Insulin Frederick Grant Banting and Professor John James Rickard MacLeod shared a Nobel Prize in 1923 for isolation and clinical use of insulin against diabetes…
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Make your patients comfortable during their stay
A visit to a doctor’s office, clinic or a hospital can be quite stressful for a patient. After all, most people visit such places because…
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Experiements That Are Working On Our Medical Future
Every day scientists and doctors work together to find ways to make our lives better. Nowhere is this more apparent than in the medical field.…
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Health system in Nepal
According to WHO, a health system consists of all the organizations, institutions, resources and people whose primary purpose is to improve health. Health system in…
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Medical Negligence
Medical negligence is a ‘breach’ of the standard of care of a medical practitioner in the treatment of a patient, either by omission (failing to…
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Prepare for it All : Survival after a Disaster
It’s not uncommon for people to subconsciously think they are immune to emergency or disaster scenarios. Turn on the news for just one moment and you’ll…
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“Epilepsy is one of the most often misdiagnosed, mistreated, or under-treated conditions affecting seniors,” – James Firman Of the several disorders of the central nervous…
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Jan De Purkyne and his eponym “Purkinje fibers”
About Jan De Purkyne Also written Johannes Evangelist Purkinje (17/12/1787 to 28/7/1869) was a Czech anatomist and physiologist. In 1837, he discovered Purkinje cells, large…
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Calendar of World Health Awareness Observances
After hours of internet surfing, I have gathered and compiled a list of Health Awareness Observances (Days, Weeks and Months). While different regions and nations are having…
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