Nepal Visit

Just returned from almost two weeks in Nepal.  I was combining a visit to a University Hospital in eastern Nepal, checking on the progress of my two reserach projects on Cardiovascualr Disease Monitoring and Iodine Deficiency Assessment with collecting urine samples in the high mountains of the Annapurna Region.  All went well with 55 urine and salt samples collected over three and a half days.  The results will tell is if there is a major iodine deficiency in the mountainous and inaccessible regions.