A click on the computer can help moms in Bangladesh
People in Utah County can help moms and babies in Bangladesh without ever having to travel to the country or even donating any money to a cause.
Dr. Helen Feltovich is a high-risk obstetrician at Utah Valley Regional Medical Center in Provo and has created a new project for equipment to help those in need.
The public can help her team get funding for the project by helping them be selected as a “People’s Choice Award” winner. They may log onto https://savinglivesatbirth.net/summaries/2015/414 to cast a vote.
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Freshwater crisis intensifies
Waking up before dawn every day, Asma Khatun walks to a water plant five kilometres away to collect fresh drinking water for her 11-member family. It will be midday or even later before she returns home to her village in southwest Bangladesh’s Satkhira district, where all freshwater sources were destroyed after the devastating Cyclone Aila in 2009.
Without the 10-kilometre trek through an uneven path to the plant near Ramjannagor Dighi where the pond water is treated, there will be no water for cooking and drinking. Though the walk itself takes two hours, the 25-year-old says she has to queue up for much of the day to get her turn at the tap.
Real-life trial for oral cholera vaccine successful in BD
The first real-life trial of the oral cholera vaccine Shanchol has been deemed safe to use and viable for protection against the disease. Results reveal that severe life-threatening cases of cholera was reduced by nearly 40% among those vaccinated.
Cholera a bacterial illness that typically enters the body through contaminated water or food.
The study, published in The Lancet, examined the drug's effectiveness in urban Bangladesh where the disease is endemic. The findings represent a huge step toward controlling outbreaks and developing effect...
The study, published in The Lancet, examined the drug's effectiveness in urban Bangladesh where the disease is endemic. The findings represent a huge step toward controlling outbreaks and developing effect...
Oral cholera vaccines end dreadful disease in BD
It is a sigh of relief for Bangladesh, where oral cholera is an endemic disease, as a vaccine called Shanchol which is given as part of routine health services has been tagged safe and will protect children and adults from severe cholera.
The findings lend support to the use of the vaccine in routine mass vaccination programmes to help to control cholera in endemic countries.
The study shows that even with moderate vaccination coverage, cases of severe life-threatening cholera were reduced by nearly 40 pe...
The study shows that even with moderate vaccination coverage, cases of severe life-threatening cholera were reduced by nearly 40 pe...
Beximco launches generic version of Hepatitis C drug
Leading drug manufacturer Beximco Pharma today announces the launch of generic version of the wonder drug Sofosbuvir for treating Hepatitis C under the brand name ‘ Sofovir C’. Sofosbuvir is a revolutionary drug recently launched by Gilead Sciences Inc, under its brand Sovaldi which is considered to be the most effective medication to treat hepatitis C with a cure rate of 90%.
This is available as tablet and devoid of side effects that are seen with existing injectable therapies. The breakthrough drug, however, costs $1,000 (T...
This is available as tablet and devoid of side effects that are seen with existing injectable therapies. The breakthrough drug, however, costs $1,000 (T...
Millions mark 1st International Yoga Day
Millions of yoga enthusiasts bent and twisted their bodies in complex postures across India and much of the world on Sunday to mark the first International Yoga Day.
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who had lobbied the U.N. to declare June 21 as the global Yoga Day, spread his mat among rows of people, including his Cabinet members and foreign diplomats, at New Delhi’s main thoroughfare that has been transformed into one sprawling exercise ground, reports AP.
Tens of thousands of schoolchildren, bureaucrats, homemakers, soldiers and ...
Tens of thousands of schoolchildren, bureaucrats, homemakers, soldiers and ...
