Health

Helen McLaughlin says she was suffering so much that she would burn herself with a hot bottle “just because that was a nicer pain than the one that I was in”. But when her medical scans...

Stool tests might provide a useful way to help doctors spot early pancreatic cancer, say researchers. They have been trialling the concept in a study with 136 volunteers. The findings, described in the journal Gut, suggest...

Pfizer stated on Wednesday that it has begun a clinical trial of Paxlovid, a Covid antiviral medicine, in non-hospitalized pediatric patients aged 6 to 17. The Covid patients who will be evaluated will have a verified,...

A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) has been signed between WaterAid Bangladesh and City Group recently where WaterAid will provide technical support to access safe and adequate water supply, sanitation and hygiene services for the tea pickers....

The International Organization for Migration (IOM) and Yale School of Public Health (YSPH) are teaming up to publish a series of articles capturing best ethical, technical, and contextual data responsibility practices in humanitarian response, human development,...

Since the countrywide immunization campaign began on February 7, last year, a total of 12,47,00000 persons have received COVID-19 vaccinations with single, dual, or booster doses. “Expansion of vaccination is the most effective remedy to rein...

The United Kingdom (UK) has donated another one million doses of Oxford-AstraZeneca (AZ) vaccine to Bangladesh bilaterally. The UK donated fresh consignment of jabs arrived here on February 23, a British High Commission press release said...

The number of children estimated to have experienced the death of a parent or caregiver as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic has surged to more than 5.2 million globally, according to a new modelling study...

Authorities in Hong Kong have hinted that they may impose a Chinese-style hard lockdown that limits people to their homes, with the city’s zero-Covid plan in shambles and bodies stacking up in hospitals. Two years of...

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson to announce an end to all pandemic legal curbs in England, insisting it is time to move on despite political opposition and unease from the UN’s health agency. Two years after...