Are you running high fever and not feeling like going to office? Well, this fever may not be any illness but just psychogenic fever.Psychogenic fever is a stress-related psychosomatic condition that manifests itself in a high body temperature. It is…
Two-thirds of the world’s population under 50 have the highly infectious herpes virus that causes cold sores around the mouth, the World Health Organisation said on Wednesday, in its first estimate of global prevalence of the disease.More than 3.7 billion…
The home of Parma ham, trumpeting the benefits of a traditional Mediterranean diet, is urging consumers not to get into a prosciutto panic after a warning that processed meat can cause cancer.Italian food and farming groups responded indignantly to the…
London (Sangeeta Shashikant) – The United States’ offer to least developed countries of a 10-year transition period to grant pharmaceutical patents is “unconscionable and indefensible”, according to six influential US non-governmental organisations (NGOs). In a letter dated 19 October to…
Interesting new data on prices countries are paying on Hep C drugs was published yesterday in Lancet Global Health. The study shows strikingly, that some middle-income countries pay as much, if not more, than wealthy countries for hep C direct-acting…
The mosquito-borne parasite that causes malaria also produces a protein that could help stop cancer, new research has found.The researchers found that the malarial protein binds to a sugar molecule found in many types of cancer. The sugar molecule —…
The case of Pauline Cafferkey, the first person known to have recovered from Ebola and then suffer an apparently life-threatening relapse, is taking scientists into uncharted territory.The Scottish nurse’s critically ill situation, described as “staggering” by one British virologist, signals…
Chittagong – A mobile court of Chittagong district administration on Saturday seized huge quantities of government supplied medicines, contraband Indian medicines and physicians’ samples from 10 pharmacies from city’s Bakalia area and fined five pharmacies Tk. 82 thousand.
Air pollution in cities is emerging as the major reason behind the rise in eye allergies and conjunctivitis in people of all ages, doctors say.They say that the problem was serious, because if conjunctivitis and allergies are not treated in…
You must have heard and read that sleep helps strengthen and consolidate memories. Now, researchers show how it works. Sleep after learning encourages the growth of dendritic spines – the tiny protrusions from brain cells that connect to other brain…
US Department of Defence to make “condolence payments” to families of victims of US air strike on Afghan hospital. The Pentagon is to make “condolence payments” to families of victims of a US air strike that mistakenly hit a Doctors…
Bangladesh One-Day International (ODI) skipper Mashrafe bin Mortaza was on Friday hospitalised after being diagnosed with dengue fever. Dhaka: Bangladesh One-Day International (ODI) skipper Mashrafe bin Mortaza was on Friday hospitalised after being diagnosed with dengue fever.
By Sydney Lupkin This story is part of a partnership between MedPage Today and VICE News. Worldwide outrage has followed the recent dizzying increase in the price of Daraprim, a drug that treats potentially fatal parasitic infections, by its new…
The Doctors Association of Bangladesh (BMA), a platform of pro-BNP physicians, yesterday termed the newly announced 8th national pay scale as unacceptable. “The interests of physicians and people working in the health sector have been undermined because of the disparity…
A mobile court here on Saturday fined six pharmacies Tk 1.05 lakh for selling cow-fattening tablets, Viagra and food supplements in the city.
New Delhi: The World Health Organization has called for more research on ways to battle malaria caused by the Plasmodium vivax parasite, in the wake of a surge of infections in Western India. According to the WHO, the parasite is…
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved a libido-enhancing drug for women that has been dubbed “Female Viagra”. Flibanserin, a drug produced by Sprout Pharmaceuticals, recently passed an FDA advisory committee meeting. The pill is designed to assist…
A Dhaka court on Monday awarded ten years’ imprisonment to every six top officials of BCI (Bangladesh) Limited for manufacturing spurious drug that took lives of at least 76 children in 1990s. Judge M Atowar Rahman of Dhaka Judge Court…
BNP standing committee member Gayeshwar Chandra Roy has been admitted to Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University (BSMMU) as he is suffering from various diseases. “He (Gayeshwar) has been suffering from various health problems, including heart and liver complications, diabetes, and…
The newborn, who was shot inside the womb of its mother allegedly by Jubo League men in Magura, was shifted to the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH) on Thursday. The baby boy was taken to…
Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH) authorities have formed an eight-member medical team for the proper treatment of the newborn who was shot inside the womb of its mother allegedly by Jubo League men in Magura. Dr Ashraful Haque Kajal, head…
Ian Randall Editing the DNA of human blood cells has the potential to significantly reduce the impact of hereditary blood diseases such as sickle cell anaemia and thalassaemia, according to researchers from Australia and the United States. In their study,…
Imogen Mathers In a continent of 54 countries, there is no one-size-fits-all solution for development, but the value of science and technology transcends national differences, says Ameenah Gurib-Fakim, the new president of Mauritius, in this audio interview. “We know that…
Yerevan – Thousands of patients with advanced cancer in Armenia suffer from avoidable, severe pain every year because they cannot get adequate pain medications, Human Rights Watch said in a report and video released today. While effective, safe, and inexpensive…
Firdausi Qadri of the worldwide Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research in Dhaka, Bangladesh, said the trial results, published in The Lancet journal, show how a routine oral cholera vaccination programme “could substantially reduce the burden of disease and greatly contribute…
Danielle Nierenberg The routine use of antibiotics on livestock leads to the emergence of antibiotic resistant bacteria that can impact humans. According to the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), in 2010, almost 52 percent of chicken breasts tested were contaminated…
An icddr,b study, which is one of the first analyses of the range of immune responses following typhoid fever in children under-five, has found that young children display the same clinical illness as adults—such as duration of fever and temperature—as…
The Government of Bangladesh is sending humanitarian assistance including medical teams and medicine to Nepal in the wake of the devastation caused in Nepal by a major earthquake today.
By Arijeta Lajka Researchers have been studying the medical benefits of marijuana for years, but this month marks the first time the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), a research group funded by the US government, has acknowledged that cannabis…
Sylhet City Corporation (SCC) mayor Ariful Haque Chowdhury, now in jail, was admitted to Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH) on Saturday noon as he fell ill. Family sources said Ariful was taken to the Coronary Care Unit (CCU) of DMCH…