Health

Jihan Ara, aged 38, discovered in 2020 that she had developed resistance to 14 antibiotics following a COVID-19 infection. Medical professionals informed her that this resistance was due to incomplete courses or overdoses of the antibiotics prescribed. Currently, only a few antibiotics remain effective in her system. Meanwhile, six-year-old Afrin Naba frequently suffers from fever and colds. Her mother, Monira ...

Humanity is hitting the upper limit of life expectancy, according to a new study. Advances in medical technology and genetic research – not to mention larger numbers of people making it to age 100 – are not translating into marked jumps in lifespan overall, according to researchers who found shrinking longevity increases in countries with the longest-living populations. “We have ...

Scientists Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun won the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for the discovery of microRNA and its role in gene regulation, the award-giving body said on Monday. The winners for medicine are selected by the Nobel Assembly of Sweden’s Karolinska Institute medical university and receive a prize sum of 11 million Swedish crowns ($1.1 million).

As the Democratic Republic of Congo launches a vaccination campaign amid a flare-up of the sometimes deadly illness mpox, Agence France-Presse (AFP) looks at how the virus developed. Several mpox epidemics have broken out, mainly in Africa, since it first emerged in humans in 1970. The disease, originally named monkeypox, spreads through close physical contact with infected people or animals, ...

Five people died of dengue in the country in the last 24 hours till Saturday morning, raising the death toll from the mosquito-borne disease to 182 this year. According to the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS), a total of 927 people were hospitalized with the viral fever during the period. Among the deceased, two were reported Dhaka South City ...

The health secretary has urged GPs in England to end collective action and warned it will “only punish patients”. Addressing the Royal College of GPs conference in Liverpool, Wes Streeting said he understands why doctors “wanted to give the previous government a kicking”. But he asked them not to “shut your doors to patients” and instead “work with us to ...

The number of adults in England to have started vaping despite never having been regular smokers has reached one million, scientists estimate. This is a sharp increase on 2020, with disposable vapes having been available since 2021. The rise is driven mostly by young adults – with about one out of every seven 18-24-year-olds who never regularly smoked now using ...

A total of 32,082 dengue cases and 166 deaths have been reported in the first nine months of 2024, according to the Directorate General of Health Services. Dengue is usually in the news at this time of year when cases are at their highest, but how bad are 2024’s numbers compared to previous years? In terms of case numbers, 32,082 ...

Five dengue patients died while 1,152 more people hospitalized with the viral fever across the country in the last 24 hours till Monday morning. According to the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS), with the new fatalities, the death toll from the mosquito-borne disease rose to 163 this year. Among the new patients, 219 from Dhaka division (out of city ...

There needs to be an independent review of physician and anaesthesia associates (PAs and AAs) in England, the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges says. The group, which brings together leading doctors and surgeons, has been broadly supportive of the rollout of these roles which assist health care teams. But it said given the “increasingly acrimonious and destructive debate”, fuelled by ...