Rehabilitation of dementia by occupational therapy

Mrs. X is a 62 years old dementia patient. She is suffering from this for two years. Her problem has increased in this pandemic.
29 August 2020, 18:00 PM

Post COVID-19 recovery care

For those who have contracted COVID-19, the road to recovery can be like looking down the barrel.
29 August 2020, 18:00 PM

COVID-19: the biggest psychological experiment on urban population

The COVID-19 pandemic has not only affected us physically but also mentally, especially the urban population. Although there is a broad consensus among academicians about psychological care following disasters and major incidents, still people are going through countless psychological issues in adjusting to the current lifestyle and fear of the disease.
22 August 2020, 18:00 PM

2 in 5 schools lack basic handwashing facilities prior to COVID-19 pandemic

As schools worldwide struggle with reopening, the latest data from the WHO/UNICEF Joint Monitoring Programme (JMP) reveal that 43% of schools around the world lacked access to basic handwashing with soap and water in 2019 – a key condition for schools to be able to operate safely during the COVID-19 pandemic.
22 August 2020, 18:00 PM

Honey outperforms usual care for upper respiratory tract infections

Honey is better than many common remedies for upper respiratory tract infections, according to a systematic review and meta-analysis in BMJ Evidence Based Medicine.
22 August 2020, 18:00 PM

Physical & psychosocial problems after recovery from COVID-19

Coronavirus infection can damage the entire body and mind, not just the respiratory system. Global research confirms that SARS-CoV-2 can affect the brain, nerves, cardiovascular system, kidneys, and liver, individually or in combination.
22 August 2020, 18:00 PM

Weight matters: obesity and COVID-19

The COVID-19 pandemic is presenting unprecedented challenges around the world. Apart from the health risks of the coronavirus, the food we eat, the way we work and how physically active we are having all been changed and impacted in ways hardly imaginable only a few months ago.
22 August 2020, 18:00 PM

Women have been telling us what they want from their health services – during and after the COVID-19 pandemic, the world must start listening

In just six months the COVID-19 pandemic has travelled the world, profoundly testing the resilience of even the most advanced health systems, and causing massive shocks to national economies. It has also deepened systematic and structural racial, ethnic and gender inequities everywhere.
22 August 2020, 18:00 PM

COVID-19: No careless loss or death - prevention is possible

Bangladesh is a country where an estimated 3.05 physicians per 10,000 population and 1.07 nurses per 10,000 population existed in 2011 (estimates based on MoHFW HRD 2011).
22 August 2020, 18:00 PM

CP therapy for severe COVID-19

COVID-19 continues to spread worldwide with rising positive cases and deaths. Researchers are on the race to develop antidotes for the SARS-COV-2 virus.
15 August 2020, 18:00 PM

Public health considerations while resuming international travel

Many countries halted some or all international travel since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic but now have plans to re-open travel. Here are some key considerations for national health authorities when considering the gradual return to international travel operations.
15 August 2020, 18:00 PM

Compression therapy effective in preventing recurrent leg cellulitis

Compression therapy seems to prevent recurrent leg cellulitis better than conservative management, according to a trial in the New England Journal of Medicine.
15 August 2020, 18:00 PM

Cardiology group recommends diabetes drugs for CV prevention

New guidance from the American College of Cardiology suggests that for patients with diabetes and high cardiovascular (CV) risk, clinicians should consider prescribing sodium-glucose cotransporter 2 (SGLT2) inhibitors or glucagon-like peptide 1 (GLP-1) receptor agonists expressly to reduce CV risk.
15 August 2020, 18:00 PM

Coronavirus transmission risk increases along wildlife supply chains

Coronaviruses were detected in a high proportion of bats and rodents in Vietnam from 2013 to 2014, with an increasing proportion of positive samples found along the wildlife supply chain from traders to large markets to restaurants, according to a study published recently in PLOS ONE by Amanda Fine of the Wildlife Conservation Society and colleagues.
15 August 2020, 18:00 PM

Vietnam gifts medical supplies worth $30,000 to Bangladesh

The Vietnamese government has presented Bangladesh with medical supplies worth $30,000 to help combat the Covid-19 pandemic.
15 August 2020, 09:20 AM

43% schools lacked basic handwashing facilities before pandemic: Unicef, WHO

Some 43 percent of schools around the world lacked access to basic handwashing with soap and water -- a key condition for schools to operate safely amid the Covid-19 pandemic -- in 2019.
13 August 2020, 14:40 PM

Each division to get cancer hospital by 2022: Health minister

The government will build a 15-storey cancer hospital in each of the eight divisions within the next two years, says Health and Family Welfare Minister Zahid Maleque.
13 August 2020, 13:47 PM

Dr Meerjady made additional director general of DGHS

Dr Meerjady Sabrina Flora has been made additional director general (planning and development) of the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).
13 August 2020, 11:12 AM

40% dementia cases could be prevented or delayed!

Modifying 12 risk factors over the lifecourse could delay or prevent 40% of dementia cases, according to an update to The Lancet Commission on dementia prevention, intervention, and care, which was presented at the Alzheimer’s Association International Conference (AAIC 2020).
8 August 2020, 18:00 PM

Acute depression, stress, anxiety higher during peak of the pandemic

Rates of elevated psychological distress, including depression and anxiety symptoms, were found among Australian adults during the peak of the COVID-19 outbreak in Australia, according to a new study published in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by Jill Newby of the University of New South Wales at the Black Dog Institute, Sydney, Australia, and colleagues.
8 August 2020, 18:00 PM