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WHO DG announces Global Health Leaders Awards

WHO DG announces Global Health Leaders Awards

-- 2022-05-22 19:07:47

The WHO Director-General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus on Sunday announced six awards to recognise outstanding contributions to advancing global health, demonstrated leadership and commitment to regio...

Intake of excessive gastric medicine leads to ulcer

Intake of excessive gastric medicine leads to ulcer

-- 2022-05-22 18:20:56

Intake of excessive amounts of proton-pump inhibitors (PPIs) or gastric medications can cause gastric ulcers among 45 per cent of patients, said the doctors at Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical Univers...

Monkeypox usually self-limiting but may be severe in some individuals: WHO

Monkeypox usually self-limiting but may be severe in some individuals: WHO

-- 2022-05-22 14:59:55

Monkeypox is usually self-limiting but may be severe in some individuals, such as children, pregnant women or persons with immune suppression due to other health conditions, says the World Health Orga...

How concerned should we be about monkeypox?

How concerned should we be about monkeypox?

-- 2022-05-21 20:04:17

Global health officials have sounded the alarm over rising cases in Europe and elsewhere of monkeypox, a type of viral infection more common to west and central Africa. As of Friday, some 80 monkeypo...

Monkeypox: 80 cases confirmed in 12 countries

Monkeypox: 80 cases confirmed in 12 countries

-- 2022-05-21 19:58:59

The World Health Organization has said another 50 suspected cases are being investigated - without naming any countries - and warned that more cases are likely to be reported. Infections have been co...

WHO calls emergency meeting to discuss monkeypox outbreak

WHO calls emergency meeting to discuss monkeypox outbreak

-- 2022-05-20 21:53:31

The World Health Organization was due to hold an emergency meeting on Friday to discuss the recent outbreak of monkeypox, a viral infection more common in the west and central Africa, after more than...

Portugal identifies five monkeypox infections, Europe on alert

Portugal identifies five monkeypox infections, Europe on alert

-- 2022-05-18 22:43:30

Portuguese authorities said on Wednesday they had identified five cases of rare monkeypox infection and Spain's health services are testing eight potential cases after Britain put Europe on alert for...

‘World is not better prepared for new pandemic than before Covid-19’

‘World is not better prepared for new pandemic than before Covid-19’

-- 2022-05-18 20:53:05

The world is not better prepared for a new pandemic than it was when coronavirus emerged in 2019 and maybe in a worse place given the economic toll, according to a panel set up by the World Health Org...

Pollution killing 9 million people a year: Report

Pollution killing 9 million people a year: Report

-- 2022-05-18 11:16:57

Worsening outdoor air pollution and toxic lead poisoning have kept global deaths from environmental contamination at an estimated 9 million per year since 2015 – countering modest progress made...

Coronavirus may be linked to cases of severe hepatitis in children

Coronavirus may be linked to cases of severe hepatitis in children

-- 2022-05-17 14:23:39

Children with Covid-19 are at significantly increased risk for liver dysfunction afterward, according to a report posted on Saturday on medRxiv ahead of peer review. But most of the children with acu...

Prediabetes or borderline diabetes: What can we do?

Prediabetes or borderline diabetes: What can we do?

DR IMTIAZ AHMED 2022-05-17 14:22:10

There is a condition called prediabetes or borderline diabetes when someone doesn’t have a blood sugar level to be diagnosed as a diabetic, but still has high enough sugar to be concerned about....

Digital marketing of alcohol increasingly targets young people, says WHO

Digital marketing of alcohol increasingly targets young people, says WHO

-- 2022-05-13 23:22:59

Alcohol is increasingly being marketed across borders, with young people and heavy drinkers particularly targeted, according to a recent report by the UN health agency. The study shows how the digita...

Raise health allocation to 30pc

Raise health allocation to 30pc

FE REPORT 2022-05-13 09:19:17

Speakers at a programme on Thursday suggested the government raise allocation for primary healthcare in the 2022-23 national budget to ease the burden of out-of-pocket health expenditure on the public...

Large study finds Omicron as severe as previous COVID variants

Large study finds Omicron as severe as previous COVID variants

-- 2022-05-05 16:10:52

The Omicron variant of the SARS-CoV2 virus is intrinsically as severe as previous variants, unlike assumptions made in previous studies that it was more transmissible but less severe, a large stu...

Omicron as severe as previous COVID variants, large study finds

Omicron as severe as previous COVID variants, large study finds

-- 2022-05-05 14:09:45

The omicron variant of the SARS-CoV2 virus is intrinsically as severe as previous variants, unlike assumptions made in previous studies that it was more transmissible but less severe, a large study in...

WHO says it receives reports of at least 228 probable cases of child hepatitis

WHO says it receives reports of at least 228 probable cases of child hepatitis

-- 2022-05-03 21:01:21

A World Health Organization spokesperson said on Tuesday that it had received reports of at least 228 probable cases of child hepatitis with dozens more under investigation. "As of May 1, at least 22...

Regulate overuse of antibiotics

Regulate overuse of antibiotics

FE REPORT 2022-04-29 08:51:11

Indiscriminate and excessive use of antibiotics without prescription in Bangladesh requires strict regulation to prevent outbreak of drug-resistant diseases, Neely Kaydos-Daniels, Country Director, U....

Moderna seeks US authorisation of Covid-19 shot for kids under 6

Moderna seeks US authorisation of Covid-19 shot for kids under 6

-- 2022-04-28 20:38:00

Moderna Inc said on Thursday it asked US regulators to authorise its Covid-19 vaccine for children under the age of 6, which would make it the first shot against the coronavirus available for those un...

‘Regulate overuse of antibiotics’   

‘Regulate overuse of antibiotics’  

FE ONLINE REPORT  2022-04-28 19:30:14

Indiscriminate and excessive use of antibiotics without prescription in Bangladesh requires strict regulation to prevent outbreak of drug-resistant diseases, Neely Kaydos-Daniels, country director, U....

Power nap: Short break to prolong working energy

Power nap: Short break to prolong working energy

DR IMTIAZ AHMED 2022-04-25 13:45:27

A short daytime nap is often a great way to reinvigorate ourselves. Even for people who sleep soundly for 7-8 hours at night, it might be beneficial. Why? Because after 08 hours of wakefulness, natur...

Hollywood actor Liam Neeson hails UNICEF vaccination efforts

Hollywood actor Liam Neeson hails UNICEF vaccination efforts

FE ONLINE REPORT 2022-04-24 15:26:57

UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador Liam Neeson is leading UNICEF’s global immunisation initiative with a global message thanking the scientists, parents, health workers, and others who have been so crit...

WHO says at least one child has died after increase of acute hepatitis cases in children

WHO says at least one child has died after increase of acute hepatitis cases in children

-- 2022-04-24 11:33:05

The World Health Organization said on Saturday that at least one child death had been reported following an increase of acute hepatitis of unknown origin in children, and that at least 169 cases had b...

EU regulator backs using Pfizer Covid shot as booster after other vaccines

EU regulator backs using Pfizer Covid shot as booster after other vaccines

-- 2022-04-22 23:02:18

A European Medicines Agency (EMA) committee on Friday recommended approving the use of Pfizer PFE.N and BioNTech's Covid-19 vaccine, Comirnaty, as a booster for adults who have previously been inocula...

Proper exercise to keep your spine fit

Proper exercise to keep your spine fit

Dr IMTIAZ AHMED 2022-04-21 13:36:00

The spine is related to a wide range of body movements. A strong spine can help to avoid back pain. If not properly taken care of, the muscles and ligaments of the spine can weaken making movements pa...

Woman contracted coronavirus twice within record 20 days

Woman contracted coronavirus twice within record 20 days

-- 2022-04-21 13:02:51

A 31-year-old healthcare worker caught Covid twice within 20 days - the shortest-known gap between infections, Spanish researchers have claimed. Tests show the woman was infected with two differe...

Demand for Pfizer's COVID pills lags around the world

Demand for Pfizer's COVID pills lags around the world

-- 2022-04-19 17:19:43

Worldwide demand for Pfizer Inc's oral COVID-19 antiviral treatment Paxlovid has been unexpectedly light due to complicated eligibility requirements, reduced testing, and potential for drug interactio...

US announces second global Covid-19 summit on May 12

US announces second global Covid-19 summit on May 12

-- 2022-04-18 19:53:42

A second Global Covid-19 Summit will be held virtually on May 12 for countries to discuss efforts to end the pandemic and prepare for future health threats, according to a joint statement on Monday....

BSMMU VC warns against excessive use of antibiotics

BSMMU VC warns against excessive use of antibiotics

-- 2022-04-18 16:28:39

Bangladesh will face a greater health crisis than that of Covid-19 due to antibiotics resistance by 2050, warned Prof Dr Md Sharfuddin Ahmed, Vice-Chancellor of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical Univer...

Boils: Why and how to deal with it

Boils: Why and how to deal with it

Dr Imtiaz Ahmed 2022-04-17 17:40:04

All of us have suffered from boil at least once in our lifetime. It is an infection, caused usually by the bacteria Staphylococcus aureus affecting the hair follicles and surrounding sweat glands. Thi...

Omicron-specific Sinopharm COVID vaccine candidates cleared for clinical trial

Omicron-specific Sinopharm COVID vaccine candidates cleared for clinical trial

-- 2022-04-16 15:36:33

Two COVID-19 vaccine candidates developed by units of China National Biotec Group (CNBG) to target the Omicron variant were approved for clinical trials as boosters in Hong Kong, the Sinopharm subsidi...