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 […]
RUSL Researchers mapped the first complete genome of Leptospira from Sri Lanka
For the first time in scientific literature, researchers from the Leptospirosis Research laboratory of DoCM were able to map the complete genome of three Leptospira isolates from Sri Lanka. The fully circularized genome of three Leptospira strains: FMAS_KW1, FMAS_KW2 and […]
Social distancing; one meter (3 feels) may not be safe..!
With Sri Lankan changing the control strategies and allowing a certain degree of community movement and more controlled actions are compulsory. Despite more than 3000 scientific articles published on covid-19 from January to April 2020, all evidence still suggests that […]
Rajarata University helps to expand national diagnostic capacity of COVID-19
With the increasing demand for COVID-19 testing in Sri Lanka, Anuradhapura COVID-19 centre capacity has been increased with the DoCM rt-PCR equipment. The public health research laboratory of DoCM was equipped with a Biorad CFX96 real-time PCR system with 5-channel […]