Health

Medical practitioners and dieticians have for long recommended that adults keep off shrimp as it is considered high in cholesterol. Now, a study, to the delight of non-vegetarians, shiws that the traditional wisdom may be flawed. A study by Central Institute of Brackishwater Aquaculture says healthy individuals can have a moderate quantity of shrimps as part of their daily diet ...

While we know that roti is nothing but another form of bread, we have always been told that it is a far healthier option to consume. In the days when bread was white, there was a pretty sound argument on behalf of roti. But today when bread is available with all sorts of multi grains, and roti is still primarily ...

More details of plans to improve cancer care in England have been revealed. They include a target that 95% of people should be given a diagnosis or the all-clear within 28 days of being referred by a GP, by 2020. Implementing it will cost £300m a year until then. The target – recommended by the Independent Cancer Taskforce – will ...

A new study has claimed that men with high BMI (Body Mass Index) have a lower risk of rheumatoid arthritis. In the study, scientists in Sweden analysed data from 383 patients, taken from two population based health surveys with a total of 50,705 participants, to discover that there was a strong association between a high BMI in men and a ...

Last winter’s flu jab worked in 34% of cases, according to a final report by Public Health England. At one stage early in the season, it was estimated that the vaccine was stopping only three out of every 100 immunised people developing symptoms. But the report said there had been a “shift” in the dominant circulating strains during the rest ...

The chief executive of a major NHS hospital has resigned after it was revealed the hospital is running a deficit of up to £1.2m a week. Dr Keith McNeil had been appointed to the job at Addenbrooke’s Hospital in Cambridge in November 2012. The hospital’s chief finance officer Paul James has also resigned. They have stepped down ahead of a ...

Many women who have chronic pelvic or belly pain, which is associated with ovarian vein varicosities (dilation) termed as pelvic congestion syndrome (PCS), undergo surgery and remove their uterus. It is not widely known that Embolisation can cure women of this pain and they need not undergo surgery. Most women who suffer from this are young , having more than ...

Amid the indiscriminate use of antibiotics and other drugs leading to treatment failure, the World Health Organization (WHO) has urged member countries in South-East Asia Region, including Bangladesh, to urgently address this threat to public health, reports UNB. “Immediate action is needed to stop the world from heading towards pre-antibiotic era in which all achievements made in prevention and control ...

Dentist, using anaesthetic in dental surgery might affect tooth cell growth and development A new study has suggested that local anaesthetic used during orthodontic surgeries may affect the development of children’s teeth. The study comes at a time when more children than ever before are subjected to dental surgery — and local anaesthetic — because of tooth decay or other ...

A drug used to treat diabetes could help in the fight against blood cancer, early research in the journal Nature suggests. An international team of scientists gave the drug to patients with chronic myeloid leukaemia, alongside standard treatment. Those who received the combination therapy were more likely to be free of the disease for longer. Chronic myeloid leukaemia (CML) is ...