Long-term malnutrition might at first seem like a medical condition and its remedial measures easy, using balanced diet, appropriate for age, along

More than a century has passed since the March 24, 1882, announcement by Robert Koch that Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) bacteria cause

The risk of getting COVID-19 from food you cook yourself or from handling and consuming food from restaurants and takeout or drive-thru meals is thought to be very low. Currently, there is no evidence that food is associated with spreading the virus that causes COVID-19.

The risk for reinfection with SARS-CoV-2 is generally low, but it is higher among adults aged 65 and older, according to a population-based study from Denmark published in The Lancet.

In order to safeguard public health, the draft regulations on “Limiting Trans Fatty Acid in Food Products Regulations, 2021” has been uploaded for public consultation on the website of Bangladesh Food Safety Authority.

Researchers have developed a new statistical model that predicts which cities are more likely to become infectious disease hotspots, based both on interconnectivity between cities and the idea that some cities are more suitable environments for infection than others.

Donanemab is associated with a modest slowing of Alzheimer disease progression in patients with early symptomatic disease, according to an industry-conducted phase 2 trial published in the New England Journal of Medicine and presented at the International Conference on Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s Disease.

AstraZeneca issued a statement recently to reassure the public about the safety of its COVID-19 vaccine after several European Union (EU) countries halted its use over concerns about blood clots.

Vitamin D deficiency is one of the most prevalent micronutrient deficiencies in the world. It has emerged as a public health problem in many developing countries of the world including Bangladesh.

Advertisements for haemorrhoids, fistula and treatments for these diseases are a common sight glued on walls and pillars on our way back and forth home.

Germany, France and other European nations have announced plans to resume using AstraZeneca’s Covid-19 vaccine after EU and British regulators moved to shore up confidence in the shot, saying its benefits outweigh the risks.

Bangladesh is already self-sufficient in food and medicine production, and now wants to be self-sufficient in vaccine production as well, said Health Minister Zahid Maleque this evening during a visit to the vaccine plant of Incepta Pharmaceuticals Ltd at Jirabo area of Ashulia in Savar.

The following is a roundup of some of the latest scientific studies on the novel coronavirus and efforts to find treatments and vaccines for Covid-19, the illness caused by the virus.

A new UN report titled Direct and Indirect Effects of Covid-19 Pandemic and Response in South Asia claims that healthcare disruptions caused by Covid-19 may have led to an estimated 228,000 child deaths in South Asia.

Comments by the European Medicines Agency (EMA) on the AstraZeneca vaccine are “encouraging”, French President Emmanuel Macron and Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi said.

A Hong Kong scientist has developed a method to use machine learning and artificial intelligence to scan retinas of children as young as six to detect early autism or the risk of autism and hopes to develop a commercial product this year.

As there is no specific treatment so far to overcome the deadly disease of COVID-19, sufferers are only managed symptomatically and supportive. So how we can get rid of this disease?

COVID-19, which is caused by SARS-CoV-2, has snatched countless lives over the past one year. The pandemic is still in headway from the beginning of 2020 to present.

The American College of Gastroenterology (ACG) now suggests that colorectal cancer screening begin as early as age 45 in average-risk individuals. Previously, the ACG recommended screening this early only for African Americans.

Violence against women remains devastatingly pervasive and starts alarmingly young, shows new data from the World Health Organisation (WHO) and partners. Across their lifetime,