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During the two-day review of health sector programs held on 17th and 18th December by the Ministry of Health and Population and various development partners, Nepal's progress against the National Health Sector Strategy (NHSS) targets and the annual work plan for the fiscal year 2074 / 75 were addressed.
The National Health Sector Strategy focused on universal health coverage with four strategic directions, namely, equitable access, quality, and multisectoral approach and health sector reform. Efforts have been directed in all these directions with much progress, but the review-as any review should-cautions practitioners to be careful lest the gains made so far could regress.
Scientists at Stanford University have designed an electrocatalytic mechanism that works like a mammalian lung to convert water into fuel. Their research, published in the journal Joule, could help existing clean energy technologies run more efficiently.
No one knows how many Rohingya became pregnant as a result of rape by the Myanmar military. No one knows how many babies were born to survivors of sexual violence living among the 750,000 Rohingya in camps in Bangladesh.
More than 700 million adults and children worldwide are obese, according to 2017 study that called the rising number and weight-related health problems a "rising pandemic."
The government is mulling over enforcing a stringent executive order to control production, sale and distribution of alcohol, assuming liquor consumption is giving rise to cases of domestic violence and crime such as rape, besides health-related problems.
In the perhaps not distant future, surgeons could perform a range of medical procedures without touching the patient, thanks to advancements in 'acoustic tweezers'.
The situation of maternal health in the country has improved over the years. The maternal mortality rate (MMR) has decreased to 89 in 2017 from 380 per 100,000 live births in 1994. This is according to a study on the situation of maternal health in Bhutan, published in the recent Bhutan Health Journal .
Children born prematurely often develop neuromotor and cognitive developmental disabilities. The best way to reduce the impacts of those disabilities is to catch them early through a series of cognitive and motor tests. But accurately measuring and recording the motor functions of small children is tricky. As any parent will tell you, toddlers tend to dislike wearing bulky devices on their hands and have a predilection for ingesting things they shouldn't.
To strengthen health, security and environment protection of people from nuclear and radioactive materials, the government today registered a bill on Safe and Peaceful use of Nuclear and Radioactive Materials at the Parliament Secretariat.
Move over Mona Lisa, here you eat tic-tac-toe . It was just about a year ago that Caltech scientists in the laboratory of Lulu Qian, assistant professor of bioengineering, announced they had used a technique known as DNA origami to create tiles that could be designed to self-assemble into larger nanostructures that carry predesigned patterns . They chose to make the world's smallest version of the iconic Mona Lisa.
A statistic unveiled by World Health Organization (WHO) has estimated that around 3,000 people in Nepal die due to stroke annually.
Researchers at the University of Sussex have created the fastest and most energy efficient simulation of a mouse brain using off-the-shelf computer hardware . Dr James Knight and Prof Thomas Nowotny from the University of Sussex's School of Engineering and Informatics have published the top 50 supercomputers by running brain simulations using their own GeNN software and Graphics Processing Units (GPUs).
