Health

News Hour: Research presented at this year’s European Respiratory Society (ERS) International Congress in London, UK shows that exposure to antibiotics early in life is related to increased risk of developing allergies later in life. The...

News Hour: The International Youth Alliance for Family Planning (IYAFP) and SERAC-Bangladesh, with the support from EngenderHealth, Ipas, and Family Planning Association of Bangladesh (FPAB) organized the Bangladesh 1st National Youth Conference on Family Planning (BNYCFP...

News Hour: A year’s course of benralizumab injections has led to a significant decrease in the frequency of asthma exacerbations – cutting the rate of exacerbations by a third to a half compared with placebo among...

News Hour: Childhood body mass index (BMI) has been associated with hospital admissions for asthma in early adulthood, with overweight BMI measures increasing the risk of admission in women and underweight BMI measures increasing the risk in...

News Hour: The World Federation of Societies of Anaesthesiologists (WFSA) is calling for global support for its initiative to protect ketamine’s status as an essential medicine for anaesthesia and pain relief, in the face of efforts...

News Hour: People with the most common type of lung cancer whose disease has spread to the brain could be spared potentially harmful whole brain radiotherapy, according to new research published in The Lancet. The phase...

News Hour: New community and environmentally-based approaches tested in the state of Yucatan in Mexico are helping to reduce vector-borne disease transmission. Designed around Chagas disease and dengue, they are also useful to prevent Zika and...

News Hour: Dengue is a major public health problem throughout Latin America, particularly in cities. At the same time, Chagas disease is persisting and re-emerging in different rural ecological zones of the continent, notably in the...

News Hour: Benicio Segundo is the village elder in Palmarito, a Bolivian community of the Guarani ethnic group. Here a simple farming lifestyle has not changed much in hundreds of years. Water is still collected and...

News Hour: Zika virus disease is caused by a viral ribonucleic acid (RNA) virus, which is transmitted to humans by mosquitoes of the Aedes aegypti species. Around 80% of infections are asymptomatic. Symptomatic infections are characterized by...