Health

Denmark aims to eradicate cervical cancer by 2040 thanks to a national HPV vaccination campaign and screening programme, the Danish Cancer Society said on Monday. “Even before 2040, so few women may have the disease that it may be considered eradicated,” the Danish Cancer Society said in a statement. “It would be the first time a cancer has disappeared,” it ...

More than three million children around the world are thought to have died in 2022 as a result of infections that are resistant to antibiotics, according to a study by two leading experts in child health. Children in Africa and South East Asia were found to be most at risk. Antimicrobial resistance – known as AMR – develops when the ...

Bangladesh’s progress in maternal health is at risk due to announced and potential funding cuts by key development partners, according to a UN global report. The report titled ‘Trends in Maternal Mortality’, released on World Health Day, highlights global progress in reducing maternal deaths. According to the report, Bangladesh has significantly reduced its maternal mortality rates through government initiatives, including ...

Concern is growing among public health experts that anti-vaccine sentiment within federal and state governments may derail emerging and cutting-edge vaccines that are now awaiting regulatory approval in the United States – essentially leaving those vaccines in limbo. Just last week, the US Food and Drug Administration delayed a decision on full approval of Novavax’s Covid-19 vaccine even though it ...

Linda Kelly, 67, has advanced breast cancer which has spread to her bones and chest wall, but says a new pill has given her extra years of life and time to travel with her husband. “It does let you have a normal kind of life and you forget you have cancer,” she says of the new drug capivasertib, which has ...

I’ve never wanted a piece of news to be less true. Popular dairy brand Cabot Creamery issued a recall on almost 2,000 pounds of its Extra Creamy Premium Sea Salted Butter due to contamination with elevated levels of coliform. What is coliform, you may ask? Well, you may regret that question. Coliform is a bacteria that is commonly found in ...

Upazila health complexes and some community clinics are currently facing a shortage of antihypertensive drugs as the programme funded by multiple lenders “HPNSP” under which the medications are procured remains halted, according to health experts. To address the shortage, antihypertensive medications will be purchased next June with government funding. Dr Muhammad Habibur Rahman, line director of the Community Based Health ...

The infected blood inquiry is holding two more days of hearings amid concerns about the government’s response on compensation, with campaigners warning they are “losing faith”. It comes nearly a year after the final report was published into the scandal – said to be the biggest treatment disaster in the history of the NHS. More than 30,000 people contracted HIV ...

The government is set to launch a “Government Pharmacy” in all public hospitals across the country for the first time. The initiative aims to provide 250 commonly used medicines at one-third of their current market prices. The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare has announced that these government-run pharmacies will be established in the premises of every public hospital nationwide. ...

Another pandemic is certain to occur sooner or later, and it is not just a “theoretical risk” but an “epidemiological certainty,” according to World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus. Speaking at the opening of the resumed Thirteenth Meeting of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Body on the WHO Pandemic Agreement, Ghebreyesus highlighted the serious impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, warning ...