Health

A persistent companion during weather changes and impending winters, a sore throat can be uncomfortable, accompanied by the sensation of a lump in your throat leading to hoarseness, pain, inflammation, and difficulty swallowing or drinking comfortably. While the initial inclination might be to resort to modern medication, Ayurveda aims to eliminate the issue at its source. Ayurveda attributes sore throat ...

Criminal Investigation Department (CID) have arrested nine persons, including five doctors, in connection with a question paper leak in the admission tests for the country’s government and private medical colleges. They were arrested from Dhaka, Dinajpur and Nilphamari districts in separate drives from Monday to Wednesday. The arrested are Singra union parishad chairman Sazzad Hossain of Dinajpur’s Ghoraghat, Dr Faisal ...

Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) has advised countrymen to refrain from drinking raw date juice to prevent Nipah-virus related deaths. Nipah virus causes severe disease and the outbreak of the Nipah virus related disease spreads sharply during the winter season, according to a press release signed by deputy programme manager Dr SM Golam Kausar. “Nipah virus spreads through bat ...

Blood clots in the brain or the lungs might explain some common symptoms of “long Covid”, including brain fog and fatigue, a UK study suggests. In the study, of 1,837 people admitted to hospital because of Covid, researchers say two blood proteins point to clots being one cause, reports BBC. It is thought 16 per cent of such patients have ...

Similar to doing an MOT on a car, scientists believe they can run a blood test to check how fast a person’s internal organs are ageing, and even predict which ones might soon fail. The Stanford University team say they can monitor 11 major body parts, including the heart, brain and lungs, reports BBC. They tried it on thousands of ...

A one-day vitamin A plus campaign kicked off across the country on Tuesday with an aim to feed the capsules to 2.20 crore children. Children aged 6-11 months will be fed blue color capsules while children aged 12-59 months will be administered red color capsules. A total of 5,26,240 children in six upazilas of Dhaka district will get the capsules, ...

The vitamin ‘A’ capsule campaign will commence on Tuesday (12 December) where the government planned to feed the capsules to 2.20 crore children across the country. The children will be fed two types of capsules while the children aged between 6-11 months will get blue color capsules and aged between 12-59 months red color capsules. The health ministry sources said ...

World Health Organization chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on Sunday that the war between Israel and Hamas is having a catastrophic impact on health in the Gaza Strip. “The impact of the conflict on health is catastrophic” and health workers are doing an impossible job in unimaginable conditions, the UN health agency’s director-general told the opening of a WHO executive ...

Exercise is good for people with wear-and-tear joint arthritis and should be a “core treatment”, new draft guidelines for the NHS advise. It may hurt to begin with, but can then ease pain and help individuals with osteoarthritis stay supple, healthy and slim, says the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE). Scans aren’t needed to diagnose it and ...

A teenage girl’s incurable cancer has been cleared from her body in the first use of a revolutionary new type of medicine. All other treatments for Alyssa’s leukaemia had failed, reports BBC. So doctors at Great Ormond Street Hospital used “base editing” to perform a feat of biological engineering to build her a new living drug. Six months later the ...