Health

All women should get mammogram screening for breast cancer starting from age 40, rather than 50, an influential US health body announced Tuesday, a move it said could save thousands of lives. Breast cancer is the second most common cancer and the second most common cause of cancer death for women in the United States, killing around 42,000 women and ...

There is little evidence that most antidepressants are effective against chronic pain, the largest study conducted on the subject said on Wednesday. However, the British researchers who carried out the review emphasised that patients should not stop taking their current medication, advising them to talk to their doctors instead, AFP reports. Chronic pain, or any kind of pain that lasts ...

Physical activity helps maintain significant weight loss more effectively than diet, according to a recent study from the University of Colorado Anschutz Health and Wellness Centre (AHWC) at the CU Anschutz Medical Campus. The study, published in the March issue of Obesity, was selected as the Editor’s Choice article. “This study addresses the difficult question of why so many people ...

Providing simple and cheap healthcare measures to pregnant women — such as offering aspirin — could prevent more than a million babies from being stillborn or dying as newborns in developing countries every year, new research said on Tuesday. An international team of researchers also estimated that one quarter of the world’s babies are born either premature or underweight, adding ...

Diabetes is one of the rapidly growing global diseases. The number of people having diabetes has grown from 108 million in 1980 to 422 million in 2014. Diabetes is the major cause of blindness, kidney failure, heart issue, and lower limb amputation. In today’s busy life meanwhile our bingeing on unhealthy, sugary and processed food has immensely contributed to increase ...

Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva on Friday urged people to continue to get COVID-19 vaccines, though the World Health Organization declared the COVID-19 pandemic no longer a Public Health Emergency of International Concern. “Despite the end of the state of emergency, the pandemic is not over yet. Take the booster doses and make sure your vaccination schedule is ...

Twenty three fresh Covid-19 cases were reported across the country in the 24 hours till Sunday morning, according to the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) With the new numbers, the country’s total caseload rose to 2,038,338. The daily case test positivity dropped to 2.07 per cent from Saturday’s 2.96 per cent as 1,111 samples were tested. However, the official ...

As many as 85,294 persons have been screened in the Active Case Finding (ACF) for tuberculosis in the district Kinnaur of Himachal Pradesh. An official spokesperson said here on Saturday that the state government is determined to eradicate tuberculosis from Himachal Pradesh by the year 2025, and to achieve this target, the District Health Department Kinnaur is effectively implementing TB ...

Prachin Chikitsa (Prachi), a platform of alternative medicine practitioners, on Saturday formed national executive committee nominating Saleh Muhammd Abdur Rahman as president. The organisation also nominated Kamruzzaman and Abdul Matin as general secretaries in the 71-member national executive committee for next two years, said a press release. Prachi national standing committee chairman Muhammad Shafiqur Rahman, members Mokhlesur Rahman and Atikur ...

The World Health Organization (WHO) said on Friday that the COVID-19 pandemic no longer constitutes a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC), the WHO’s highest alert level, reports Xinhua. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, director-general of WHO, made the announcement at a virtual press conference from Geneva. The WHO first gave COVID-19 its highest level of alert on Jan 30, 2020, ...