Winter weddings and migrant workers returning home for the festivals help drive the annual rise in deliveries, say doctors.

More than half of drinking water samples from public schools and offices in three Lalitpur local units tested positive for faecal coliform and E coli.

Anti-snake venom is running out during peak snakebite season, while shortages of iron and folic acid, as well as anti-rabies and JE vaccines, are putting vulnerable patients at risk.

Six deaths were reported in Koshi province, two in Madhesh and one in Lumbini in less than a month.

Additional doctors and nurses, better neonatal care, and wider use of mothers’ milk helped reduce deaths from eight to 2.5 per 1,000 live births.

A new study warns that the halt could lead to delayed diagnoses, treatment interruptions and preventable deaths.

As many as 53 people have died, and 716 others have been injured from venomous snakebites since May 14.

New study says Nepal reduced adolescent pregnancy and childbirth by 35 percent over the past two decades and outpaced many low- and lower middle income countries, including India.

Since demand is excessively high and collection low, Human milk bank has been prioritising the infants with low weights and those critically ill for service.

Decades of government failure to expand the health workforce have left doctors overworked, patients underserved, and assaults on health workers on the rise.

Hundreds of thousands of ailing people suffered due to a nationwide strike of doctors protesting against physical assaults on them. Emergency wards were overwhelmed.

The Nepal Medical Association says aggression against doctors has increased, with more than 90 cases of physical and verbal abuse registered over the past 10 months.

Hospital chief says the previous funding limit forced many poor families to take their children home without treatment, so they revised the ceiling.

Resumption of health insurance services at the two centres brings relief to thousands of patients nationwide.

While the HPV vaccine included in the routine immunisation list targets types 16 and 18, recent screening shows infections with multiple HPV types, including those not covered by the vaccine.