 and beyond
Photo: NEWS MEDICAL LIFE SCIENCES s a physician, I am at the receiving end of a lot of questions from […]
December 27, 2020
November 2020
Opinion
Glimmers of hope for Nepal on vaccine
Vaccine trial of a Covid-19 vaccine at Oxford University’s Jenner Institute. Photo: UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD/JOHN CAIRNS any Nepalis who had […]
November 27, 2020
August 2020
DHANVANTARI
A Covid-19 exit strategy for Nepal
Photo: BIKRAM RAI he Nepal Health Research Council has decided to allow international researchers to conduct Covid-19 vaccine trials in […]
August 25, 2020
June 2020
DHANVANTARI
The truth about the chloroquine scam
his pandemic is a time for clinical research to help humanity out of the crisis, and scientists are scrambling to […]
June 10, 2020
May 2020
DHANVANTARI
Silver linings in the COVID cloud
Photos: MONIKA DEUPALA he government has officially announced that the young woman who died in Dhulikhel Hospital on Saturday ten […]
May 17, 2020
April 2020
DHANVANTARI
Prevention while searching for a cure
Photo: BIKRAM RAI ith no proven cure or vaccine available yet for COVID-19, various treatments with no proven benefits and potential […]
April 22, 2020
March 2020
DHANVANTARI
Countries cooperating to find COVID-19 cure
Photo: BIKRAM RAI e are in for the long-haul with COVID-19, as the rotating apex of the pandemic now jumps […]
March 30, 2020
DHANVANTARI
Remembering a pandemic 100 years ago
American Red Cross volunteers carrying a Spanish Flu victim in 1919. Photo: RED CROSS he current COVID-19 pandemic has forced many to […]
March 23, 2020
DHANVANTARI
What is novel about the novel coronavirus?
n 2013, while writing a weekly health column in this paper, I explored the potential for MERS (Middle Eastern Respiratory Syndrome) to […]
March 19, 2020