Enhanced efforts, renewed commitment, and an inclusive approach is needed to end the scourge of leprosy which continues to afflict thousands of people every year, the majority of them in the WHO South-East Asia Region. Leprosy affected 212 000 more people globally in 2015. Of them 60

DHAKA: Girls start to see themselves as less innately talented than boys do when they are only six years old. A group of US researchers has said this after conducting the study on 400 children, in the journal Science, that initially found both five-year-old boys and girls thought their

DHAKA: Health officials in Brazil say there has been a sharp rise in the cases of yellow fever in the country. They said there had been 63 confirmed cases of the mosquito-borne illness so far this year, up from seven in the whole of 2016. Most of the cases have been in rural areas

DHAKA: Artificial intelligence can identify skin cancer in photographs with the same accuracy as trained doctors. The Stanford University team said the findings were “incredibly exciting” and would now be tested in clinics. Eventually, they believe using AI could revolutionize

DHAKA: Bread, chips and potatoes should be cooked to a golden yellow colour, rather than brown, to reduce our intake of a chemical which could cause cancer, government food scientists are warning. Acrylamide is produced when starchy foods are roasted, fried or grilled for too long at

DHAKA: Salim (anonymous) can not remember how long ago he got injected pethidine for the first time. He has been visiting hospital over the last two years with breaks. Sometimes, he went away and come back again. He gets his treatment there, take medicine and move again. Senior nurse

DHAKA: Health and Family Welfare Minister Mohammed Nasim has ordered to constitute two probe bodies over alleged irregularities and mismanagement in two government hospitals in Dhaka. He also directed the authorities to order the committees to submit reports within seven working days.

DHAKA: A seminar was held in Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University (BSMMU) on Thursday (January 19) to create awareness of cervical and breast cancer screening service. Director General of Health Services Dr. Abul Kalam Azad attended the program as special guest while professor

DHAKA: Terminal breast cancer patients have spoken of their distress after learning that a life-extending drug they had been told would be available to them looks set to be withdrawn. Advisory body NICE is reviewing drugs made available through the old cancer drugs fund, and has

DHAKA: The deadly spread of cancer around the body has been cut by three-quarters in animal experiments, say scientists. Tumors can ‘seed’ themselves elsewhere in the body and this process is behind 90 percent of cancer deaths. The mouse study, published in Nature, showed

DHAKA: People who live near major roads have higher rates of dementia, research published in the Lancet suggests. As many as 11% of dementia cases in people living within 50 meter of a major road could be down to traffic, the study suggests, reports the BBC. The researchers, who

DHAKA: Eating processed meat might make asthma symptoms worse, say researchers. Consuming more than four portions a week is a risk, suggests the study of nearly 1,000 French people, published in the journal Thorax, reports BBC. The researchers believe it could be a preservative

DHAKA: Surgeons have described a new treatment for early stage prostate cancer as “truly transformative”.   The approach, tested across Europe, uses lasers and a drug made from deep sea bacteria to eliminate tumors, but without causing severe side effects, reports BBC.

DHAKA: Babies made from two women and one man have been approved by the UK's fertility regulator. The historic and controversial move is to prevent children being born with deadly genetic diseases, reports BBC. Doctors in Newcastle - who developed the advanced form of IVF - are

DHAKA: Health and Family Welfare state minister Zahid Malek on Saturday (December 10) urged parents and guardians not to forget to feed vitamin-A Plus capsule to their children to boost childhood immunity and ensure their normal growth. He made the request during inaugurating the

DHAKA: Simply being at the bottom of the social heap directly alters the body in ways that can damage health, a study at Duke University in the US suggests. Monkey experiments showed low status alters the immune system in a way that raises the risk of heart disease, diabetes and mental

The mosquito-borne Zika virus will no longer be treated as an international medical emergency, the World Health Organization (WHO) has declared. By lifting its nine-month-old declaration, the UN’s health agency is acknowledging that Zika is here to stay, reports the BBC. The

DHAKA: Black women in England are almost twice as likely to be diagnosed with advanced breast cancer as white women, according to a new analysis by Cancer Research UK and Public Health England. Late-stage disease is found in about 25 percent of black African and 22 percent of black

DHAKA: A person’s chances of falling ill from a new strain of flu are at least partly determined by the first strain they ever encountered, a study suggests. Research in Science journal looked at the 18 strains of influenza A and the hem agglutinin protein on its surface. They say

DHAKA: Very stressful events affect the brains of girls and boys in different ways. A Stanford University study suggests that a part of the brain linked to emotions and empathy, called the insula, was found to be particularly small in girls who had suffered trauma. But in