Health

Saliva of 2 China-returned students sent to Dhaka for testing

Shawdesh Desk: Saliva of two Bangladeshi students, who recently returned from China, have been sent to the capital on Wednesday for testing to see if they have been affected by

Coronavirus: Scientists race to develop a vaccine

Shawdesh Desk: A deadly new virus. Thousands of people infected. No cure. No vaccine. We’ve been here many times before. In the past five years alone, the world has faced

140,000 children in Bangladesh could die in the next decade unless more is done to fight pneumonia

Shawdesh Desk: Boosting efforts to fight pneumonia could avert nearly 140,000 child deaths from pneumonia and other major diseases in Bangladesh, new analysis has found. The modelling by Johns Hopkins

Coronavirus: DGHS asks all hospitals to open ‘isolation units’

Shawdehs Desk: In a precautionary measure to tackle the potential risk of the Coronavirus spread, the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) has ordered all public hospitals across the country

Abdominal fat may lead to multiple heart attacks

Shawdesh Desk: Heart patients, please take note. Researchers have found that heart attack survivors who carry excess fat around their waist are at increased risk of another heart attack. “Abdominal

Coronavirus: All You Need to Know

Shawdesh Desk: A virus – previously unknown to science – is causing severe lung disease in China and has also been detected in other countries, reports BBC. At least 17

Snakes could be the original source of the new coronavirus outbreak in China

Shawdesh Desk: Snakes—the Chinese krait and the Chinese cobra—may be the original source of the newly discovered coronavirus that has triggered an outbreak of a deadly infectious respiratory illness in

Maternal smoking increases SIDS risk: Study

Shawdesh Desk: Children born to mothers who drank and smoked beyond the first three months of pregnancy have 12-fold increased risk for sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS), says a new