Health

Implementing sodium reduction policies could save an estimated seven million lives globally by 2030, WHO said in a new report launched on Thursday (Mar 9). “Unhealthy diets are a leading cause of death and disease globally, and excessive sodium intake is one of the main culprits,” the World Health Organization’s (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus declared. A first-of-its-kind WHO global ...

For many children, the winter season comes with regular exposure to circulating viruses at school or daycare. A warm forehead is often one of the first clear signs a child has caught a bug. But some parents may not be properly measuring or responding to elevated temperatures in children, a new national poll suggests. While most parents recognize that a ...

Bangladesh reported eight more Covid-19 cases in the 24 hours till Tuesday morning. With the new cases, the country’s total caseload rose to 2,037,879, according to the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS). However, the official death toll from the disease remained unchanged at 29,445 as no new fatalities were reported. The daily case test positivity rate rose to 0.44 ...

A large number of kidney patients of the country die every year in the country due to lack of proper and timely treatment, say experts. “If we can ensure timely and proper treatment to kidney patients then it is possible to save many lives,” Prof. Dr. Firoz Khan, former director of National Institute of Kidney Diseases & Urology (NIKDU) said. ...

Taking the emergency response plan of the hospitals with coordinated support is essential to address needs of urgent treatment of vulnerable patients including critical kidney patients in the country, viewed experts. The health experts came up with the recommendation while speaking at a roundtable titled ‘Kidney health for all; Duties for support of vulnerable at unexpected disaster’ at the Jatiya ...

Putting olive oil in coffee is hardly a tradition in Italy, but that didn’t stop Starbucks interim CEO Howard Schultz from launching a series of beverages that do just that in Milan, the city that inspired his coffee house empire. The coffee-olive oil concoction – echoing a keto-inspired trend of adding butter to coffee, only with a sugary twist – ...

The booster doses (third and fourth shots) of Covid-19 vaccines will remain suspended temporarily from Thursday as its stock has run out. Prof Ahmedul Kabir, additional director general of the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS), said this at a press conference at the DGHS conference room in Mohakhali of the capital on Wednesday. He said the stock of Covid-19 ...

FBI Director Christopher Wray has said that the bureau believes Covid-19 “most likely” originated in a “Chinese government-controlled lab”. “The FBI has for quite some time now assessed that the origins of the pandemic are most likely a potential lab incident,” he told Fox News. It is the first public confirmation of the FBI’s classified judgement of how the pandemic ...

Climate change and health resource website has been launched to provide specific Bangladesh data about comprehensive resource for understanding the effects of climate change on health. This website serves as a one-stop resource for the latest data, research, and information on this important and rapidly evolving topic. The website information was shared with journalists at a programme at the icddr,b ...

Under the leadership of the Communicable Disease Control (CDC) of the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) and with support from the World Health Organization (WHO), icddr,b, and the Civil Surgeon Office of Noakhali, launched a cholera vaccination campaign in Noakhali’s Bhasan Char Monday. About 30,000 forcibly displaced Myanmar nationals (FDMNs), commonly referred to as Rohingyas, will be vaccinated using ...