Gallbladder cancer (GBC) is an uncommon disease with one of the highest incidences in India, south Pakistan and Chile. The incidence Nepal also high given proximity to India. This study aims highlight burden gall bladder shed some light on its risk factors. females high. Lower socioeconomic status, illiteracy, prevalence obesity, smoking, H. pylori could be driving factors Nepal.

In Nepal, India, Bangladesh and Pakistan, policy focused on improving access to maternity services has led to measures to reduce cost barriers impeding women's access to care. Specifically, these include cash transfer or voucher schemes designed to stimulate demand for services, including antenatal, delivery and post-partum care. In spite of their popularity, however, little is known about the ...

Polygonatum (King Solomon's-seal, Solomon's Seal) is a member of family Liliaceae or Convallariaceae consist of approximately 60 species. The various species of the genus are widely distributed in the temperate regions of the East Asia. Specifically in China and Japan, approximately 40 different species of Polygonatum have been reported [1-2]. Additionally it is also found in India, Korea, Nepa...

INTRODUCTION Each SAARC nation falls in the zone of high incidence of pneumococcal disease but there is a paucity of literature estimating the burden of pneumococcal disease in this region. OBJECTIVE To identify the prevalent serotypes causing invasive pneumococcal disease in children of SAARC countries, to determine the coverage of these serotypes by the available vaccines, and to determine ...

Pandey and others reported the first case of visceral leishmaniasis (VL) in the Far Western Hills region of Nepal. 1 At our hospital in the Achham district, which neighbors the Doti district described in the Pandey and others report, we recently had a case of VL in a 17-year-old woman who presented with advanced disease. We transferred her to a hospital in Kathmandu where she received amphoteri...

Samples of two Ageratum conyzoides, one Sonchus oleraceus and one turnip (Brassica rapa var. rapa) exhibiting virus-like symptoms were collected from Pakistan and Nepal. Full-length begomovirus clones were obtained from the four plant samples and betasatellite clones from three of these. The begomovirus sequences were shown to be isolates of Ageratum enation virus (AEV) with greater than 89.1% ...

South Asia is a unique geopolitical region which covers 3.4% of the world’s surface area and supports 25% of the world’s population (1.749 billion). It hosts the second (India), sixth (Pakistan) and the eighth (Bangladesh) most populous countries in the world. The South Asia Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) was established in 1985 and currently has eight Member States. SAARC account...

Genetic diversity in 403 morphologically distinct landraces of barley (Hordeum vulgare L. subsp. vulgare) originating from seven geographical zones of Asia was studied using simple sequence repeat (SSR) markers from regions of medium to high recombination in the barley genome. The seven polymorphic SSR markers representing each of the chromosomes chosen for the study revealed a high level of al...

This is the first comprehensive study to investigate dynamics of international information spillovers, regional linkages and fundamental forces driving return volatility in SAARC (South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation) member nation equity markets. We propose a multi-factor model nested within generalized autoregressive conditional heteroskedasticity framework enlist market data. Whi...

BACKGROUND Indigenous biocultural knowledge is a vital part of Nepalese environmental management strategies; however, much of it may soon be lost given Nepal's rapidly changing socio-ecological climate. This is particularly true for knowledge surrounding parasitic and mycoheterotrophic plant species, which are well represented throughout the Central-Eastern Himalayas but lack a collated record....