Health

The mother of a teenage girl who died of an allergic reaction after drinking a Costa hot chocolate has told the BBC she lies awake at night thinking about whether she could have prevented her death. Hannah Jacobs, 13, had a severe dairy allergy and died within hours of taking a sip of the drink on 8 February last year. ...

Israel has agreed to a series of three-day “humanitarian pauses” in Gaza to allow health officials to administer polio vaccinations to children in the territory, the World Health Organization said Thursday. “The way we discussed and agreed, the campaign will start on the first of September, in central Gaza, for three days, and there will be a humanitarian pause during ...

Professor Dr Nazmul Hossain has been appointed as the acting director general of the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS). He is the professor of Department of Cardiac Surgery at Chattogram Medical College Hospital (CMCH). The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare issued a notification in this regard on Wednesday (August 28).

People taking semaglutide, the popular medication for diabetes and weight loss, are more likely to report having thoughts of suicide compared with those taking other drugs, according to a new study of an international drug safety database. But the finding is the latest see-saw of scientific evidence on the risk of depression and suicide tied to the popular medications — ...

A recent study has revealed alarming levels of harmful bacteria in popular street foods sold across Dhaka, although most people consuming these street foods are not falling ill. The study was led by Dr Md Latiful Bari, chief scientist and head of the Food, Nutrition and Agriculture Research Laboratory at the Centre for Advanced Research in Sciences of the University ...

Any disaster, whether natural or man-made, leaves not only direct damage but also indirect impacts, one of the most significant being on mental health. When a person experiences an accident, violence, disaster, or witnesses the tragic death or injury of a loved one, it can have a profoundly harmful effect on their mind. Any terrifying and painful experience can leave ...

A Nigerian professor who alerted the world to the re-emergence of mpox in his home country has warned that experts are working “blind” on the viral disease’s latest surge in Africa because of a lack of adequate surveillance systems. Dimie Ogoina, chair of the World Health Organization’s emergency committee of independent experts on mpox, said case numbers in an outbreak ...

A father and daughter who fraudulently claimed £65,000 in Covid loans have been given suspended jail sentences. Catherine Deegan, 43, used some of the money to rent a caravan, insolvency officials said. She was given a 10-month sentence, suspended for 18 months, while her father Gerard Deegan, 65, was given a 16-month jail sentence, also suspended for 18 months. Claire ...

A 67-year-old man has become the first person in the UK to try what doctors hope will be a revolutionary new treatment for lung cancer – a vaccine that tells the body how to fight and kill the disease. It uses the same mRNA technology as some Covid jabs to give instructions to the immune system. The early-stage trial in ...

The first drug to slow the progression of early stage Alzheimer’s will not be available on the NHS in England because health assessment body NICE says the benefits “are too small to justify the costs”. Lecanemab has been licensed for use in Great Britain by the medicines regulator, the MHRA, which means it can be prescribed privately. In trials, the ...