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Maximum age at death trending higher and higher, study shows
September 30, 2000
WASHINGTON, SEPT 29 (AP) - In the 1860s, the oldest person to die each
year in Sweden was about 100. Last year, that age had risen to 108.
Researchers are finding this trend in all industrialized countries
and say the very old may get even older.
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Extinction risk grows across the globe
September 30, 2000
LONDON, SEPT 29 (AP) - A wild cat that roams Europe's Iberian Peninsula, a
dolphin off the New Zealand coast, a caviar-producing sturgeon and a
red-flowered shrub clinging to the mountains of Mauritius have one
thing in common: all are teetering on the edge of extinction.
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Doctors transplant muscle cells to patient's failing heart
September 30, 2000
PHILADELPHIA, SEPT 29 (AP) - For the first time, doctors have transplanted
a patient's own skeletal muscle onto his heart to see if similar
tissue could one day be used to treat heart disease.
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WHO workshop on blood donor recruitment ends
September 29, 2000
Dhaka (UNB) – South East Asia (SEA) has a shortfall of 8 million units of blood against the annual requirement of the region.
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Greenhouse gas emission in Japan still above international protocol
September 23, 2000
TOKYO, SEPT 22 (AP) - Japan's greenhouse gas emissions dropped in the 1998
fiscal year from the year before, but were still above the target
set by a 1997 protocol to fight global warming, a government report
said Friday.
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Polio & diarrhea: The top infanticides
September
19, 2000
Cox’s Bazar (UNB) – Identifying polio and diarrhea as the main culprits for high child mortality rate in the country, the Health Minister said the government has taken up massive programmes for the development of child health.
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WHO workshop on Blood Donor Recruitment this month
September
19, 2000
Dhaka (UNB) – A five-day inter-country workshop on Strategies for Blood Donor Recruitment begins at Hotel Sheraton here on Sept 24 aiming to achieve blood safety globally.
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New water-pollutant detection laboratory opened
September
17, 2000
Dhaka (UNB) – A non-government organization has set up a laboratory for detection of pollutants in water.
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2 Nobel laureates & WHO chief to attend health assembly
September
11, 2000
Dhaka (UNB) - With a view to make success the ensuing Peoples' Health Assembly 2000 in Bangladesh in December, six divisional conferences of its Bangladesh Chapter starts from September 17.
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Tobacco to surpass HIV!
September 10, 2000
Dhaka (UNB) - Tobacco would soon become a leading death trap worldwide, causing deaths more than HIV, maternal mortality, automobile accidents, homicide and suicide combined.
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Number of Japanese 100 years or older hits record high
September 9, 2000
TOKYO, SEPT 8 (AP) - A record 13,036 Japanese will be at least 100 years
old as of the end of this month, the government said Friday.
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Study: Doctors are prescribing fewer antibiotics
September 9, 2000
NEW ORLEANS, SEPT 8 (AP) - American doctors and parents apparently are
paying attention to warnings that unnecessary use of antibiotics can
be harmful by creating drug-resistant bacteria.
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Report: World's only captive brown and white panda dies
September 9, 2000
BEIJING, SEPT 8 (AP) - The world's only brown and white panda living in
captivity has died at the age of 29, China's official Xinhua News
Agency reported.
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500 thousand cancer patients in Bangladesh
September 8, 2000
Sangsad Bhaban (UNB) – Some five lakh people are suffering from cancer across the country, Health Minister Sheikh Fazlul Karim Selim told Parliament yesterday (Thursday).
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10 million Thalassaemia carriers in Bangladesh
September 8, 2000
Dhaka (UNB) – Some one crore people in the country are carrying the germs of thalassaemia and about 8000 children are born with the disease every year.
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Temporal Bone Dissection Laboratory inaugurated
September 8, 2000
Dhaka, (UNB) - Speaker Humayun Rasheed Chowdhury yesterday called upon the physician community to work for human service with a missionary zeal.
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Bone Detection Laboratory opened from today
September
7, 2000
Dhaka (UNB) - Temporal Bone Detection Laboratory, a surgery and training centre for
ENT, will be inaugurated here today.
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Workshop on arsenic mitigation today
September
7, 2000
Dhaka (UNB) - A daylong workshop on arsenic mitigation will be held at Public Health Engineering Department
(PHED) here today (Thursday).
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WHO's Brundtland warns of AIDS threat to India
September 6, 2000
NEW DELHI (AP) - With polio and leprosy about to be eradicated in India, World Health Organization Director Gro Harlem Brundtland warned Tuesday that the country's next big health battle
could be against AIDS, although only .35 percent of the population is believed to have the deadly virus.
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Thailand to assist Bangladesh about dengue fever
September 5, 2000
Dhaka (UNB) - Thailand has assured Bangladesh of providing technical assistance and training in developing dengue fever management.
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Rotary & Inner Wheel Club begin cleansing
September 3, 2000
Dhaka (UNB) - Joining hands with the Dhaka City Corporation for a neat and clean Dhaka and keeping sound environment for the city-dwellers, two private organisations began a cleanliness drive here yesterday.
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Seminar on tuberculosis held
September 3, 2000
Sylhet (UNB) - Doctors at a seminar here warned that tuberculosis might take a serious turn by the year 2005 if appropriate measures are not taken immediately.
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New drug may improve life of lung patients
September 3, 2000
FLORENCE, Italy - An experimental drug could make breathing
much easier for millions of people suffering from "smoker's lung,"
scientists say.
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International conference on equitable health on December
September 2, 2000
Dhaka, Sept 1 (UNB) – An international conference, aiming to ensure equitable health for all, will be held in Savar on December 4-8.
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Marina lashes out about AIDS
August 30, 2000
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) - Malaysia's biggest AIDS awareness and prevention body has protested a proposal by officials in a southern state to subject Muslim men to HIV tests before they are allowed to get married, a news report said.
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Safe
drinking has always been a crucial issue
August
29, 2000
Dhaka
(UNB) – Disclosing that arsenic contaminated water has been found in
country’s 225 upazilas, State Minister for Environment HN Ashiqur Rahman
yesterday said safe drinking in Bangladesh has always been a crucial issue.
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People's
Health Assembly inaugurated
August
28, 2000
Dhaka
(UNB) - To rectify role of the World Health Organization (WHO) and ensure
'equitable health services' to all, a new international forum titled
People's Health Assembly has emerged.
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‘Dengue’----
the eternal fever
August
27, 2000
Dhaka
(UNB)- The deadly dengue fever is not new in Bangladesh. It was in the past,
is prevailing now and will be in future as well.
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Secret
HIV testing of patients
August
27, 2000
JOHANNESBURG,
South Africa (AP) - More than 50 physicians here are accused of HIV-testing
patients without their knowledge or consent - and then passing on the result
to the patients' employers, media reported Saturday.
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Bone marrow transplants show promise for lupus disease
August 26, 2000
LONDON
(AP) - New research bolsters the hope that doctors might one day be able to use bone marrow transplants to cure autoimmune diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis, multiple sclerosis and lupus.
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Meeting
on Arsenic contaminated water
August
21, 2000
Dhaka
(UNB)- A three-day meeting on ‘potential for use of deeper aquifers as
drinking water sources particularly in arsenic-affected areas’ began here
yesterday.
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Reports: Traces of arsenic found in Cambodian drinking water
August 19, 2000
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia, AUG 18 (UNB/AP) - An investigation by Cambodian and
U.N. authorities has found traces of arsenic in 9 percent of
drinking water samples collected across the nation, local newspapers
reported Friday.
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‘Human
cloning’ recommended!
August
17, 2000
LONDON
(AP) - Britain should amend its ban on human cloning so scientists can
create cloned embryos to study the creation of cells and tissues for
transplant, a government-commissioned panel said Wednesday.
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Doctors
imparted training on dengue fever
August
15, 2000
Dhaka
(UNB) – Ninety-eight physicians of capital Dhaka while 36 of the port city
of Chittagong have been imparted training on dengue fever treatment, a
review meeting on dengue fever was told yesterday.
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Heart patient awake during surgery
August 12, 2000
MIAMI (AP) - A 61-year-old man stayed awake for the entire
4-hour, 10-minute open heart surgery operation performed on him by a
team of three doctors.
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Mesh better than new stitches for hernia
August 10, 2000
UNDATED (AP) - When a surgical scar pops open in an abdominal muscle, mesh is better than new stitches to repair the damage, a new study says.
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Hasina at health ministry to discuss Dengue
August 10, 2000
Dhaka (UNB) - Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday (Wednesday) said the government has taken necessary measures on emergency basis to control the spread of Dengue virus and the total situation is under control.
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December 16:Victory (against polio) Day also
August 9, 2000
Dhaka (UNB) - Highly praising the Bangladesh government for its tremendous success in eradicating polio, the UNICEF has observed that if Bangladesh remains free of polio rest of the year, it can be declared a polio-free country.
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Moratorium on office surgery
August 6, 2000
TAMPA, Florida (AP) - State medical regulators have ordered a
moratorium on doctors doing surgery in their offices under spinal or
general anesthesia, citing patient safety concerns after five recent
deaths.
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Japan's population growth at record low
August 5, 2000
TOKYO (AP) - Japan's population grew just 0.17 percent in the
year through March, a record slowdown amid widespread concerns about
the economic and social impact of a falling birthrate.
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Seeing double - Twins Days marks 25th year
August 5, 2000
TWINSBURG, Ohio (AP) - Once just a simple ceremony honoring twin
brothers, the Twins Days festival has doubled and doubled and
doubled - literally.
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Country's first community clinic inaugurated
August 4, 2000
Kapasia (Gazipur) (UNB) - Marking a success in its efforts to reach healthcare services to the doorsteps of rural people, the government has opened the country's first community clinic at Deona village at Kapasia upazila.
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Cleanliness drive at DU to destroy Dengue carrier
August 4, 2000
Dhaka (UNB) - A cleanliness drive began on the Dhaka University campus yesterday (Thursday) to remove garbage for destroying Aedes mosquito, the carrier of dengue virus.
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Central monitoring cell to supervise mosquito
August 4, 2000
Dhaka (UNB) - Dhaka City Corporation has opened a central monitoring cell to supervise its cleanliness drive, garbage cleaning, street light maintenance and mosquito control operation.
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Three Ministers visit Dengue patients
August 2, 2000
Dhaka (UNB)- Foreign Minister Abdus Samad Azad, Civil Aviation Minister Eng. Mosharraf Hossain and Deputy Health Minister Prof Amanullah visited Dhaka Medical College Hospital yesterday to see the condition of patients suffering from dengu fever.
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24 more admitted to hospital with Dengue
August 1, 2000
Dhaka (UNB) - Twenty-four more patients with symptoms of dengue fever were admitted to Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH) yesterday.
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