Health

Researchers say they are closer to developing a vaccine to give life-long protection against any type of flu, after promising trials in animals. Two separate US teams have found success with an approach that homes in on a stable part of the flu virus. That should remove the problem with current flu vaccines which must be given anew each year ...

Experts have stated that diabetes crisis in Britain can cripple the National Health Service (NHS) as there is a huge increase in the number of sufferers. There is an increase of 60 percent of diabetics compared to the last decade and almost four million adults in Britain are suffering from the disease, the Daily Express reported. Campaigners have urged people ...

The likely toll of long working hours is revealed in a major new study which shows that employees still at their desks into the evening run an increased risk of stroke – and the longer the hours they put in, the higher the risk. The largest study conducted on the issue, carried out in three continents and led by scientists ...

Want to drop those extra pounds? It’s time to consult your doctor as a new study has revealed that physician’s support is the key to successful weight loss. Johns Hopkins researchers have said that their findings could inform the development of weight loss programs that give primary care physicians a starring role. In the study, Primary care physician Wendy L. ...

For most of us, sweating is one of the major decisive factors that make us feel that we have worked hard and achieved the day’s fitness goals thoroughly. Truly, sweating is one of the major determinants of increased fitness levels. However, as it turns out, there are many factors about exercise sweat and sweating, in general, that we are completely ...

Giving obese teenagers extra vitamin D pills can elevate their cholesterol and fat-storing triglycerides levels, an Indian American researcher has discovered. Seema Kumar, pediatric endocrinologist in the Mayo Clinic Children’s Centre also found no benefits of extra vitamin D supplements in improving heart health or decreasing diabetes risk. Parents and providers often put obese adolescent children on vitamin D regiments ...

A team of doctors here on Monday conducted the first-ever “stomach laparoscopic bypass operation” to reduce obesity. The operation was carried out at Bangladesh-Japan Friendship Hospital (BJFH). Chairman of the hospital and eminent laparoscopic surgeon Professor Dr Sardar A Nayeem led the 10-member specialist surgery team, BSS reports. The team included Surgeon of Bel View Hospital in India Dr Sarfaraz ...

Although 60 percent kidney ailments are curable yet one in five kidney patients die in every hour in the country, leading health experts told a seminar in Dhaka on Thursday. The number of kidney patients has increased alarmingly as two crore people in the country are now somehow suffering from kidney disease, said the seminar titled “Kidney disease prevention and ...

The NHS is potentially vulnerable to fraud due to loopholes in the issuing of European Health Insurance cards, the Department of Health has admitted. An investigation by the Daily Mail found people who had never worked in Britain were able to obtain a free EHIC card in the UK, the paper says. Health services abroad were then able to claim ...

Scientists have come up with a new strategy to increase early diagnosis of cancer that not only save many lives but also cut the cost of treatment. According to Cancer Research UK, more than 90 percent of people diagnosed with stage one of the eight most common cancers were alive after 10 years compared with 5 percent found at stage ...