Dhanvantari

To boost or not to boost

To boost or not to boost

We must not go for third doses when so much of the world has not even got its first Covid-19 vaccine shot

Buddha Basnyat

Dying to get vaccinated

Dying to get vaccinated

Scientists can invent vaccines, but political scientists cannot find answers to vaccine denial

Buddha Basnyat

How Nepal can survive 2nd Covid wave

How Nepal can survive 2nd Covid wave

Masking up, physical separation and mass immunisation

Buddha Basnyat

Staying safe in 2021 and beyond

Staying safe in 2021 and beyond

The only way to prevent Covid-19 for now is for Nepalis to mask up, avoid crowds and wash hands

Buddha Basnyat

Glimmers of hope for Nepal on vaccine

Glimmers of hope for Nepal on vaccine

The Oxford Vaccine against Covid-19 is possibly the most proximate immunisation option for Nepalis

Buddha Basnyat

A Covid-19 exit strategy for Nepal

A Covid-19 exit strategy for Nepal

Nepali Times medical columnist assesses ongoing research into diagnosis, therapy and vaccines

Buddha Basnyat

The truth about the chloroquine scam

The truth about the chloroquine scam

It is still useful for countries like Nepal to collaborate in international drug trials for COVID-19

Buddha Basnyat

Silver linings in the COVID cloud

Silver linings in the COVID cloud

Precautions against the virus may in future also save lives of Nepalis who would otherwise die of pre-existing infections

Buddha Basnyat

Prevention while searching for a cure

Prevention while searching for a cure

Hand-washing and masks will help Nepal cope with infectious diseases that pre-date COVID-19

Buddha Basnyat

Countries cooperating to find COVID-19 cure

Countries cooperating to find COVID-19 cure

Nepal should be involved in the WHO’s ‘Solidarity Trial’ for a novel coronavirus antidote

Buddha Basnyat

Remembering a pandemic 100 years ago

Remembering a pandemic 100 years ago

There are important lessons for the Subcontinent from the 1918 Spanish Flu outbreak

Buddha Basnyat

What is novel about the novel coronavirus?

What is novel about the novel coronavirus?

Everything you want to know about COVID-19 and the threat it poses to Nepal

Buddha Basnyat

Detecting heart murmurs

Echocardiogram machines are even available in remote corners of Nepal

Dhanvantari by Buddha Basnyat, MD

Temporary paralysis

Bell’s palsy affects one in 65 people at some point in their lives

Dhanvantari by Buddha Basnyat, MD

H. Pylori: the good and the bad.

In 1982, to the astonishment of the medical world, two Australian scientists, Barry Marshall and J. Robin Warren discovered a bacterium…

Dhanvantari by Buddha Basnyat, MD

Breathe

Awareness and early prognosis of asthma can save lives

Dhanvantari by Buddha Basnyat, MD

On shaky ground

Looking around Kathmandu, it's clear we haven't learnt our lesson from the 1934 earthquake

Dhanvantari by Buddha Basnyat, MD

Why so many deaths?

Without documented causes of death, there is a lot of speculation to identify the reasons for the high rates of death among Nepali migrant workers

Dhanvantari by Buddha Basnyat, MD

B for Barley

A valuable crop that provides physical and spiritual sustenance

Dhanvantari by Buddha Basnyat, MD

Legionnaires’ Disease

LD is classically thought of as pneumonia that is contacted from water sources

Dhanvantari by Buddha Basnyat, MD

Superbugs

Emergence of superbugs is now a reality in South Asia

Dhanvantari by Buddha Basnyat, MD

The vaccine man

Maurice Hilleman, the man who swore like a sailor and discovered the MMR vaccine.

Dhanvantari by Buddha Basnyat, MD

Tragedy on Thorung La

What could the authorities have done better before, during and after the October 2014 blizzard?

Dhanvantari by Buddha Basnyat, MD

Three hundred metres to Everest

Can the last 300 metres of Mount Everest be scaled without supplemental oxygen?

Dhanvantari by Buddha Basnyat, MD

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