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India's health ministry calls for halting sales of e-cigarettes

-- 2018-08-29 15:21:56

India’s federal health ministry called on Tuesday for stopping the sale or import of electronic cigarettes and heat-not-burn tobacco devices that companies like Philip Morris International Inc w...

Girl with rare gut disease vomits 30 times a day

-- 2018-08-28 18:21:43

A teenager with a rare gut condition that causes her to vomit up to 30 times a day has described the difficult choices she faces. Caitlin White, 19, from Perth, suffers from severe gastroparesis, rep...

Pollution 'harms cognitive intelligence'

-- 2018-08-28 14:25:19

Chronic exposure to air pollution can cause harm to cognitive performance, a new study in China reveals. Researchers believe that the negative impact increases with age, and affects men with less edu...

Milk consumption reduces childhood stunting in BD, says IFPRI study

FE Report 2018-08-27 10:17:04

Milk consumption in the crucial first 1,000 days of an infant's life reduces stunting by as much as 10.4 percentage points among children in Bangladesh, according to a study conducted by Internation...

‘Air pollution cuts 1.8yrs lifespan of Bangladeshis’

-- 2018-08-26 16:10:59

Ambient air pollution shortens an average Bangladeshi's life by 1.87 years, say scientists who suggest that better air quality could lead to a significant extension of human lifespan around the world....

'Occasional drinking also harmful to health'

-- 2018-08-24 16:36:22

A global study has found that consuming alcohol in moderation is not safe and occasional drinking is also harmful to health. The study suggests authorities should advise people to abstain completely...

Drug combo can reduce cancerous tumour size: Study

Xinhua 2018-08-24 14:19:37

A study published in the journal Chem showed that a combination of existing drugs could reduce the size of cancerous tumours much more effectively than current treatments. Researchers from the Univer...

Life expectancy declines seen in US and other high-income countries

-- 2018-08-24 13:46:33

Life expectancy is declining in high-income countries worldwide, driven in part by the effects of the opioid epidemic on younger adults in the US and the impact of a severe flu season on older adults...

Strawberries could help reduce inflammation, claims study

-- 2018-08-23 17:04:04

Daily consumption of strawberries could mitigate colonic inflammation, a US non-profit scientific organisation said Monday. The American Chemical Society (ACS), the world's largest non-profit scienti...

Disposal of animal wastes begins in city

-- 2018-08-22 19:56:25

Both Dhaka South and North City Corporations started disposing of the wastes of sacrificial animals at 2 pm Wednesday as per prior announcement to keep the city clean and check environment pollution,...

Congo approves more experimental Ebola treatments as cases rise

-- 2018-08-22 16:43:36

Democratic Republic of Congo has approved four more experimental treatments against the deadly Ebola virus, the health ministry said as it raced to contain an outbreak in its violence-torn east, accor...

Hotline 09611000999 for city’s waste management

-- 2018-08-21 19:55:06

The Dhaka south and north city corporations have jointly introduced hotline 09611000999 aimed at cleaning waste of sacrificial animals within 24 hours. The hotline is mainly introduced to ease public...

Fungal infections cure using soil bacteria

-- 2018-08-20 14:33:44

An Israeli study said on Sunday that fungal infections could be cured using bacteria found in the soil. The researchers tried using bacillus subtilis bacteria, which naturally secrete substances that...

Surgeons remove ‘lost’ contact lens from eyelid after 28 years

-- 2018-08-18 16:01:50

A woman has had a contact lens removed from her eyelid 28 years after it was thought to have fallen out. The discovery was made by doctors in Dundee after the patient, now aged 42, complained of swel...

NYU offers free tuition for all its medical students

-- 2018-08-17 14:46:44

The New York University School of Medicine will provide free tuition for all present and future students, the university announced. Citing the risk of "overwhelming" debt, it says every student will...

Drug may cut need for liver transplants: Study

-- 2018-08-16 14:04:22

A potential treatment for sudden liver failure could cut the need for transplants, say scientists at the University of Edinburgh. The liver has an incredible natural ability to repair itself, but t...

Seven die in cholera outbreak in Nigeria

-- 2018-08-15 14:05:55

Seven people were confirmed killed following an outbreak of cholera in some communities in Nigeria's capital Abuja, local health authorities said Monday. The outbreak has so affected six communities,...

Australians sue Bayer over birth control implant

-- 2018-08-14 16:42:21

Women in Australia will pursue a class action lawsuit over a sterilisation device that has allegedly caused medical problems for women worldwide. The lawsuit against German pharmaceutical giant Bayer...

E-cigarettes can damage vital immune system cells: Study

-- 2018-08-14 13:51:45

Vaping or e-cigarettes can damage vital immune system cells and may be more harmful than previously thought, a study suggests. Researchers found e-cigarette vapour disabled important immune cells in...

Uterus cancer kills 11,000 women annually in Bangladesh

-- 2018-08-12 14:57:38

Nearly 11,000 women die of uterus cancer annually in Bangladesh, while about fifty million females are at risk to be affected by the disease, a recent research said. The research conducted by a team...

Scientists use AI algorithm to reduce drug toxicity

-- 2018-08-12 13:24:46

American researchers are employing novel machine-learning techniques to improve the quality of life for patients by reducing toxic chemotherapy and radiotherapy dosing for glioblastoma, the most aggre...

Rajshahi hospital now runs on solar power

-- 2018-08-11 17:28:12

Solar power system has been launched in Rajshahi Chest Disease Hospital (RCDH) aiming at uninterrupted power supply in the hospital. In the preliminary stage, four of the 12 wards of the hospital wer...

Asia gets first microbiota transplantation, research centre

-- 2018-08-11 15:58:45

The Faculty of Medicine at the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) Thursday announced that it has established Asia's first and Hong Kong's only microbiota transplantation and research centre. The...

Brazil slams Venezuela as measles spreads across border

-- 2018-08-10 14:47:37

Brazil complained on Thursday that Venezuela was doing nothing to stop the spread of an outbreak of measles in Brazil and other neighbouring countries that has been sparked by an exodus of Venezuelans...

Health workers being vaccinated in Congo

-- 2018-08-09 15:07:44

Congolese officials and the World Health Organization began vaccinating health workers against the deadly Ebola virus on Wednesday, to try to halt an outbreak in Congo’s volatile east. Accordin...

500 more students to get access to medical colleges

-- 2018-08-08 18:30:52

The government has decided to increase the number of students by 500 to 3,818 for admission to state-run medical colleges from the 2018-19 session. The health ministry took the decision in a meeting...

UK reports slowdown of life expectancy

-- 2018-08-08 13:26:28

Increases in life expectancy in the UK have stalled and the slowdown is one of the biggest among 20 of the world's leading economies, ONS data shows. Rises in life expectancy dropped from 12.9 weeks...

Malaysia reports H5N1 bird flu outbreak

-- 2018-08-06 17:07:11

Malaysia has reported an outbreak of the highly contagious H5N1 bird flu virus on a farm in the eastern region of Sabah, the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) said on Monday, citing a report...

African swine fever outbreak alarms Romania

-- 2018-08-05 15:32:53

The African swine fever has had an aggressive, explosive development recently in Romania, with the number of outbreaks reaching 524, a senior official with the National Sanitary Veterinary and Food Sa...

Diet beverages lower colon cancer recurrence: Study

-- 2018-08-04 18:26:50

Colon cancer patients who drink one or more servings of artificially-sweetened beverages a day have roughly half the risk of their cancer recurring compared to those who drink few or none of these bev...