Health

Bangladesh made strides in cutting child, maternal mortality: WHO

Shawdesh Desk: Bangladesh is among countries that showed “substantial progress” in reducing child or maternal mortality, according to the World Health Organization (WHO). More women and their children are surviving

Lab-Grown Human Mini Livers Allow Candidate Drugs Screening for Liver Diseases

Rafiq Islam, (Kansas City): Since culturing of human hepatocytes is tricky and cells derived from different donors have a very different genetic make-up, scientists at the University of Pittsburg School

Your smartphone might give you cervical spondylosis

Shawdesh Desk: Wherever you go I’ll follow you! No, we are not referring to the famous TV ad, rather your our extended body part–our mobile phone! Is this the way

Life-saving surgery but not by a doctor

It takes 10 years to train as a surgeon in Ethiopia, but Seida Guadu learned how to carry out emergency operations in just three. Here she performs a Caesarean section

Purdue Pharma files for chapter 11 bankruptcy

Shawdesh Desk: Purdue Pharma, maker of OxyContin, the drug widely seen as igniting the opioid crisis, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy on Sunday night, a move at the centre of

California puts abortion pills in public universities

Shawdesh Desk: At a time when conservative states are sharply limiting abortion access, California signalled a new frontier in abortion-rights on Friday with the passage of legislation that would require

Hydrogel to repair heart after heart attack

Shawdesh desk: Hydrogel to repair heart after heart attack Ventrix, a University of California San Diego spin-off company, has successfully conducted a first-in-human, FDA-approved Phase 1 clinical trial of an

Shorter people run higher risk of diabetes

Shawdesh Desk: Shorter people are at greater risk of developing type 2 diabetes, according to a study published Tuesday. Each additional 10 centimetres in height translates into a 41 percent