Twenty-nine of the 130 patients at Pirganj upazila health complex in Rangpur have dengue, while only 9 of 23 doctor posts are filled and caesarean services have stopped.
At a World Heart Day roundtable, specialists said about 80 per cent of heart disease is preventable but treatment in Bangladesh remains costly and concentrated in Dhaka.
HealthUnexplained weight loss, long fevers, sores that do not heal or a cough lasting more than three weeks can be early cancer warnings, though often they are not cancer, a doctor writes.
HealthBurn patients who seem stable after first aid still risk lasting deformity; care by a burn and plastic surgeon, splints and regular exercise can prevent it, a specialist writes.
CropsA multi-year study at more than 600 sites across Ethiopia's wheat belts found the zinc-efficient variety Melka, combined with targeted fertiliser, improves the odds of high yields and high grain zinc even on zinc-poor soils.
CropsIndia's agriculture ministry has prohibited registration of paraquat dichloride under the Insecticides Act and cancelled all existing certificates, citing poisoning deaths, the lack of an antidote and bans in more than 70 countries.
HealthUniversity of Otago researchers reviewing 30 years of New Zealand rural medicine literature say decades of under-investment leave rural people, and especially Māori, with worse health, and call for rural research and a rural GP training pathway.
HealthThe Royal New Zealand College of General Practitioners and Hauora Taiwhenua Rural Health Network want investment in GP Rural, a proposed postgraduate pathway to prepare registrars for rural practice as older rural GPs near retirement.
HealthGovernor Gavin Newsom signed a bill creating certification of non-ultraprocessed foods, overseen by the California Department of Public Health through accredited third-party certifiers by June 2029.
HealthDoctors at Bardhaman Medical College Hospital in West Bengal restored sight in the right eye of a 70-year-old woman, blind in it for 16 years, with a free DSEK corneal transplant on 25 September.
A failing liver can show up as fluid in the feet and ankles, itchy soles or yellowing skin and nails, though none of these alone confirms liver disease.
LivestockSeafield Veterinary Group has confirmed bluetongue in Aberdeenshire, one of 38 cases in Scotland this season, and urges farmers not to wait until spring to vaccinate sheep, cattle and other ruminants.
HealthFarm Dog, a nonprofit launched on 8 September, wants to remove cost and stigma from farmers' mental health care by funding professional sessions and pulling agribusinesses' separate efforts into one pathway.
