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Huge malnutrition toll on Yemen children

Huge malnutrition toll on Yemen children

-- 2018-11-21 14:41:32

An estimated 85,000 children under the age of five may have died from acute malnutrition in three years of war in Yemen, a leading charity says. The number is equivalent to the entire under-five popu...

US promotes traditional Chinese medicine

US promotes traditional Chinese medicine

-- 2018-11-20 14:47:15

A group of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) practitioners in the Bay Area in US state of California are working together to promote TCM among Chinese communities and beyond. California Assembly mem...

Experts advice diabetic patients to lead disciplined life

Experts advice diabetic patients to lead disciplined life

-- 2018-11-18 13:28:47

Health experts and medical practitioners at a seminar in Rajshahi observed that maintaining discipline, taking prescribed diets and medicines with regular physical exercise are very important for the...

330,000 Rohingyas to get cholera vaccine

330,000 Rohingyas to get cholera vaccine

-- 2018-11-17 15:16:49

Nearly 330,000 Rohingyas and Bangladesh host community will be vaccinated against cholera in a month-long campaign that began on Saturday in the camps of Cox’s Bazar district and its nearby area...

Study finds why people drink coffee

Study finds why people drink coffee

-- 2018-11-17 13:24:56

The more sensitive people are to the bitter taste of caffeine, the more coffee they drink, reported a study from Northwestern Medicine and QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute in Australia. In t...

Researchers decode protection mechanism of deadly intestinal parasite

Researchers decode protection mechanism of deadly intestinal parasite

-- 2018-11-16 13:50:10

Israeli researchers have deciphered the protective mechanisms of the deadly intestinal parasite "Entamoeba histolytica" (EH), which could lead to the development of drugs to prevent related disease ou...

S Africa health care requires overhaul: Minister

S Africa health care requires overhaul: Minister

-- 2018-11-15 15:30:01

An overhaul of South Africa's health care system is needed to ensure quality health access to both the poor and rich, Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi said on Wednesday. Despite billions of rands bei...

South Sudan provides free eye surgery to patients

South Sudan provides free eye surgery to patients

-- 2018-11-14 16:40:41

Several South Sudanese patients suffering long time eye complications are reaping dividends of peace returning to the country following the government's decision to roll out free surgery campaign bein...

AI may detect Alzheimer's disease six years before doctors

AI may detect Alzheimer's disease six years before doctors

-- 2018-11-11 13:18:49

A new artificial intelligence (AI) system developed by US researchers may be capable of detecting the early signs of Alzheimer's disease six years before doctors can make an actual diagnosis. Scienti...

Study links heart disease to autoimmune

Study links heart disease to autoimmune

-- 2018-11-10 13:02:54

US researchers found that immune cells cause cholesterol to be trapped in blood vessels, thus putting people with autoimmune diseases such as psoriasis, lupus and rheumatoid arthritis at high risk of...

People at rest burn more energy in afternoon than in morning: Study

People at rest burn more energy in afternoon than in morning: Study

-- 2018-11-09 19:05:11

A study published in the journal Current Biology on Thursday found that when at rest, people burn 10 per cent more calories in the late afternoon and early evening than in the early morning hours. It...

Pendekar Energy stages free medical camp

Pendekar Energy stages free medical camp

-- 2018-11-08 19:01:27

Leading power producer Pendekar Energy Ltd has facilitated a two-day free medical camp in neighbourhood villages of its three power plants at Haripur Bandar, Narayanganj and Meghnaghat under its Corpo...

PM donates Tk 100m to BSMMU poor patients’ fund

PM donates Tk 100m to BSMMU poor patients’ fund

-- 2018-11-08 18:04:02

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Thursday donated Tk 100 million in aid of the poor patients of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University (BSMMU). She donated the amount to “BSMMU Oti Daridra...

Focus on measures to reduce cancer, heart disease deaths

Focus on measures to reduce cancer, heart disease deaths

FE Report 2018-11-07 15:02:51

Speakers at a roundtable discussion in the city on Tuesday called for taking more special preventive measures to bring down the numbers of deaths caused by the deadly diseases like cancer and heart di...

Noises linked to higher risks of heart attacks, stroke: Study

Noises linked to higher risks of heart attacks, stroke: Study

-- 2018-11-07 13:12:42

A preliminary study showed that exposure to environmental noises might increase the risk of heart attacks and strokes. Noises can fuel the activity of a brain region involved in stress response and i...

Drug resistant superbugs kill 33,000 in Europe each year

Drug resistant superbugs kill 33,000 in Europe each year

-- 2018-11-06 13:07:31

Superbug infections resistant to multiple antibiotics kill around 33,000 people a year in Europe, and the burden of these diseases is comparable to that of flu, tuberculosis and HIV combined, health e...

Researchers identify three subtypes of depression

Researchers identify three subtypes of depression

-- 2018-11-05 20:54:27

Japanese scientists have found three subtypes of depression, one of which seems untreatable by traditional medicines, reports Xinhua. The three subtypes were categorised by functional connectivity pa...

Glowing chemical 'could aid cancer surgery'

Glowing chemical 'could aid cancer surgery'

-- 2018-11-04 13:52:19

A chemical that makes brain tumours glow pink could help surgeons to remove the cancer safely, a trial suggests. Scientists gave people with suspected glioma a drink containing 5-ALA, a substance kno...

Llama blood clue to beating all flu

Llama blood clue to beating all flu

-- 2018-11-03 14:56:42

Scientists in the US have recruited an unlikely ally in their efforts to develop a new flu treatment. Llamas have been used to produce a new antibody therapy that has the potential to work against al...

Cell phone radiation linked to cancer risks in male rats: Study

Cell phone radiation linked to cancer risks in male rats: Study

-- 2018-11-02 16:21:48

A toxicological study showed clear evidence that male rats exposed to high level of radio frequency radiation (RFR) like that used in 2G and 3G cell phones developed cancerous heart tumours, though th...

Dogs could detect malaria by sniffing socks: Study

Dogs could detect malaria by sniffing socks: Study

-- 2018-11-01 14:21:28

Sniff dogs could be trained to detect malaria in people infected with the disease even if they are not showing symptoms, according to a new study by Durham University in United Kingdom. "While our fi...

WHO claims air pollution severely damaging children’s health

WHO claims air pollution severely damaging children’s health

-- 2018-10-31 16:43:21

More than 90 per cent of the world's children breathe polluted air that puts their health and development at serious risk, and tragically kills many of them, the World Health Organization (WHO) warned...

Pregnancy gap should be at least a year, researchers say

Pregnancy gap should be at least a year, researchers say

-- 2018-10-30 14:40:17

Mothers should wait at least a year between giving birth and getting pregnant again to reduce health risks to mother and baby, a new study says. But researchers say they need not wait as long as the...

Eighth child dies at New Jersey centre hit by viral outbreak

Eighth child dies at New Jersey centre hit by viral outbreak

-- 2018-10-28 12:22:47

An eighth child has died at a New Jersey rehabilitation centre where 23 people have been infected in a deadly viral outbreak, state health officials said on Friday. The outbreak of adenovirus at the...

Caesarean births make record in Australia

Caesarean births make record in Australia

-- 2018-10-27 13:20:18

The number of Australian women opting to give birth via caesarean section (C-section) has hit a record high. Australian Institute of Health and Welfare data released on Friday revealed that 28.5 per...

CCC restarts urban healthcare services after six years

CCC restarts urban healthcare services after six years

Pankaj Dastider 2018-10-27 10:18:11

Chittagong City Corporation (CCC) has resumed its urban primary healthcare services after the project remained suspended for long six years. Under the project, the city dwellers, especially poor wome...

New 'Trojan horse' antibiotic promising

New 'Trojan horse' antibiotic promising

-- 2018-10-26 13:58:13

Scientists say they have engineered a new antibiotic that appears promising in early clinical trials. The drug, made by Shionogi Inc, acts like the Trojan horse in Greek legend to trick bacteria into...

SI-Club holds breast cancer awareness seminar at IUB

SI-Club holds breast cancer awareness seminar at IUB

FE Online Desk 2018-10-22 16:01:58

Soroptimist International (SI) Club of Dhaka has organised a breast cancer awareness seminar at the Independent University, Bangladesh (IUB) in the capital. As October is the month of creating awaren...

Dope test must for govt job

Dope test must for govt job

Munima Sultana 2018-10-22 10:05:16

From now on, a candidate selected for a government job must undergo a dope test alongside regular health check-up to the done by a medical board. This new guideline will apply to the entrants to gove...

New drug to sustain oxygen-starved hearts

New drug to sustain oxygen-starved hearts

-- 2018-10-21 15:14:54

American scientists at University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) have developed a new drug that can restore the function of oxygen-starved heart tissue under the conditions of hypoxia, according...