Health

The head of the World Health Organization (WHO) has called on global leaders to urge Washington to reverse President Donald Trump’s decision to withdraw from the U.N. health body, warning that the U.S. risks losing access to vital disease outbreak information. During a closed-door meeting with diplomats last week, WHO officials discussed the potential financial and operational impact of losing ...

Zambia has invited Bangladesh to explore the possibility of setting up a pharmaceutical plant in the country, expressing interest in Bangladesh-made pharmaceutical products. This proposal was made during the inaugural meeting between the newly appointed Zambian High Commissioner to Bangladesh, Percy P. Chanda (residing in New Delhi), and Foreign Adviser Md Touhid Hossain at the foreign ministry on Thursday, as ...

The International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (icddr,b) has laid off over 1,000 employees after the United States government decided to halt funding for foreign programs. AKM Tariful Islam Khan, senior manager of communications at icddr,b, confirmed the layoffs on Friday, stating that the affected employees were working on various research projects funded by the US Agency for International ...

Poultry farmers are appealing to the government to let them vaccinate their flocks against the “devastating” bird flu virus spreading across the UK. Vaccinating poultry against avian influenza is currently not allowed in the UK. The government says that strong biosecurity measures and culling are the most effective ways of fighting it. Meanwhile, there are concerns that poultry vaccinations might ...

Department of Environment (DoE) on Wednesday floated two directions including wearing face masks outside home as the city’s air quality index (AQI) reached very unhealthy level. As the AQI here reaches over 250 this morning, the DoE suggests the city dwellers wearing face masks while going outside, an official release said. Simultaneously, the sensitive people, such as the ailing, elderly, ...

The Central Intelligence Agency has assessed that the COVID-19 pandemic is “more likely” to have emerged from a lab rather than from nature, an agency spokesperson said on Saturday, reports AP. The agency had for years said it could not conclude whether COVID-19 was the result of a lab incident or it originated in nature. But in the final weeks ...

The Central Intelligence Agency has shifted its official stance on the origin of Covid-19, saying Saturday that the virus was “more likely” leaked from a Chinese lab than transmitted by animals. The new assessment came after John Ratcliffe was confirmed Thursday as the CIA director under the second White House administration of Donald Trump. Ratcliffe, who served as the director ...

The World Health Organization will cut costs and review which health programs to prioritize after President Donald Trump announced he was withdrawing the US from the agency, the WHO’s chief told staff in an internal memo seen by Reuters. Trump made the move on the first day of his second term in office on Monday, accusing the UN health agency ...

A recent study shows that dancing can reduce depression in people with Parkinson’s disease. This approach is fun, affordable, and doesn’t involve medication. Joseph DeSouza, a professor at York University, has been studying the impact of dance on people with Parkinson’s since 2013. He says dancing makes patients feel happy and energized. The research was mainly focused on how dance ...

Lives are being lost and families torn apart because of “woefully inadequate care” for people with eating disorders, according to a group of MPs. The “alarming” rise in disorders such as anorexia and bulimia, over the past decade, has now become an “emergency”, the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Eating Disorders says in a report. And greater awareness about different types ...