Parents, health professionals and educators need clear and balanced information to help manage young children's use of mobile touch-screen devices in Australia, new research by Curtin University has found.
Mobile phones and smartphones apps offer a promising approach to ensure that an individual's medical records when shared between different health care providers are matched correctly, according to a new RAND Corporation report.
The bill on Safe Motherhood and Reproductive Health Rights, which is registered at the Parliament Secretariat, has a provision which bars anyone from filing for divorce citing reproductive health issues of the spouse.
Doctors may soon have help in the fight against cancer thanks to the University of Central Florida's Computer Vision Research Center. Engineers at the center have taught a computer how to detect tiny specks of lung cancer in CT scans, which radiologists often have a difficult time identifying. The artificial intelligence system is about 95% accurate, compared to 65% when done by human eyes, the team said.
Foreign Minister AH Mahmood Ali hoped that the World Health Organization (WHO) will continue playing a pro-active role in the promotion of the health and welfare of Rohingyas, as well as the substantive role in their safe, voluntary, dignified and sustainable repatriation to Myanmar.
Gene expression is a fundamental of life, where each cell switches on and off specific genes. Thus, an autonomous device that could control the on-off switching would have great value in medical care.
Tobacco users have declined significantly in Bangladesh in the last eight years amid signs that anti-tobacco measures yielded benefits, according to a new survey.
Experts, however, warned against complacency as there are examples in the world that tobacco consumption rose after an initial decline. Japan Tobacco’s entry to Bangladesh also worries them.
Young children are significantly more likely than adults to have their opinions and decisions influenced by robots, according to new research.
New Criminal Code Act, which comes into force, proposes tougher penalties for criminal negligence in the treatment of a patient. Section 232 of the act proposes to impose jail sentence not exceeding five years and a fine not exceeding Rs 50,000 on a doctor if s/he is found to have caused death or maimed a patient by reckless acts during the course of treatment.
To test for malignancy or monitor the effectiveness of cancer treatment, a person's tissue must be extracted, sent to a lab, stained and analyzed by a pathologist–a process that can take days to complete and is subject to human error.
Ninth-grader Nafisa Mehrin of Holy Cross Girls' High School in Dhaka has found a box at a dedicated corner of her school where she can drop written questions related to adolescence. Her question is picked up by a counsellor designated for the school, under a flagship project called “Generation Breakthrough” of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA). The counsellor provides answers to Nafisa's queries in the same box.
PROGGA, a leading anti-tobacco group in Bangladesh, said Japan Tobacco’s presence will “increase the risk of public health since the company will invest a huge amount of money to market their lethal products”.