Brazil, the world's largest beef exporter, has suspended beef exports to its No. 1 customer China after confirming two cases of "atypical" mad cow disease in two separate domestic meat plants, the agriculture ministry said on Saturday.

Reducing dietary sodium, in combination with increasing dietary potassium, can lower blood pressure (BP) in some “salt-sensitive” people.

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People with type 2 diabetes should be considered in remission after sustaining normal blood sugar levels for three months or more, according to a new consensus statement from the Endocrine Society, the European Association for the Study of Diabetes (EASD), Diabetes UK and the American Diabetes Association, and co-published in Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism, Diabetologia, Diabetic Medicine and Diabetes Care.

According to the current date, in Bangladesh about 4.4% (7.13 M) of the population is fully vaccinated and about 24.8 million doses have given. However, these number could be much higher if the people would much aware of being vaccinated but for being illiterate and spreading misconception through different medium most of the elderly citizens are not willing to take the vaccine.

Only a quarter of countries worldwide have a national policy, strategy or plan for supporting people with dementia and their families, according to the The World Health Organisation (WHO)’s ‘Global status report on the public health response to dementia’, released recently.

Two more dengue patients have died while 265 new patients were hospitalised in the last 24 hours till 8am yesterday.

The Covid-19 positivity rate declined below 10 percent after more than three months as the country logged 1,743 new cases yesterday.

Hafiza, a mother of two children from East Jurain’s Khaja Mahbub Ali Road, has been suffering from dengue fever for more than 20 days. Her 12-year-old son, who was also infected, recently recovered after 13 days of a life or death struggle at a local hospital.

A woman undergoing treatment at Chattogram Medical College Hospital (CMCH) has been identified with black fungus, a doctor said today.

Two more have died while 265 new dengue patients hospitalised in the last 24 hours till 8:00 am today.

Sixty-one people died from Covid-19 in 24 hours till 8 am today, said a press release issued by the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).

Health Minister Zahid Maleque today said anyone aged 18 and above will get Covid-19 vaccines from now on.

Brain fog is one of the rarer Covid-19 symptoms -- not talked about frequently. There are no complications in understanding brain fog; it’s a cognitive dysfunction, a hazy feeling that bars you from concentrating, or remembering things.

One more dengue patient died while 255 others were hospitalised in the 24 hours till 8am yesterday. According to the Directorate General of Health Services, among the new cases, 22 are from outside Dhaka.

The fatalities from Covid-19 and new infections have dropped in the country last week compared to the previous week, according to data of the Directorate General of Health Services.

One more dengue patient died while 255 others were hospitalised in the 24 hours till 8:00am today.

Seventy people died of Covid-19 in 24 hours till 8am today, said a press release issued by the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).

Already armed with four fully-approved Covid-19 vaccines, the Drugs Controller General of India (DCGI) has approved the phase-three human trial of yet another vaccine, Corbevax, by private pharma major Biological E’s for adults, children and adolescents.

The Philippines' Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Friday approved the emergency use of Moderna's Covid-19 doses for children ages 12 to 17, the agency's chief said.