Health

A visiting Chinese medical team from Wuhan Third Hospital has continued its collaborative efforts with Bangladeshi healthcare professionals at National Institute of Burns and Plastic Surgery. During their ongoing visit, the Chinese doctors and nurses reaffirmed their commitment to supporting Bangladesh in treating the injured, expressing a willingness to assist in every possible way, according to a statement from Chinese ...

People who walk 7,000 steps a day have a dramatically lower risk of a broad range of serious health problems, the largest review of the evidence yet said Thursday. The most widely promoted target for people tracking their number of steps is 10,000 — but that figure reportedly originally came from a 1960s marketing campaign for a Japanese pedometer. To ...

Approximately 60,000 appointments across London will be impacted by a five-day doctors’ strike starting on Friday, the medical director for NHS London has said. The British Medical Association (BMA) strike follows a pay dispute with the government over resident doctors – the new name for junior doctors. NHS London said cancer and heart surgeries were being prioritised, however care which ...

A 90-year-old man has died of Covid-19 at Jalalabad Ragib-Rabeya Medical College and Hospital in Sylhet. Dr Md Anisur Rahman, divisional director of health for Sylhet, confirmed the death today, saying it was the third Covid-19 fatality reported in the division this year. “Despite the recent deaths, the overall Covid-19 situation remains under control,” he said. According to the daily ...

An emergency Chinese medical team arrives on Thursday evening to support treatment for the injured of Monday’s tragic Airforce fighter crash in the city. “At the request of the interim government of Bangladesh, the emergency medical team consisting of five burn-specialist Chinese doctors and nurses will arrive in Dhaka on the evening of 24th July,” said a Chinese embassy press ...

Adults who consume more dietary copper tend to perform better on cognitive tests, including memory, attention and language, research has found. In a study of more than 2,400 Americans aged 60 and above, those eating roughly 1.4mg of copper a day scored higher on a number of cognitive assessments than those consuming less than 0.8mg. Copper, though needed in only ...

A man in his 30s, having a very sedentary lifestyle, wakes up in the morning only to find that there is a creepy pain in his abdomen. Even in layperson’s language, abdominal pain may mean many things. Appendicitis, gastroenteritis, gall bladder- whatnot! He and his family members kept guessing until the pain rose beyond the tolerance level. It was a ...

In 64 people, scientists in Turkey measured changes in the cornea’s inner layer, called the endothelium, before taking the first Pfizer dose and two months after receiving the second. Results revealed that taking both doses of the vaccine led to thicker corneas, fewer endothelial cells in the eye and more variation in size of these specialized cells that form the ...

The number of mpox cases in Guinea since an outbreak was first detected has passed 200, health officials told AFP Friday, with several nearby countries witnessing recent increases in infections. Last month World Health Organisation director Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said the virus remains an international health emergency amid the rise in west Africa. Guinea has now recorded 206 total cases, ...

Thousands of premature babies in the UK can now be protected against a common winter virus which can cause a dangerous lung infection, and sometimes kill. The injection will provide them “with a protective bubble” against RSV (respiratory syncytial virus) in time for the colder months, NHS medics said. Most babies are protected via vaccination late in pregnancy, but babies ...