Health

Daylight saving time is not just a hassle – it can also be bad for your health. The twice-yearly “spring forward, fall back” routine rattles our bodies’ daily cycles, known as circadian rhythms, with potentially harmful consequences. And a new study supports what many sleep experts have long argued: the solution is getting rid of daylight saving for good. That ...

A new study has revealed a disturbing surge in climate-induced health risks in Satkhira district, with sharp increases in maternal deaths, malnutrition and disease outbreaks linked to changing weather patterns and extreme events. The findings were presented at a dissemination workshop held in Dhaka, jointly organized by Action Against Hunger (ACF), Jahangirnagar University, Ministry of Disaster Management and Relief (MoDMR) ...

One of the cruellest and most devastating diseases – Huntington’s – has been successfully treated for the first time, say doctors. The disease runs through families, relentlessly kills brain cells and resembles a combination of dementia, Parkinson’s and motor neurone disease. An emotional research team became tearful as they described how data shows the disease was slowed by 75% in ...

A specialist from Singapore has arrived in Bangladesh to assist in the treatment of firefighters critically injured in Monday’s chemical warehouse blaze in Gazipur’s Tongi. Dr S.I. Zachak, who was also part of the foreign medical team during the Milestone School tragedy, landed at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport on Tuesday night and went directly to the National Institute of Burn ...

DORP Youth Forum organised a human chain protest in front of National Board of Revenue building in Dhaka on Monday, urging government to enact the new law without delay and free from the influence of tobacco companies. The advocates emphasised that the amendments are critical to achieving a tobacco-free Bangladesh and protecting future generations. They highlighted alarming statistics that 1,61,000 ...

Bangladesh on Sunday recorded its highest single-day dengue death toll this year, with 12 people losing their lives in the past 24 hours. During the same period, 740 patients were admitted to hospitals across the country, the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) said. The DGHS confirmed the figures cover 8:00 AM Saturday to 8:00 AM Sunday. Among the new ...

A panel of vaccine advisors named by Health Secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr on Friday said that COVID-19 shots should be administered only through shared decision-making with a healthcare provider, scrapping a broad recommendation but maintaining access through health insurance. The two-day meeting highlighted deep divisions over the future of the US immunisation schedules under Kennedy, who has long promoted ...

An increase in cases of a rare but fatal form of encephalitis has put authorities in India’s southern state of Kerala on alert, forcing them to step up testing to address what they say is a serious public health challenge. Kerala has reported around 69 cases of primary amoebic meningoencephalitis (PAM) since the beginning of this year including 19 deaths ...

Scientists have for the first time located the “mileage clock” inside a brain – by recording the brain activity of running rats. Letting them loose inside a small, rat-sized arena, the researchers recorded from a part of their brains that is known to be important in navigation and memory. They found that cells there “fired” in a pattern that looked ...

A Dhaka court on Thursday placed controversial health sector contractor Motazzerul Islam Mithu on a five-day remand in a case filed by the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) over amassing illegal wealth worth Tk 75.8 crore. Dhaka Metropolitan Senior Special Judge Md Sabbir Foyez passed the order following a 10-day remand plea by the ACC, while the defence sought bail and cancellation ...