Dhaka – Ethics Advanced Technology Limited and Grameenphone jointly have launched 30 health apps in Java and android platform for GP subscribers on the occasion of ‘World Health Day’, a release said Tuesday. Grameenphone, the market leader of the mobile phone operators in Bangladesh, and EATL, one of the leading ICT services providers, developed the…
Dhaka (newsnextbd.com) — The rate of night blindness disease has been decreased to .04 per cent from 3.76 per cent in the country, as the government involved feeding Vitamin ‘A’ capsules to children across the country. The country will observe the National Vitamin A-plus Campaign on Saturday to prevent childhood blindness and reduce child mortality…
Geneva (newsnextbd.com) — While countries in South-East Asia have made substantial economic progress, diseases such as dengue and malaria fuel a vicious cycle of poverty and have a significant impact on socioeconomic status of communities. These diseases are still killing thousands of people in the WHO South-East Asia Region, said a WHO press release on…
Sangsad Bhaban (newsnextbd.com) — The total number of diabetic patients in Bangladesh is now 84 lakh, Health and Family Welfare Minister Mohammad Nasim said here on Wednesday. Replying to a question from treasury bench member Noor-un- Nabi Chowdhury in the House, he said Bangladesh Diabetic Association has been providing treatment to diabetic patients across the…
Dhaka (newsnextbd.com) – Bangladesh was among the 11 South-East Asia country, home to a quarter of the world’s population, were declared polio-free on Thursday by World Health Organization, said a WHO press release. The WHO’s regional office met on Thursday in New Delhi, where they issued a polio-free certification for the region. The 10 other…
International Desk, London (newsnextbd.com) — Air pollution kills about 7 million people worldwide every year, with more than half of the fatalities due to fumes from indoor stoves, according to a new report from the World Health Organization published Tuesday. The agency said air pollution is the cause of about one in eight deaths and…
London (newsnextbd.com) — Sleep loss may be more serious than previously thought, causing a permanent loss of brain cells, research suggests. In mice, prolonged lack of sleep led to 25% of certain brain cells dying, according to a study in The Journal of Neuroscience, reports BBC Online. If the same is true in humans, it…
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Paris (newsnextbd.com) –Researchers in the United States say they have developed a prototype blood test that can tell with 90-percent accuracy whether a healthy person will develop Alzheimer’s disease within three years. The test looks for 10 signatures of fatty proteins called lipids, according to a study published on Sunday in the journal Nature Medicine.…
Health Desk – Pet bites! Dog bites, the most common bites treated in emergency rooms; cat bites, which account for only 10 to 15 percent of animal bites. But a cat bite on hand can turn into a hospital stay, according to a new study. A recent Mayo Clinic study shows that one out of…
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