Health

The Liberal Democrats have urged Andy Burnham to stop the “bonfire of patient safety” under Labour proposals to modernise the NHS in England. Healthwatch England (HWE), an independent body which represents the views of patients at their local health and social care providers, is set to be scrapped under the government’s Health Bill. The Health Services Safety Investigations Body (HSSIB), ...

Researchers have found in heart patients that they have significantly higher concentrations of micro-plastics in their blood circulation compared to healthy individuals or other patients. A study regarding this factors observe that certain factors, such as smoking and regular exposure to air pollution – increase risk of high micro-plastics incorporation in the blood-circulation-system up to six times. Elevated levels of ...

Vitamin C has long been promoted as a possible cancer treatment, but new research suggests its potential may be more complicated than the idea that taking large amounts of the vitamin can cure the disease. The debate goes back to Nobel Prize-winning scientist Linus Pauling, who became a strong supporter of high-dose vitamin C late in his career. In the ...

Prime Minister Tarique Rahman has inaugurated a doctors’ rally on the occasion of the 37th founding anniversary of the Doctors Association of Bangladesh (DAB). He inaugurated the rally at the LD Hall of Jatiya Sangshad on Saturday morning. Earlier, the primer planted a neem sapling on the premises of Jatiya Sangshad. At the same time, his wife Dr Zubaida Rahman ...

Three more children died with measles symptoms across the country in the 24 hours, raising nationwide death toll to 860. During the same period, 1,218 children were infected with measles or exhibited symptoms of the disease, according to a regular report released by the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) on Friday afternoon (August 7). According to DGHS data, a ...

The head of the World Health Organization on Wednesday urged authorities to step up the Ebola response and better protect frontline health workers, during a visit to the DR Congo where a deadly outbreak is spreading fast. The Democratic Republic of Congo declared its 17th Ebola outbreak on May 15. There have been 3,874 confirmed cases including 1,751 deaths in ...

Five more children have died with measles symptoms in the country, taking the death toll from suspected cases to 758. Additionally, 96 children have died from confirmed measles infections, which brings the total death toll to 854. The Health Emergency Operation Centre and Control Room of the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) disclosed this information in a press release ...

A new study has found a possible link between fructose, a common dietary sugar, and the spread of an aggressive form of ovarian cancer. Researchers at The Wistar Institute found that cancer cells that survive chemotherapy can release fructose, which may act as a chemical signal and encourage nearby cancer cells to spread. The findings, published in Nature Aging, point ...

Bangladesh has reported three more deaths from dengue fever over the past 24 hours, while another 580 patients have been hospitalised with the Aedes mosquito-borne disease. The Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) bulletin issued on Monday shows that the latest figures have raised the death toll from dengue to 59 this year. The bulletin also said 580 patients were ...

Four more children have died with measles like symptoms in the country over the last 24 hours and the death tally unfortunately continues to climb. During the same period, 1,137 children were infected with measles or showed measles like symptoms of the disease, as published by the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) on Sunday, August 2. The DGHS stated ...