By Kayla Ruble An army of bacteria-infected mosquitoes will be deployed across two major cities in Colombia and Brazil in early 2017, in the latest attempt to fight Zika and other mosquito-borne diseases, the Australia-based Eliminate Dengue program announced Wednesday.…
Stroke is a life-threatening medical emergency that affects the brain. Aneurysm may be confused with stroke because an aneurysm in the brain can lead to a stroke. Both conditions are the result of diseased blood vessel walls. Some risk factors…
Dhaka – It seems like simple, obvious advice: eat your vegetables, get some exercise, and – of course – take your vitamins. Or not. Decades of research has failed to find any substantial evidence that vitamins and supplements do any…
Malnutrition costs Bangladesh more than US$ one billion in lost productivity annually and emphasis should be laid on ending hunger and improving nutrition for sustainability of the country’s current economic development, a study said here today.”Under-nutrition already costs Bangladesh more…
Doctors have long warned women that getting pregnant later in life can raise the risk of stroke, but a study Monday suggested that actually, only young women face this increasing risk. The findings in the Journal of the American Medical…
Diego Arguedas OrtizDiego Arguedas Ortiz Eight communities in remote towns of Costa Rica are set to receive drugs via pilotless aerial vehicles (drones) starting from 2017, thanks to a new programme implemented by the government’s public health authority. The programme…
Household dysfunction or any adverse event in childhood may have a short-term affect on a child’s health and weight in early days as well, finds a study. The study suggested that children exposed to early adversity also have increased risk…
If you are in a high-stress job with little or no control over the work flow, chances are you are heading towards innumerable health conditions—even an early death—than those who have flexibility and discretion in their jobs. A team of…
Health organisations call on trade ministers to reject provisions that would negatively affect access to generic medicines in the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership agreement. They made the call in An open letter to the sixteen governments negotiating the Regional Comprehensive…
Shunning popular beliefs that people smoke cigarettes because they’re addicted to the nicotine, a recent study shows that among teens who are frequent smokers, 46% of girls and 30%of boys smoke to control their weight. And smoking to lose weight…
Dhaka – Global Handwashing Day-2016 will be observed today in Bangladesh as elsewhere in the globe. The day marks the campaign to motivate and mobilize people around the world to improve their handwashing habits by washing their hands with soap…
New York — Forty medical experts at a New York hospital Friday successfully separated conjoined twins attached at the head after a 20-hour procedure. Officials at Brooklyn’s Montefiore Medical Center said the 13-month-old boys, Jadon and Anias McDonald, were recovering…
Shaila Mahmud The year 2016 may become a milestone in the history for safeguarding the interest of the earth and its people as the two most important UN conferences – COP22 (United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change) and COP7…
ZMapp, once touted as a miraculous “secret serum” against the deadly Ebola virus, has shown some success but fell short of the bar for effectiveness in a clinical trial, researchers said Wednesday. Still, experts pointed out that ZMapp helped more…
New York (AP/UNB) — Janet Jackson has confirmed she’s pregnant at 50. The star showed off her baby bump in a photo Wednesday, smiling in a white dress and cradling her belly.
Bangkok (BSS/AFP) – Well-wishers kept up their vigil outside a Bangkok hospital on Thursday, offering prayers for ailing King Bhumibol Adulyadej as deeply polarised Thailand faces the prospect of losing its figure of unity. Bhumibol, 88, is the world’s longest…
A recent research has shown that children, whose mothers take Vitamin D during pregnancy (with resultant high levels of the vitamin in the umbilical blood) have fewer symptoms of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) till the age of two and…
Dhaka – The condition of Sylhet Government Women’s College student Khadiza has remained stable at the intensive care unit of the Squire Hospital in the city, according to hospital sources.
It Manipulates Emotional, Physiological State To Make Us Less Stressed And More Productive. Take a long, slow breath. Really, it’ll help. The idea that breathing exercises can somehow calm you down is an ancient one -yoga isn’t a recent development,…
A recent study conducted at King’s College London has found that people with acneinfection on their faces tend to have younger-looking skin as they grow older. Comparing genetic information from women with and without acne, the study found that acne-prone…
Dhaka – An infant, who was declared dead at a private hospital in Chittagong, is recovering at another hospital, its parents say. The parents, both of whom are doctors themselves, have accused the doctors and staff at the Neonatal Intensive…
Melbourne – While combination antiretroviral therapy has meant that people with HIV can live longer lives, research shows that the virus makes fundamental changes to the immune system by increasing the risk of developing age-related conditions.
Neena Bhandari Sydney – With polio now occurring in just two countries — Afghanistan and Pakistan — investments in medical aid and healthcare are now deemed urgent for polio survivors as they battle the onset of the post-polio syndrome (PPS)…
Japanese scientist Yoshinori Ohsumi was awarded this year’s Nobel Prize in medicine on Monday for discoveries related to the degrading and recycling of cellular components.The Karolinska Institute honored Ohsumi for “brilliant experiments” in the 1990s on autophagy, the “self-eating” process…
GreenWatch News Desk A expatriate Bangladesh community leader in New York has written to the City Council there about the plight of a Bangladeshi American who has been subjected to racist treatment by a black nurse of a hospital, and…
On October 1, International Coffee Day, we round up some of the ways coffee can boost health, giving you a good reason to say yes to another cup of joe. Coffee can help lower the risk of diabetes. A 2014…
People who advise you to take care of your teeth do not do it for nothing. According to a new study, people with more than eight dental fillings are at an increased risk of brain, heart and kidney damage, because…
Dhaka – A two-day Bangladesh-India Joint Ophthalmology Conference began in the capital on Friday. Information Minister Hasanul Haq Inu inaugurated the conference at International Convention City Bashundhara in the capital in the evening.
The city’s dire humanitarian crisis has been compounded by government shelling in the rebel-held east. On top of the hospital attack, Human Rights Watch has accused President Assad of using banned chemical weapons.Government bombardment of the Syrian city of Aleppo…
By Martin Khor World leaders at the Summit of the UN General Assembly last week spoke on the need to save millions of lives by controlling the crisis of antibiotic resistance and adopted a landmark political declaration calling for global…