Thousands of Rohingya women and girls have been systematically raped by Myanmar's military. Humanitarian aid focuses on immediate needs such as shelter, clean water, food, and safe and sanitary facilities, but people living in crises also need sexual and reproductive health care, including safe abortion and contraception.
In an advance that could help scientists develop and test new drugs for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), engineers have developed the first 3-D human tissue model of the interface between motor neurons and muscle fibers, known as the neuromuscular junction. The study is published in the issue of Science Advances
An app-based medical ambulance service , by health tech startup Ural EMS, has reecently launched-making it Bangladesh's first online emergency medical service to call ambulances in close proximity.
Since 2017, Olympus Corporation has participated in a joint research program that has the potential to help streamline the workload of clinical pathologists, called "A New Approach to Develop Computer-Aided Diagnosis Using Artificial Intelligence (AI) for Gastric Biopsy Specimens" with Dr. Kiyomi Taniyama, President of the Kure Medical Center and Chugoku Cancer Center.
The Asian Development Bank's (ADB) Board of Directors has approved a $20 million grant financing package to support the efforts of the Government of Bhutan to improve the equity, efficiency, and sustainability of the country's health system.
Researchers have demonstrated an integrated technique for monitoring specific biomolecules – such as growth factors – that could indicate the health of living cell cultures produced for the burgeoning field of cell-based therapeutics .
Bangladesh ranks 161st in the world for its investments in education and healthcare as measurements of its commitment to economic growth, according to the first-ever scientific study ranking countries for their levels of human capital. The nation placed just behind Djibouti (ranked 160th) and just ahead of Togo (162nd). The United States ranked 27th, while India placed 158th.
In the human brain, nerve cells – so-called neurons – care for the transmission of electrical signals. They form the functional component responsible for sensations, stimuli and memories. In the presence of dementia, there is an adsorption of proteins outside the neurons, which leads to the death of the neuronal cells. How to prevent the death of neurons is still the subject of scientific research today.
India, the fastest growing major economy, is seen as the powerhouse of South Asia, but this may soon change. Having already stolen a march over India on key social indices, Bangladesh is now on the verge of establishing a lead on the economic front too.
The type of hypothetical question put to staff in a new virtual reality (VR) training program, which uses immersive technology to tackle sex harassment in the workplace. It is one of a series of schemes using VR to explore social issues that are hard to teach the traditional way.
In those precious weeks before a woman even realizes she's pregnant, an embryo will have already developed a neural tube, a hollow structure made of cells which will eventually become the brain and spinal cord.
Now, with $3.2 million from the National Institutes of Health, UH professor of biomedical engineering Kirill Larin will tackle the evolutionary anomaly of why the neural tube closes in most embryos but remains open in others, leading to birth defects such as spina bifida and anencephaly.
A translational research team led by the National University of Singapore (NUS) has harnessed CURATE.AI, a powerful artificial intelligence (AI) platform, to treat a patient with advanced cancer, completely halting disease progression. This new development represents a big step forward in personalised medicine.