Health

Several recent initiatives to facilitate Bangladeshi patients’ treatment in China have opened a new horizon in relations between the two countries, paving the way for a more intensified economic partnership. China extended a hand of friendship when India halted the issuing of visas to Bangladeshis after 5 August 2024, leaving many patients in distress. Seizing this opportunity, China strategically stepped ...

Countries agreed Friday to phase out the use of mercury-based dental amalgams in tooth fillings by 2034, in a move that will change dentistry around the world. At a conference in Geneva, signatories to a treaty aimed at protecting human health and the environment from mercury pollution called time on mercury amalgams. Nations agreed “to end the use of dental ...

NHS bosses are aiming to keep nearly all services running as resident doctors begin a five-day walkout in England. The strike – the 13th by British Medical Association (BMA) members in the long-running pay dispute – began at 07:00 GMT and lasts until 07:00 Wednesday. Resident doctors – the new name for junior doctors – are walking out of both ...

Researchers on Wednesday reported two promising new approaches to counteract malaria’s growing resistance to medication – one involving a new class of drugs. Switzerland-based Novartis released results of what it called a next-generation treatment. A study of its experimental drug in 12 African countries found it works well against the mosquito-borne parasite that causes malaria and seems to block spread. ...

Canada has lost its measles elimination status, said the Pan American Health Organization (Paho) on Monday, after failing to curb an outbreak of the virus for 12 consecutive months. Because Canada is no longer deemed measles-free, the Americas region as a whole has lost its elimination status, although individually the other countries are still considered to have stamped out the ...

A hospital trust has been fined more than £500,000 and a ward manager given a six-month suspended sentence over the death of a 22-year-old woman on a mental health unit. Alice Figueiredo was being treated at Goodmayes Hospital in Ilford when she took her own life using bin bags from a shared toilet, having previously made many similar attempts. The ...

At an advocacy meeting today, officials and health experts urged grassroots level public representatives to quickly identify obstetric fistula patients so that they can be brought under free treatment for their recovery. They made the call at the meeting on ‘Fistula Patient Identification’ organised by the Upazila Health and Family Planning Department at Bhurungamari Upazila Parishad conference room in Bhurungamari ...

Preliminary tests showed that ByHeart baby formula contained the type of bacteria that produces the toxin linked to a botulism outbreak, California health officials said. The outbreak has sickened at least 13 infants in 10 states. No deaths have been reported. “Consumers in possession of this product should stop using it immediately,” the California Department of Public Health said in ...

Lower back pain is a chronic condition that affects hundreds of millions of people around the world. A simple exercise could be a big help. You know the feeling. You bend down to tie your shoelaces and experience a sharp searing pain in the bottom of your back. Suddenly, you’ve become part of a startling statistic – you’ve joined the ...

Some widely used antibiotics have lost efficacy up to 97 per cent in Bangladesh because of the misuse of the lifesaving drugs due to unregulated sale, over-prescription, self-medication and incomplete dosing as laws and High Court verdict are hardly followed. A World Health Organization report found that several widely used antibiotics in Bangladesh are losing their effectiveness at alarming rates ...