1 in 2 people with diabetes don’t know they have it: Diabetes is silent and a big challenge for the 21st century. It is a chronic, incurable, costly, and increasing, but largely preventable non-communicable disease (NCD) which is responsible for…
With the availability of drugs and medicine, many of us use them without doctor’s prescription, without knowing the proper ways. Self-medication as means of self-care through the purchase of over-the-counter (OTC) medicines is, and always has been common in the…
A device that could one day restore bladder function to patients with a severed spinal cord has been devised by UK researchers and successfully tested in animals. Nerve damage in spinal cord injury can leave no sense of when the…
Icddr,b has received grant awards from Grand Challenges Canada, funded by the Government of Canada, to undertake two bold and creative projects aimed at improving the early brain development of children in Bangladesh, says a press release. Both the projects…
Too little sleep linked to heart disease risk People who tended to get less than six hours of sleep nightly were more likely to have high blood pressure, high cholesterol, diabetes and to be obese, according to a large U.S.…
