By Amy Norton HealthDay Reporter TUESDAY, Nov. 24, 2020 (HealthDay News) Women with asthma may suffer fewer severe symptom attacks if they are on birth control pills, a large new study suggests. The study of more than 83,000 women with asthma found that those who used birth control pills for […]
Year: 2020
নিজস্ব প্রতিবেদন: কোনওদিন যে এমন ভয়াবহ রাত আসবে, তা কল্পনাও করতে পারেননি কেউই। দেখতে দেখতে পেরিয়ে গেল এক যুগ। মুম্বইয়ে জঙ্গি হামলার বর্ষপূর্তিতে তাজ হোটেলের ছবি-সহ সোশ্যাল মিডিয়ায় পোস্ট দিলেন টাটা গোষ্ঠীর প্রাক্তন কর্ণধার রতন টাটা। আরও পড়ুন: ২৬/১১ হামলায় জীবন দিয়ে দেশ বাঁচিয়েছিলেন এই পাঁচ নায়ক সোশ্যাল মিডিয়ায় পোস্ট দিয়ে কী […]
WEDNESDAY, Nov. 18, 2020 (HealthDay News) — A mutation that developed in the new coronavirus early in the pandemic may have made it more infectious, a number of new findings suggest. First detected in eastern China in January, the mutation, called 614G, took over much of the world within months, […]
Latest Senior Health News WEDNESDAY, Nov. 25, 2020 (HealthDay News) The majority of older Americans say they’re likely to get a COVID-19 vaccine, but many would want to wait a bit before getting the shot, a new survey reveals. Older adults are among the groups with the highest […]
By Ernie Mundell HealthDay Reporter WEDNESDAY, Nov. 25, 2020 (HealthDay News) Early in the COVID-19 pandemic, anecdotal reports suggested that infusing very sick patients with the blood plasma of people who’d survived the disease might help boost outcomes. But study findings released Nov. 24 in the New England Journal of […]
নিজস্ব প্রতিবেদন: বীরেন্দ্র সহবাগ তখন প্রতিদিনই মাতিয়ে দিচ্ছেন ভারতীয় ক্রিকেটের আসর। তাঁর অধিনায়ক সৌরভ গাঙ্গুলিও তাঁকে খুব পছন্দ করেন। একবার একটি ম্যাচে সহবাগ দারুণ খেলেছেন। প্রেস মিটে সৌরভকে তা নিয়ে জিগ্যেস করা হলে তিনি সহাস্যে বলেন, বীরু কত দুধ খায় জানেন? মানে, মজা করে সৌরভ বলতে চেয়েছিলেন, যে অত দুধ […]
WEDNESDAY, Nov. 25, 2020 (HealthDay News) Men with COVID-19 and cancer run a greater risk for severe symptoms and death than women with both conditions, a new study finds. Researchers concluded that male cancer patients are 60% more likely to have severe COVID-19 and even die from it than women. […]
WEDNESDAY, Nov. 25, 2020 (HealthDay News) Strong sleeping pills known as “Z-drugs” may increase the risk of falls, fractures and stroke among people with dementia, British researchers report. People with dementia can have trouble sleeping and are often prescribed drugs such as zaleplon (Sonata), zolpidem (Ambien) and zopiclone to help […]
WEDNESDAY, Nov. 25, 2020 (American Heart Association News) If you think the teenagers in your life have been eating a lot of unhealthy food – you’re probably right. U.S. adolescents get about two-thirds of their calories from ultra-processed food, and the more they eat, the worse they score on important […]
WEDNESDAY, Nov. 25, 2020 (HealthDay News) A widely used tuberculosis vaccine may help protect people against the new coronavirus or reduce the severity of COVID-19, a new study suggests. The Bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) was developed in the early 1900s and is given to more than 100 million children worldwide every […]