CCTV footage has emerged of a Russian hospital doctor punching a patient who collapsed and later died.The incident took place in the city of Belgorod, 670km (440 miles) south of the capital, Moscow, on 29 December.The patient had earlier kicked…
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Type 2 diabetes risks dementia
People with type 2 diabetes are at higher risk for dementia in general. And for one form, called vascular dementia, diabetes brings more risk to women than men, according to a new review.The most common cause of dementia is Alzheimer’s…
Climate change increasing vector-borne diseases
Dhaka – Bangladesh’s parisite experts have said that the frequency of vector-borne parasitic diseases is increasing in human and animals as weather has effects on vector population dynamics and disease transmission. They also said that high temperature and humidity favours…
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Ovarian cancer: Screening may cut deaths
Doctors say there is now “encouraging” evidence that an annual blood test may cut ovarian cancer deaths by a fifthOvarian tumours are often deadly as they are caught too late.A 14-year study on 200,000 women, published in the Lancet, has…
Cancer rates up in lower-income states
While incidence and mortality rates from several common types of cancer in many high-income countries have gone down, many low-and middle-income countries have seen cancer rates rise, partially due to increases in risk factors that are typical of Western countries,…
TB control faces fund problem in BD
Bangladesh’s tuberculosis control programme is facing new challenges with the shrinking of global funds to fight this infectious disease and rapid urbanisation, experts say.International reviewers have advised Bangladesh to reduce donor dependency for the tuberculosis control programme as global funding…
Prostate cancer therapy may increase Alzheimer
Men taking a treatment for prostate cancer known as androgen deprivation therapy may be almost twice as likely to develop Alzheimer’s disease than men not taking ADT, a study has found.While the research in the December 7 issue of the…
LabAid Hospital fined Tk 10 lakh for keeping unauthorised drugs
A mobile court has slapped LabAid Hospital in Dhaka with a Tk 10 lakh fine for keeping “low-quality”, unauthorised medicines. The drugs were found during a raid by the Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) police unit on the hospital in Dhanmondi…
Do financial contributions from ‘pharma’ violate WHO guidelines?
Geneva (K M Gopakumar) – Millions of dollars given by major pharmaceutical companies to the World Health Organization (WHO) raise questions of compliance with the organization’s guidelines on interactions with commercial enterprises. Currently, WHO’s relations with commercial enterprises are guided…
Genes for longer, healthier life identified
After combing through 40,000 potential genes in three animal species, researchers have zeroed in on 30 genes which, if tweaked a bit, can get you eternal youth – without having to search for and drink that elusive elixir of life.One…
Mother-to-child AIDS transmission dealt a blow in zimbabwe
By Jeffrey Moyo Shurugwi, Zimbabwe (IPS) – With the battle to combat HIV/AIDS intensifying in Zimbabwe, the Prevention of Mother to Child Transmission initiative (PMTCT) has increasingly become a success weapon in the war on transmission of the once dreaded…
Sugar-free drinks also bad for teeth
If you have switched to sugar-free drinks to avoid tooth decay, don’t be rest assured that you have got rid of the problem. Even sugar-free drinks and foods may kick-off tooth decay, dentists have warned.The researchers from University of Melbourne…
No AIDS by 2030
‘Ending AIDS by 2030’ is ‘possible’ for Bangladesh, UNAIDS Country Director Leo Kenny has said.And for that, on the eve of the World AIDS Day, he suggested that HIV programmes stress on four key elements – focus, scaling up, innovation…
Americans are still being imprisoned for being HIV positive
By Sydney Lupkin This World AIDS Day, VICE is exploring the state of HIV around the globe. Watch our special report, “Countdown to Zero,” tonight on HBO at 9pm ET, and to get involved visit red.org and shop (RED). There…
HIV infection has been reduced globally: Speaker
STAFF REPORTER Speakers at a press conference yesterday cautioned though HIV infection has been reduced globally, including in Bangladesh, the country has certain groups who are vulnerable to HIV infection and there is a chance of spreading it through them.
Marijuana ‘shatter’ is dangerous, others say it really gets you high
Police in Illinois are warning the public about an extremely potent drug that is gaining popularity in the state, saying it can “cause users to disconnect from reality” and might even lead to “hallucinations and other types of psychosis.” The…
Hot pursuit of ‘messenger’ drug molecules
A molecule that carries the recipe for making drugs inside body cells is exciting scientists and investors alike, attracting hundreds of millions of dollars in a scramble for the next promising area of biotechnology.German and US firms are leading the…
Stress can make feel feverish.
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…
Exoskeleton research can help paralysed
Swiss sensory motor scientists are hoping to inspire a new generation of more flexible, less constraining, powered exoskeletons that improve the lives of the severely disabled and paralysed.Metal exoskeleton suits worn outside the body, delivering energy for limb movement, are…
Bacon fans embrace cancer
Standing at the meat counter at a Mariano’s grocery store in Chicago, a half-dozen customers bantered with the butchers about the recent World Health Organisation report linking processed meat to colorectal cancer.”Give me two pounds of bacon,” said Roland Marks,…
Breast cancer management inefficient in Bangladesh: US specialist
It’s not lack of awareness or new technologies or tests, a former US cancer specialist says, but affordability, access, and quality of care are the challenges that women face in Bangladesh when they suffer from breast cancer.“Quality of care is…
Two-third of world population have herpes: WHO
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…
No prosciutto panic, please
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…
10-year US offer for pharma patent waiver ‘Unconscionable, indefensible’
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…
WHO meet negotiates text on engagement with non-State actors
Geneva (K M Gopakumar) – An informal meeting of World Health Organization Member States to negotiate the Framework of Engagement with Non-state Actors (FENSA) text begins on Monday 19 October The 3-day meeting is being held at the WHO Headquarters…
Some countries pay more for HepC drugs than rich countries
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…
Malaria protein could help treat cancer
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 —…
UK Ebola case puzzles scientists
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…
60% kidney diseases can be prevented by raising awareness
STAFF REPORTER Speakers at a seminar yesterday said that where both the government and the private sector organizations cannot treat only five percent of kidney patients, it is possible to prevent at least 60 percent kidney diseases only by raising…