Health

The government is planning one of the toughest smoking laws in the world, which would effectively ban it. Smoking has been on the decline for two decades. In fact, more young people now vape than smoke tobacco. But one recent estimates suggests that about 350 young people still take up smoking each day in the UK. Among 15-year-olds, nearly one ...

A new device to help reduce the time cancer patients spend in hospital has been given regulatory approval. The Liberty allows patients to take blood tests – and upload the results – at home, and without supervision. Its users say it allows them to cut down on draining hospital visits, while clinicians suggest it could boost NHS productivity. After being ...

Dr. Mohammad Shawkat Akbar, Chairman of Bangladesh Atomic Energy Commission and Managing Director of NPCBL, has been elected as the President of Bangladesh Physical Society at the Annual General Meeting of the Society this evening (11th May 2024). Dr. Akbar is also awarded as the Fellow of Bangladesh Physical Society for his outstanding contribution to the cause of Physics. Eminent ...

A leading vaccine expert says he is “very worried” by the large increase in whooping cough cases which have led to the deaths of five babies in England this year. Professor Sir Andrew Pollard, head of the UK’s vaccine committee, said the youngest were at greatest risk and more pregnant women should be vaccinated. If the disease continues to spread, ...

A group of researchers from Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden, University of Freiburg and the Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience have created an exceptionally small implant, with electrodes the size of a single neuron, aimed at restoring sight for individuals who are blind. The concept of vision implants originated in the 1990s, primarily targeting patients with eye damage but with ...

The World Health Organization (WHO) says it has only three days of fuel for its medical operations in southern Gaza, with shortages already forcing one of three remaining hospitals in the city of Rafah to shut down. The Rafah border crossing with Egypt has been closed since Israel’s military took control of the Palestinian side early Tuesday, blocking the entry of desperately ...

No side-effects of AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine has so far been found in Bangladesh, said Health and Family Welfare Minister Dr Samanta Lal Sen on Wednesday (May 8). The health minister stated it while replying to a question of a reporter after attending a seminar on how to stregthen the vaccination programmes to ensure universal health care at CIRDAP Auditorium in ...

AstraZeneca said on Tuesday it had initiated the worldwide withdrawal of its Covid-19 vaccine due to a “surplus of available updated vaccines” since the pandemic. The company also said it would proceed to withdraw the vaccine Vaxzevria’s marketing authorizations within Europe. “As multiple, variant Covid-19 vaccines have since been developed there is a surplus of available updated vaccines,” the company ...

Zahid Maleque, member of parliament and former health minister, has been included in the list of 100 influential persons, who contributed to the health sector, published by Time Magazine, a US-based news media. The list was published on May 2. In its report, the magazine said, “Zahid Maleque’s five years as Minister of Health and Family Welfare weren’t without controversy. ...

The health ministry in Hamas-run Gaza said Monday that at least 34,735 people have been killed in the Palestinian territory during almost seven months of war between Israel and Hamas. The tally includes at least 52 deaths in the past 24 hours, a ministry statement said, adding that 78,108 people have been wounded in the Gaza Strip since the war ...