Health

Tuberculosis (TB) remains a global health and in Bangladesh, this vulnerability is exacerbated by delayed diagnoses, malnutrition, and limited access to healthcare. To address TB, especially among children, the icddr,b-led USAID’s Alliance for Combating Tuberculosis in Bangladesh (ACTB) Activity, in partnership with Prothom Alo, launched the Health Olympiad 2024 in May as a student engagement initiative. The event concluded on ...

Around nine lakh juvenile girls will be given Human Papillomavirus (HPV) vaccines aimed at protecting them from being attacked with various diseases, particularly cervical cancer, in Rajshahi division. The girls aged between 10 to 14 years will be given the vaccines during the forthcoming 18-day HPV vaccination campaign in Rajshahi City Corporation (RCC) and eight districts under the division from ...

More than a thousand patients with advanced breast cancer are being denied a drug that can keep them alive for longer. It is already available in 19 countries in Europe – including in Scotland – but not in the rest of the UK. Jeannie Ambrose is warm and funny. But beneath the surface, she is raging. She was diagnosed with ...

Eight more dengue patients died in the last 24 hours till Thursday morning, raising the death toll from the mosquito- borne disease to 234. Besides, a total of 1,100 people were admitted to hospitals across the country with the viral fever during the period, according to the daily update of Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS). Among the deceased, four ...

An urgent review is needed to make sure people in England can get weight loss jabs such as Wegovy and Mounjaro on the NHS, top experts warn. It comes a day after the prime minister said such injections could boost Britain’s economy by getting obese unemployed people “back into work”. More than 200 doctors and specialists have now written to ...

Proposals to give weight loss jabs to unemployed people living with obesity could be “very important” for our economy and health, the prime minister has told the BBC. Sir Keir Starmer said he acknowledged that more money was needed for the NHS, and the government also needed to “think differently” to ease pressure on the health system. His comments came ...

The Seventy Seventh Regional Committee Session of WHO South-East Asia wrapped up with Member States adopting resolutions setting new targets for measles and rubella elimination, expanding the corpus of the regional health emergency fund and committing to adolescent responsive health systems. “While regionally, we have made good progress on elimination of measles and rubella, the COVID-19 pandemic did disrupt this ...

When I was in class nine, a friend of mine spoke to me about her irregular menstruation cycle; she lamented how her periods almost lasted a month. At the time, I couldn’t fully grasp the depths of her plight. I, with my textbook 28-day cycle, assumed such things were impossibilities, just another bizarre quirk of adolescence. It wasn’t until years ...

On 2 March 2022, a milestone in Bangladesh’s medical history was set when a 42-year-old woman, Tasnova Mostafiz Nova, became the first person in the country to receive an artificial heart. Although the event received significant media coverage at the time, Tasnova herself did not appear before the public. However, nearly two and a half years later, Tasnova and her ...

One in five people in the country, most of whom are over 35, have presbyopia, or the inability to see objects up close, said a new study. The study conducted by BRAC and VisionSpring also shows that the silent epidemic also has significant economic consequences. Moreover, treatable blindness remains a major challenge, with nearly 1% of people over 40 at ...