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The World Health Organization holds its first summit on traditional medicine on Thursday, with warnings that treatments rooted in natural products can be effective alternative healthcare only if scientifically proven. Traditional medicines are a “first port of call for millions of people worldwide”, the UN health agency said, with the talks in India bringing together policymakers and academics aiming to ...

Scientists have reconstructed Pink Floyd’s Another Brick in the Wall by eavesdropping on people’s brainwaves – the first time a recognisable song has been decoded from recordings of electrical brain activity. The hope is that doing so could ultimately help to restore the musicality of natural speech in patients who struggle to communicate because of disabling neurological conditions such as ...

With the worsening dengue situation in the country, the numbers of dengue patients and deaths have been increasing day by day while the actual number of dengue patients of the country is 4-5 times higher than the official projection delivered by the health directorate. A large number of dengue patients remained out of the official data of the government as ...

The US Food and Drug Administration on Monday granted accelerated approval to Pfizer’s (PFE.N) therapy for treating patients with a type of blood cancer that is difficult to treat, the company said. The health regulator’s decision allows use of the therapy, branded as Elrexfio, in patients with multiple myeloma that is hard to treat or has come back after receiving ...

The humid climate during the monsoon months creates an ideal habitat for germs and viruses to spread conjunctivitis, commonly known as pink eye. Against the backdrop of this upsurge in cases of conjunctivitis, the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) in Delhi is consistently recording around 100 patients daily. In July, Maharashtra witnessed an astonishing surge of 87,761 conjunctivitis ...

Eighteen more people died of dengue in the country in the last 24 hours. Till date, Bangladesh counted some 416 deaths from the mosquito-borne disease this year. Besides, some 2,480 people were hospitalised with dengue infection in the same period of time. The latest information on dengue was learnt from the data of Emergency Operation Centre and Control Room of ...

A significant surge in dengue fever cases has gripped Bangladesh, the UN World Health Organization (WHO) reported on Friday (Aug 11), calling for efforts to control the mosquito vector population and minimize individual exposure such as using mosquito repellents and wearing long-sleeved clothes. The outbreak, which escalated rapidly since late June, has seen a total of 80,074 confirmed cases and ...

The World Health Organisation (WHO) has urged Bangladesh authorities to take swift action as dengue cases are rising by the day. A significant surge in dengue fever cases has gripped Bangladesh, the UN World Health Organization (WHO) reported on Friday, calling for efforts to control the mosquito vector population and minimize individual exposure such as using mosquito repellents and wearing ...

The number of new Covid-19 cases reported worldwide rose by 80 percent in the last month, the World Health Organization said on Friday, days after designating a new “variant of interest”. The WHO declared in May that Covid is no longer a global health emergency, but has warned that the virus will continue to circulate and mutate, causing occasional spikes ...

As the dengue onslaught continues, demand for liquid saline in hospitals has increased exponentially, reaching 10-12 times (over 1000%) the usual requirement, leading authorities to fear an imminent shortage in supply. Several medical institutions in Dhaka, including Suhrawardy Medical College Hospital, Mugda Medical College and Hospital, Dhaka Medical College Hospital, Sir Salimullah Medical College, and Institute of Child and Mother ...