Health

Directorate of National Consumers’ Right Protection (DNCRP) has fined a pharmacy and a diagnostic centre Tk 50,000 in the capital for using date-expired materials. A team from the directorate, led by its Dhaka district assistant director Md Abdul Jabbar, on Sunday conducted raids in city’s Kamrangirchar area and imposed the fine. Of them, Zoha Medicine Park was fined Tk 30,000 ...

China is taking proactive measures to counter new COVID-19 cases caused by the JN.1 variant of the virus, which is spreading globally, China’s health authority said Thursday, reports Xinhua. “China is routinely monitoring COVID-19 infections to determine the trend of infection spread and virus mutation,” said Li Zhengmao, an official with the national administration of disease prevention and control, Xinhua ...

A few years ago, my best friend texted me to confess that she was worried about her texting. Her hands and fingers ached throughout the day, and the pain worsened when she used her smartphone. Could our incessant texting about parenting and politics be the culprit? There isn’t much research yet on the effects that smartphone use can have on ...

This year has witnessed a record number of reported AIDS patients and deaths in the country, marking the highest figures ever recorded, according to government statistics. Since January 1, a total of 1276 AIDS patients have been detected in the country. Meantime, 266 AIDS patients died. Both are the highest since the first AIDS statistics were published in 1989. According ...

The head of the WHO said Tuesday the world needs to properly prepare for future pandemics after finally ending three years of Covid “crisis, pain and loss,” In his end-of-year message, World Health Organization director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said 2023 had marked a turning point in fighting major health challenges but had also brought “immense and avoidable suffering.” Tedros called ...

The following is a summary of some recent studies on COVID-19. They include research that warrants further study to corroborate the findings and that has yet to be certified by peer review. OBESITY MAY WEAKEN VACCINE PROTECTION IN THE NEVER INFECTED Severe obesity may weaken the effectiveness of COVID-19 vaccines in those who have never been infected with the coronavirus, ...

Babies in the womb are big fans of carrots but not so much leafy green vegetables — and show it in their faces, scientists said in a new study published Thursday. Researchers at Durham University in northeast England said the findings were the first direct evidence that babies react differently to various smells and tastes before they are born, reports ...

Taking Novo Nordisk’s new obesity drug may help reduce the risk of heart disease as well as boosting weight loss, according to new research from the United States. After a year of taking semaglutide, marketed as Wegovy, patients’ risk of suffering from conditions like a heart attack or a stroke over the next ten years dropped to 6.3% from 7.6% ...

Similar to doing an MOT on a car, scientists believe they can run a blood test to check how fast a person’s internal organs are ageing, and even predict which ones might soon fail. The Stanford University team say they can monitor 11 major body parts, including the heart, brain and lungs, reports BBC. They tried it on thousands of ...

India’s top drug controller has banned an anti-cold drug combination for use in children below the age of four, BBC reports. The ban comes after a spate of child deaths in The Gambia and Uzbekistan were linked to Indian-made cough syrups last year. In India, at least 12 children died between 2019 and 2020 allegedly after consuming a similar medication ...