Prevention

Dr Shoaib Ahmad. Photo: Courtesy.
Wellbeing

Understanding your kidneys and chronic kidney

The symptoms of the disease usually do not show up unless the kidney is already 67-70% damaged

Representational image. Photo: Pixabay
Thoughts

Personal awareness needed in cancer prevention

Test tube labelled "Covid-19 Omicron variant test positive" is seen in this illustration picture taken 15 January, 2022. PHOTO: REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration
Covid-19 in Bangladesh

Clinical guidelines finalised to curb Omicron spread

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Coronavirus chronicle

Covid-19: What will it take to vaccinate the world?

Masks are produced at United Safety Tech, a startup that is poised to open a new N95 mask factory in La Verne, California, US, January 27, 2021. Photo: Reuters
Coronavirus chronicle

Covid-19: Is it time to upgrade from cloth and surgical masks to respirators?

The Centre has asked states to not allow mass gatherings in containment zones and districts reporting at least 5 percent case positivity.(Sanchit Khanna/HT file photo)
Coronavirus chronicle

‘Mission 100 Days’ launched in India to curb Covid-19 during festivals

A government doctor evaluates a hypertensive patient at the Upazila Health Complex in rural Bangladesh. Photo: Courtesy
Health

Hypertension prevention management trial could be cost-effectively scaled up for rural communities, study finds

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Bangladesh

‘Prevention of violence against women a multi-sectoral task’

Dr Ezaz Mamun.
Thoughts

Non-communicable diseases: Prevention is better than cure

A project has been launched to support women returnee migrants with dignity packages and health-hygiene kits. Photo: TBS
Migration

Returnee women migrants to receive Covid-19 prevention packages

Health budget should be channelled to the prevention of Covid-19
Budget

Health budget should be channelled to the prevention of Covid-19

People wearing face masks walk out of Zhongguancun subway station following the coronavirus disease (Covid-19) outbreak, in Beijing, China April 27, 2020/ Reuters
Coronavirus chronicle

China to reform disease prevention system

Anne Schuchat, principal deputy director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, speaks during a news conference about the coronavirus in the Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House in Washington, as President Donald Trump stands behind her Photo : AP
Coronavirus chronicle

Health official says US missed some chances to slow virus