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News Hour: Exercise is a key element in the primary and secondary prevention of coronary artery disease. To learn about the impact of self-reported exercise on mortality in patients with stable coronary heart disease (CHD), researchers...

News Hour: RMG is the most important sector of the Bangladesh economy in terms of export proceeds, domestic value addition, and employment generation. It employs about four million workers in nearly 6000 factories and today around...

News Hour: An international coalition of cities is calling for an ambitious global goal to prevent more than 100 million new cases of diabetes by 2045. The target is set out alongside new research in a...

News Hour: The prevalence of U.S. adults with high cholesterol declined significantly between 1999-2000 and 2015-2016, achieving a long-term public health goal, according to data released on Thursday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s...

News Hour: Every day in 2016, 15,000 children died before their fifth birthday, 46 percent of them – or 7,000 babies – died in the first 28 days of life, according to a new UN report. Levels...

News Hour: Taking iron supplements every other day instead of daily is associated with increased iron absorption in women with low iron levels, suggests a small study in Lancet Haematology. Roughly 40 women with depleted iron...

News Hour: Worldwide, more than 25.5 million people a year (almost half of all deaths in 2015), including 2.5 million children, die with serious physical and psychological suffering as a result of disease, injury or illness...

News Hour: Despite rise, more children and adolescents remain underweight than obese globally, highlighting the need to improve food security to tackle, at the same time, under-nutrition and excessive weight gain. Worldwide, there has been a...

News Hour: A massive cholera immunization campaign started near Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, to protect newly arrived Rohingya and host communities from the life-threatening diarrheal disease. 900 000 doses of the vaccine have been mobilized and are...

News Hour: Medtronic plc, announced a strategic partnership between India Medtronic Private Limited, its wholly owned subsidiary in India, and Diabetic Association of Bangladesh to improve outcomes for patients using diabetes care technologies. The two entities...