The World Health Organization estimates that 13 million children aged 5-15 years worldwide are visually impaired from uncorrected refractive error [1]. Uncorrected refractive errors are the most common cause of visual impairment in school children in Nepal [2,3]. Correction of refractive error through provision of spectacles improves vision related quality of life and self reported visual funct...

Family planning is a priority program of the Government of Nepal. Despite political instability in the last two decades, Nepal has achieved remarkable progress in the overall status of reproductive health, including family planning. Married women of reproductive age have been increasingly using contraceptive from 1980s to 2006. However, Nepal Demographic Health Survey 2011 has shown unexpected ...

Regional cancer epidemiology is an important basis for determining the priorities for cancer control in different countries worldwide. There is no reliable information about the pattern of head and neck cancer in western Nepal and hence an attempt was here made to evaluate the situation based on hospital data, which provide the only source in the western region of Nepal. A clinicopathological a...

BACKGROUND Adult mortality (15-49 years) is one of the major public health issues which remains neglected in many developing counties like Nepal. Only limited data are available which is insufficient to identify the cause and level of mortality among adults. OBJECTIVES The aim of the study is to explore and compare the adult mortality rate of Nepal between 1996, 2001 and 2006 surveys. MATER...

Both the number of cases of dengue fever and the areas of outbreaks within Nepal have increased significantly in recent years. Further expansion and range shift is expected in the future due to global climate change and other associated factors. However, due to limited spatially-explicit research in Nepal, there is poor understanding about the present spatial distribution patterns of dengue ris...

Though the history of in-country training of doctors in Nepal is not long, Nepal had started training doctors in abroad long ago. This is probably the first paper of its kind to correlate the developmental and ecological region to the country of training of Nepali doctors. This retrospective analysis reveals that nearly 38% doctors are trained in India, 22% each from former USSR and Nepal, 10% ...

Interest in sandalwood has increased recently in Nepal as a result of a royal directive to plant it in the Eastern Development Region. The most suitable seed sources, seed acquisition, nursery techniques, direct sowing and plantation establishment methods are discussed here on the basis of results from elsewhere. Suggestions are made as to what research is most needed to assist with successful ...

1 Centre for Plant Biotechnology, Division of Biotechnology, S K University of Agricultural Sciences and Technology of Kashmir, Srinagar, India, 2 Research Laboratory for Biotechnology and Biochemistry, Kathmandu, Nepal, 3 GRADE Academy Private Limited, Birgunj, Nepal, 4 Faculty of Health and Sport Sciences and Tsukuba International Academy for Sport Studies, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Jap...

IUCN Category: Vulnerable, A2cd CITES Listing: Appendix I Scientific Names: Melursus ursinus (occasionally Ursus ursinus); Melursus ursinus ursinus in India, Nepal, Bhutan, and Bangladesh; Melursus ursinus inornatus in Sri Lanka Common Names: sloth bear; Northern India and Nepal: bhalu; India: rinch, reech, richwa, asval, karadi, puni karadi, elugu bunti; Sri Lanka: walaha (male), waelahinna (f...

This is the very first checklist of the terrestrial gastropods of Nepal. It includes 138 species and six subspecies, of which 22 species are endemic and four are introduced. It highlights 34 species recorded for the first time in Nepal and provides new distribution records for another 30 species.