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Rohingya crisis: US aid crosses $90 million

Rohingya crisis: US aid crosses $90 million

FE Report 2017-12-11 03:44:56

The US Agency for International Development (USAID) awarded US$7.5 million to the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) under the Food for Peace Act on Wednesday to improve the nutritional sta...

Undetected asthma among top footballers

Undetected asthma among top footballers

BBC 2017-12-10 12:00:00

Professional footballers should be screened for exercise-induced asthma, researchers say, after a study found three in 10 could be affected. University of Kent scientists used lung tests to identify...

Fight against cancer by living right: Study

Fight against cancer by living right: Study

-- 2017-12-10 05:58:41

Around 1.45 million people in India are diagnosed with cancers each year, with the leading sites being breast and cervix in women and lung and mouth cavity in men. By 2020, cancer cases are projected...

Researchers identify brain networks helping babies learn to walk

Researchers identify brain networks helping babies learn to walk

-- 2017-12-10 04:58:01

Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St Louis have identified brain networks involved in a baby's learning to walk, a discovery that eventually may help predict whether some infa...

ECMSS holds free eye camp

ECMSS holds free eye camp

-- 2017-12-10 03:29:28

Eye Care Project of Manabik Shahajya Sansgtha (ECMSS) has organised an eye camp at Taraganj upazila of Rangpur district, recently. The eye camp provided free eye care, cataract identification, specta...

Blood test may predict which breast cancers to recur

Blood test may predict which breast cancers to recur

-- 2017-12-09 12:09:11

A preliminary study found a blood test five years after breast cancer treatment helped identify some women who were more likely to decline, long before a lump or other signs appeared. It was the larg...

ADB, GF agrees to curb life-threatening disease

ADB, GF agrees to curb life-threatening disease

-- 2017-12-09 09:27:44

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) and the Global Fund (GF) have reached an understanding to finance, design, and implementation programmes to fight HIV, tuberculosis, and malaria, and build resilient h...

Hormone contraceptives ‘may cause’ breast cancer

Hormone contraceptives ‘may cause’ breast cancer

AP 2017-12-07 02:44:54

Modern birth control pills that are lower in estrogen have fewer side effects than past oral contraceptives. But a large Danish study suggests that, like older pills, they still modestly raise the ris...

US approves new diabetes drug

US approves new diabetes drug

Reuters 2017-12-06 11:42:19

The US Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday approved Novo Nordisk A/S’s diabetes drug Ozempic, setting the stage for a heated battle with Eli Lilly & Co’s Trulicity. Ozempic, known...

CCHD screening can reduce infant death: Study

CCHD screening can reduce infant death: Study

-- 2017-12-06 06:29:27

Implementing mandatory policies to screen newborns for Critical Congenital Heart Disease (CCHD) can lead to a dramatic decrease in infant cardiac deaths, a US study said Tuesday. In eight US states t...

Trouble mounts for Sanofi dengue vaccine over safety concerns

Trouble mounts for Sanofi dengue vaccine over safety concerns

-- 2017-12-05 11:43:01

The World Health Organization hopes to review safety data on Sanofi’s dengue vaccine this month, while the Philippines ordered an investigation of its now suspended massive immunization program...

Exercise changes gut microbial composition: Study

Exercise changes gut microbial composition: Study

-- 2017-12-05 04:46:01

Exercise alone can change the composition of microbes in the gut, researchers at the University of Illinois (UI) found. UI researchers did two studies, one in mice and the other in human subjects. Th...

Country’s lone neurology hospital  cries for capacity upgrade

Country’s lone neurology hospital cries for capacity upgrade

Saif Uddin 2017-12-04 12:00:00

Bangladesh's lone neurology hospital is seen as a boon, but it has to make do with limited capacity to treat a growing number of patients from across the country. The five-year-old specialised hosp...

865 Bangladeshis infected with HIV in one year

865 Bangladeshis infected with HIV in one year

-- 2017-12-04 12:00:00

A total of 865 people in the country were infected with HIV (human immunodeficiency virus) in last one year. With the new count, the total number of HIV infected people in the country is over 5,000....

Hepatitis may cause liver cancer: Experts

Hepatitis may cause liver cancer: Experts

-- 2017-12-04 10:17:10

Viral hepatitis infection is the leading cause of liver cancer and liver failure. Each year, 1.5 lakh people in India die of hepatitis, which affects 60 million persons. More than 20 Delhi schools pa...

Philippines launches probe into dengue vaccine scare

Philippines launches probe into dengue vaccine scare

BBC 2017-12-04 01:40:03

The Philippines has launched an investigation into the immunisation of 730,000 children with a dengue vaccine that could pose health risks. Last week French drug company Sanofi announced their vaccin...

Quanzhou gets it first dialysis centre

Quanzhou gets it first dialysis centre

-- 2017-12-03 12:00:00

The first independent dialysis centre was launched in Quanzhou, (China) last week, according to a global media report on Saturday. Fresenius Medical College (FMC), a global, market leader in dialysis...

Study reveals diabetes reason behind rising cancer cases

Study reveals diabetes reason behind rising cancer cases

-- 2017-12-03 05:59:41

According to recent a study, a team of researchers have found that cancers related to metabolic diseases, especially diabetes and obesity, have an increasingly high incidence. As per the team's data,...

NITOR limps with shortage of  manpower, treatment facilities

NITOR limps with shortage of manpower, treatment facilities

Arafat Ara 2017-12-02 12:35:19

Patients are deprived of proper services at the country's lone public orthopaedic hospital mainly for what insiders described as shortage of manpower and treatment facilities. Sufferers, however, c...

Heart hospital NICVD cries for care

Heart hospital NICVD cries for care

Ismail Hossain 2017-12-01 12:00:00

Country's exclusive public cardiac hospital NICVD itself needs cure for debilitating problems, principally overcrowding by patients and irregularities. The backhander or influential reference for get...

Early baldness linked to higher risk of heart disease

Early baldness linked to higher risk of heart disease

BBC 2017-11-30 03:34:42

Male pattern baldness and premature greying are more of a risk factor for heart disease than obesity in men under 40, new research suggests. A study of more than 2,000 young men in India showed more...

Bodybuilding products sold online ‘risky’

Bodybuilding products sold online ‘risky’

Reuters 2017-11-30 01:03:57

Many bodybuilding products sold online are mislabeled and contain unapproved drugs and other ingredients that may not be safe, a new study suggests. Researchers tested 44 products they bought online...

Samosa healthier than burger: Report

Samosa healthier than burger: Report

-- 2017-11-29 12:02:38

A samosa is better for an individual’s health than a burger because it is made using fresh ingredients and is free of additives, preservatives and flavourants, according to a new Centre for Scie...

Recent findings on cancer treatment

Recent findings on cancer treatment

-- 2017-11-29 06:24:45

Around 14 million people around the world are diagnosed with cancer of many types, according to ASCO (American Society of Clinical Oncology). Some of the recent developments, which are expected to imp...

Experts urge vital role of ‘Artificial Intelligence’ in radiology

Experts urge vital role of ‘Artificial Intelligence’ in radiology

-- 2017-11-29 05:34:09

Radiologists can use artificial intelligence (AI) to improve medical image analysis and speed up the reading of scans and X-rays, said experts at the on-going Radiological Society of North America (RS...

Algorithm to evaluate X-rays and analyse diseases

Algorithm to evaluate X-rays and analyse diseases

FE Online Desk 2017-11-28 12:00:00

Researchers from Stanford have developed an algorithm that can evaluate chest X-rays and analyse signs of diseases. The research work is going at a good pace, and it has already tasted success. In o...

Scarlet fever cases hit 50-year high in England

Scarlet fever cases hit 50-year high in England

-- 2017-11-28 07:23:44

Scarlet fever hit its highest level in England for 50 years, with more than 17,000 cases reported in 2016 - research in the Lancet shows. The disease has been on the rise since 2014, but experts have...

Flies can help public health surveillance: Study

Flies can help public health surveillance: Study

-- 2017-11-27 08:30:13

Science could soon unleash a most incongruous army in the war against disease - one composed of filthy flies. Researchers have found that because flies are the very vessels that transport harmful and...

Experts urge to give child ‘super-spreaders’ flu vaccine

Experts urge to give child ‘super-spreaders’ flu vaccine

-- 2017-11-27 06:35:51

Children should be given the flu vaccine before Christmas to prevent them putting older relatives at risk of infection, NHS bosses have warned. Doctors say the virus can spread more easily at schools...

World observes Anti-Obesity Day

World observes Anti-Obesity Day

FE online Desk 2017-11-26 08:06:06

November 26 is observed as the Anti-Obesity Day (AOD) in various parts of the world to highlight how Obesity is a public health hazard. Several healthcare organisations and media chalked out various...