Th is study employed pretestposttest experimental group design to study the impact of vipassana at Nepal Vipassana center(NVC) on anxiety and depression of students taking the course for the first time. Th irty one subjects (students) were studied. Vipassana is found to be effective to reduce the severity of depressive symptoms significantly (p=0.001). Vipassana could be the option for treating...

background: malaria is a major cause of morbidity and mortality in nepal. the magnitude of malaria across the country is alarming and varies with location. therefore, the present study aimed to model malaria incidence rates during 1998 to 2009 in nepal. methods: data for the study were obtained from health management information system (hmis), ministry of public health. a negative binomial mode...

objective: regardless of three decades of implementation of family planning program in nepal, need of family planning services is largely unmet. systematic studies, evaluating the impact of family program on several ethnic groups of nepal has not been carried out in large scale. this study sheds light on the investigation of, whether the use of contraceptives varies among different ethnic group...

background and objectives: shigella plays an important role as a causative organism of acute gastroenteritis, in children and others. rapid emergence of antibiotic resistance warrants continuous monitoring of susceptibility pattern of bacterial isolates. we report here our findings about shigella spp. isolates and their drug resistance patterns in nepalese patients. materials and methods: the s...

this paper presents the analysis of the onset and withdrawal dates and the duration of summer monsoon over nepal for last 63 years (1951-2013). the trend analysis revealed that both the onset and withdrawal of summer monsoon are delayed in recent years. the statistical analysis using cumulative deviation and worsley likelihood tests showed a step jump in mean withdrawal date after the year 1997...

In the last decades, rice yields in South Asian countries grew tremendously in one hand and a noticeable yield fluctuation on the other. The objective of this study was to examine the rice yield distributions, estimate yield risks at country level, and compare risks between five countries namely Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Sri Lanka, and Pakistan. Anderson Darling (AD) test was applied to t...

Address for correspondence: Dr. Devendra Shrestha Department of Paediatrics, KIST Medical College and Teaching Hospital, Imadol, Lalitpur, Nepal. Email: [email protected] Tel No; +977-9851108123 1Dr. Devendra Shrestha, Associate Professor, Department of Paediatrics, KIST Medical College and Teaching Hospital, Imadol, Lalitpur, Nepal, 2Dr. Ajaya Kumar Dhakal, Lecturer, Department of Pa...

* Dr. Resident, Department of ENT and Head and Neck Surgery, T. U. Teaching Hospital, Kathmandu, Nepal. ** Professor, Department of ENT and Head and Neck Surgery, T. U. Teaching Hospital, Kathmandu, Nepal. *** Professor and HOD, Department of Pathology, T. U. Teaching Hospital, Kathmandu, Nepal. **** Dr. Associate Professor, Department of ENT and Head and Neck Surgery, T. U. Teaching Hospital, ...

www.thelancet.com Vol 374 August 15, 2009 515 On May 4, 2009, Pushpa Kamal Dahal, the Maoist Prime Minister of Nepal, resigned, adding yet another stage to the transformation of Nepal from bullets to ballots. The Maoists had initiated a leg islative agenda to “secure rights for all minority people in Nepal”. Politicians and everyday Nepalese alike spoke of the “New Nepal” with great promise, an...

though muslims have been living in nepal from the 15th century, they have started practicingtheir religious activities freely only after enactment of new civil code in 1963. this paper aims to explore the potentials and problems on the existing mosques, perception of the religious structures by muslim community and analysing of existing legal and institutional framework before drawing a conclus...