Mahabub Alam: Patients continue to lose their lives due to ‘wrong treatment’ across the country, shattering people’s confidence in physicians. Families of the victims are running after the a... Read more
Earlier this year, researchers raised eyebrows when Australia’s traditionally conservative medicines regulator approved the use of psychedelics to assist therapy sessions, reports BBC.... Read more
BSS: The World Health Organization’s European office on Tuesday warned the risk of Covid-19 has not gone away, saying it was still responsible for nearly 1,000 deaths a week in the reg... Read more
Health Desk: At least 30 lakh people should be brought under primary health care services of hypertension and diabetes treatment by 2025 in a bid to prevent the Non Communicable Diseases (NC... Read more
UNB: Bangladesh got the recognition as the spotless thyroid operation completing country at the 5th International Thyroid Notes (Natural Orpheus Thyroid Endoscopic Surgery) conference on Fri... Read more
Mohammad Al Amin: The heat wave sweeping across the country has resulted in health issues, affecting children, the elderly, and people with pre-existing conditions. An alarming surge in pati... Read more
UNB:The Drug List Update Committee for Community Clinics has decided to include hypertension and diabetes medicines in community clinics to ensure primary health care at the door steps of co... Read more
Mohammad Al Amin, Bangladesh: The hypertension prevalence has been increasing gradually in the country, causing death for a good number of people every year. The number of the people sufferi... Read more
Two Thalassemia carriers should not start a family to prevent the spread of this fatal disease, said physicians yesterday at an event. Given that the treatment of this disease is expensive a... Read more
Mohammad Al Amin: The excessive consumption of salt (sodium chloride) with regular and processed foods is affecting health of the people in the country, causing heart and kidney diseases. Ac... Read more
UNB: The World Health Organization (WHO) has released a new guideline on non-sugar sweeteners (NSS), which recommends against the use of NSS to control body weight or reduce the risk of nonc... Read more
AFP: All women should get mammogram screening for breast cancer starting from age 40, rather than 50, an influential US health body announced Tuesday, a move it said could save thousands of... Read more
AFP: There is little evidence that most antidepressants are effective against chronic pain, the largest study conducted on the subject said on Wednesday. However, the British researchers who... Read more
AFP: Health professionals must warn the world about the dangers of artificial intelligence (AI), a group of academics wrote on Wednesday, as clamours grow for work on the technology to be ha... Read more
UNB: The World Health Organisation (WHO) on Wednesday issued a new strategic plan for COVID-19 focusing on the transition from emergency response to long-term COVID-19 disease management. Th... Read more
Relics of ancient viruses – that have spent millions of years hiding inside human DNA – help the body fight cancer, say scientists. The study by the Francis Crick Institute showe... Read more
BSS: Experts at an advocacy meeting today stressed on ensuring 100 percent service delivery to identify obstetric fistula patients and institutional delivery of mothers to end fistula from t... Read more
A new, single-dose, oral treatment for sleeping sickness is as effective as current treatments and could be a key factor in eliminating disease transmission by 2030, suggests a new study pub... Read more
BBC: The first drug to slow the destruction of the brain in Alzheimer’s has been heralded as momentous and historic. The research breakthrough ends decades of failure and shows a new e... Read more
While winters do not cause arthritis, the cold weather is known to worsen aches and pains associated with the autoimmune disease. Experts say there are variety of factors that make winter se... Read more
