The SLMA is the oldest professional medical association in Asia and Australasia, with a proud history that dates back to 1887. The 133rd Anniversary International Medical Congress of the Sri Lanka Medical Association was held on 24th-26th July as a virtual […]
GEEPMD Health Promotion e-book is launched
The health promotion e-book for pregnant mothers prepared as a part of GEEPPMD project is now available for download. This e-book is a main outcome of the GEEPMD project. Essential health messages from the first month to ninth month are […]
මගේ පුතාට කිරි ගඟුලයි ..!
ලෝක මව්කිරි දීමේ සතිය අගෝස්තු මස 1-7 දින වලට යෙදී තිබේ.රජරට වෛද්ය ප්රජා වෛද්ය දෙපාර්තමේන්තුව මගින් ප්රකාශිත “දස මසක සිහිනයට” ග්රන්ථයේ මව්කිරි පිළබඳව වූ කොටස මෙම සතියේ ඔබගේ දැනගැනීම පිණිස බෙදා ගනිමු.
Weight-for-height among children: Sri Lanka is among the seven worst performing countries
Despite having well praised public health system, maternal and child health statistics, one of the best performing immunization programme and satisfactory hygienic practices, under 5 nutritional status in Sri Lanka is among the worst according to the world Bank Data. […]
කොරෝනා වසංගතය (COVID-19) සමයේ ගර්භණී ඔබ දැනගත යුතුම දේවල්..
මේ උපදෙස් මාලාව දැනට මෙම වසංගතය හා පවතින නවතම දැනුම සහ ශ්රී ලංකා සෞඛ්ය අමාත්යංශය ප්රකාශිත උපදෙස් මාලාව අනුව සකසා ඇත. ඉදිරියේදී පවතින තත්ව අනුව වසංගත රෝග විද්යා අංශය මගින් ප්රකාශනය කරන උපදෙස් අනුව ඔබගේ සෞඛ්ය වෛද්ය නිලධාරීතුමන් මේ උපදෙස් […]
Assessing food security during natural disasters. RUSL researchers validate a new tool.
Food is a basic need of humans. In disaster management and mitigation, food security assessment provides most basic information on resource allocations. Public health emergency response teams needs culturally adapted tools in disaster response. While struggling to improve the nutritional […]
Rajarata University Researchers make History with Leptospira Reference Genome
The National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) Genome database (part of the United States National Library of Medicine [NLM], a branch of the National Institutes of Health [NIH])has listed the Leptospira interrogates strain FMAS_AW1, the first complete, circularized genome of […]
නැවත හිස ඔසවන මී උණ ..
නැවත හිස ඔසවන මි උණ පසුගිය දින කිහිපය තුල මි උණ රෝගය ලංකාවේ පළාත් කිහිපයකම දරුණු ලෙස හිස ඔසවන බව පෙනේ. කොරෝනා වසංගතය හමුවේ ඇතිවූ තත්වය මත මි උණ රෝගය නිසා ඇතිවන බරපතල තත්ත්ව සහ මරණ ප්රමාණය වැඩි වීමේ ඉතාතදබල […]
Being Happy in Difficult Times..
Staying at home or away from loved ones and getting used to a completely new daily routine is not easy. Most of us will have some difficulties during this period. Even though you are safe from covid-19, you may feel […]
New evidence on breastfeeding and immunity against viral infections
A new study published in Nature further strengthen the evidence of the role of breast milk against viral infections during the neonatal period. Read the original article in Nature Human gut is devoid of viruses at birth. Viral colonization in […]