Health

A decade after a landmark study proved that feeding peanut products to young babies couldprevent development of life-threatening allergies, new research finds the change has made a big difference in the real world. About 60,000 children have avoided developing peanut allergies after guidance first issued in 2015 upended medical practice by recommending introducing the allergen to infants starting as early ...

Thousands of people have signed a petition to keep specialist blood cancer care at a south London hospital. The 12-bed ward at Princess Royal University Hospital (PRUH) in Orpington currently provides haematology inpatient cancer care. But the NHS trust which runs the hospital, King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, last month announced plans to have that provision absorbed by one ...

Nurse Rod Salaysay works with all kinds of instruments in the hospital: a thermometer, a stethoscope and sometimes his guitar and ukulele. In the recovery unit of UC San Diego Health, Salaysay helps patients manage pain after surgery. Along with medications, he offers tunes on request and sometimes sings. His repertoire ranges from folk songs in English and Spanish to ...

Bangladesh Water Works Association (BWWA) launched the 2nd Sustainable Water Management Expo 2025, uniting industry experts and organisations to combat the nation’s pressing water and sanitation challenges through cutting-edge solutions. On Thursday morning, the three-day event, running until 18 October, was inaugurated at the capital’s International Convention City Bashundhara. Expo features 28 stalls displaying sustainable water, wastewater and environmental management ...

The World Health Organization called Tuesday for urgently scaling up care for neurological conditions, which impact more than three billion people globally, insisting many could be prevented or treated with the right services. Neurological conditions affect more than 40 percent of the global population, while disorders claim more than 11 million lives each year, the WHO said. The top 10 ...

The sixth edition of Bangladesh International Medical Students’ Scientific Congress (BIMSCON 2025) concluded in the capital on Saturday, spotlighting a new generation of medical students determined to shape the nation’s healthcare transformation through innovation, research, and policy engagement. Held on October 10–11 at International Mother Language Institute, the two-day congress brought together more than 300 participants from over 20 medical ...

Healthy lifestyle is crucial to prevent cancer and other chronic diseases, Health and Family Welfare Adviser Nurjahan Begum said on Monday. “The number of cancer patients in our country is increasing every day including cases of breast cancer. We must change our food habits and become more health-conscious,” she said while speaking at an event marking Breast Cancer Awareness Day ...

The nationwide month-long “Typhoid Vaccination Campaign-2025” began today, with the aim of providing Typhoid Conjugate Vaccine (TCV) free of cost to over five crore children. Under the campaign, the government will administer vaccines to children from pre-primary to class nine (or equivalent) at schools and at community-level EPI centres till November 13. To receive the vaccine, parents or guardians must ...

A total of 220 people have, so far, died from dengue this year. ATM Saiful Islam, additional secretary of the Health Services Division, came up with this information on Thursday at a press briefing on the ‘Typhoid Vaccination Campaign-2025’.Buy vitamins and supplements The number of dengue cases is higher than last year, the mortality rate is lower, said Director General ...

Professor Dr Md Sayedur Rahman, Special Assistant to Chief Adviser (CA) of Interim Government, said outdated medical education risks technological obsolescence. He said this during his chief guest address at Bangladesh International Medical Students’ Scientific Congress (BIMSSCON) 6th edition on Friday morning at International Mother Language Institute in the capital. The Daily Observer partnered with the event themed ‘Transforming Healthcare: ...