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Why crunchy food might help you lose weight
A new study has revealed a weight-loss trick that couldn’t be simpler: Turn down the volume in your environment (or your earbuds), and listen to yourself chew. Seriously, that’s it! (Photo: Getty Images) The findings of the study suggest that…
More vitamin C in your diet means lower risk of cataract
Including vitamin C rich fruits and vegetables in your diet can prevent your eyes from developing cataract, a new study in twins has found. Cataract is a common condition in which the lens of the eye becomes cloudy as a…
How Dogs Can Sniff Out Diabetes and Cancer
The black Labrador retriever recently detected a drop in blood sugar in 7-year-old Luke Nuttall, who has Type 1 diabetes. His glucose monitor didn’t pick it up, but Jedi did—and woke up Luke’s mother, Dorrie Nuttall, as he was trained.The…
Optimizing the treatment of rhegmatogenous retinal detachment
Surgeons may safely delay operating on rhegmatogenous retinal detachment (RRD) for a few days to accommodate their schedules, a new study suggested.The risk of macular detachment was only 0.7% when surgery was delayed up to 72 hours in a series…
16 Little Health Tips That Pay Off Big Time
As hosts of the Emmy award–winning show The Doctors and as medical professionals with 78 years of experience under our stethoscopes, we can tell you firsthand that you don’t need huge chunks of time to stay healthy. In fact, very…
Misinformed medicines are causing epidemic death worldwide
Medicine manufacturers are causing biased information to be given to doctors about the efficacy of drugs, causing an epidemic of misinformed practitioners that is “costing hundreds of thousands of lives” across the world, it has been claimed.
Alcohol in pregnancy causes neurological problems in kids
Mothers who consume alcohol during pregnancy put their children at the risk of impairment in kidney blood flow in adulthood and heightened neurological problems caused by a stroke, warns a study.In the study conducted on mice, the blood flow analysis…
Brain imaging to identify depression
According to the World Health Organization an estimated 350 million people of all ages suffer from depression. It’s a serious mental disorder that affects every aspect of a person’s life and in severe cases could lead to suicide. The study…
What is Asthma And COPD?
Defining a patient’s symptoms using the historical diagnostic labels of asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is an outdated approach to understanding an individual’s condition, according to experts writing in the European Respiratory Journal on Sunday.
Teenagers affected by chronic fatigue syndrome
Teenagers as young as 16 are experiencing chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS), say researchers, adding that it shows that the condition is much more common in them than previously thought.The team from the University of Bristol in Britain found that almost…
Estrogen protects women from flu
The study by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health suggest a protective advantage to the quintessential female hormone that naturally circulates in women’s bodies, as well as artificial forms given for hormone replacement therapy and estrogen-like…
Members of Parliament for NCD Forum Bangladesh formed
The prevalence of non–communicable diseases (NCDs) is surging globally. Yet, NCDs receive less than 3% of annual development assistance for health to low and middle income countries. It is therefore mandatory to establish political will and prioritizing NCDs in the…
5 facts about cervical cancer you should know!
Cervical cancer is the leading cause of cancer deaths among women in India, with approximately 1.32 lakh new cases of cervical cancer being diagnosed and about 74,000 deaths occurring annually, accounting for nearly one-third of cervical cancer deaths across the…
Trial of a new Painkiller Left a Person Brain Dead
The trial of a new painkiller has gone drastically wrong in France, leaving one person brain dead and five others in a serious condition.On Friday, one source apparently familiar with the situation initially said the drug was a cannabis-based drug.…
Patients suffering as DMCH interns go on work abstention
Hundreds of patient suffered a lot due to the work abstention enforced by the interns of Dhaka Medical College Hospital in the city. The interns organised the work abstention which begun around 12:pm and ended around 2:pm in protest of…
Your Neanderthal DNA may have given you allergies
In the American Journal of Human Genetics, two research teams reported that in many people, a group of genes that governs the first line of defense against pathogens was probably inherited from Neanderthals. By Deborah Netburn If you sneeze when…
Russian doctor’s punch kills patient
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…