HealthExecutive magistrates of Dhaka North City Corporation fined households Tk 177,500 in 28 cases after finding Aedes mosquito larvae in Mirpur, Rupnagar, Pallabi, Agargaon, Uttara, Nikunja and Baridhara.
HealthDengue deaths this year have reached 239 and 77,672 people have been treated in hospital; entomologist Professor Kabirul Bashar's forecasting model points to a worse October.
HealthThe Kolkata Municipal Corporation's food safety department will inspect the pop-up food stalls of the festival season for adulterated, artificially coloured, stale and substandard food; of 3,363 samples it took in the same season last year, more than 200 were substandard.
HealthOf 92.4 million US adults without an approved indication, 1.13 million were prescribed GLP-1 drugs, a third of them with a normal BMI; doctors warn the benefits for them are unclear.
Daily lifeAn automatic pill dispenser sounds an alarm or flashes a light and releases the right dose at the set time, and some send a text to a relative when a dose is missed; in Bangladesh they cost Tk 3,000 to Tk 20,000, Prothom Alo reports.
HealthSevere stress, anxiety or long-running emotional strain can raise body temperature, a condition called psychogenic fever that ordinary fever medicines do little for, Dr M R Karim Reza writes in Daily Bangladesh.
HealthPeople with diabetes need not cut out carbohydrates but should control portions and add protein and fibre; the US NIDDK's plate method shows how to fill a breakfast plate.
HealthAt a World Heart Day seminar of the National Heart Foundation, experts called for quick rules under the Tobacco Control Act 2026, budget for managing high blood pressure and diabetes in primary care, and cutting salt in food in line with WHO advice.
Professor Sohel Reza Choudhury of the National Heart Foundation explains the differences between ischaemia, heart failure, arrhythmia, valve disease and congenital heart disease.
HealthForty-seven countries reported 451,499 cases and 7,870 deaths; seven, including Bangladesh, account for about 90 per cent, WHO says.
HealthHealth minister Sardar Md Sakhawat Hossain says every upazila health complex is to be expanded from 50 to 151 beds, with 10 dialysis machines in each district hospital and 50 in each medical college hospital.
Researchers from King's College London and the University of Cape Town, studying 394 mother-child pairs, found that babies of mothers anaemic in pregnancy had total brain volumes about 4 percent smaller on average, a difference also picked up by portable low-cost MRI scanners.
Benign thyroid nodules that cause symptoms can be shrunk without a neck incision by radiofrequency or microwave ablation, now offered at some centres in Dhaka and Chattogram, endocrinologist Dr Muhammad Abu Bakar writes in Prothom Alo.
