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The increasing interest in mental health in recent years and the knowledge that certain drugs can stimulate, depress, or modify the state of mind has…
Categories of drugs

Categories of drugs

Drugs can be categorized based upon their effects on users. There are essentially seven different drug types, each with its own set of characteristics,…
Management of substance abuse

Management of substance abuse

We know what can and needs to be done to help reduce the burden of psychoactive substance use. Therefore, WHO is committed to assisting countries in the…
Drug abuse and addiction

Drug abuse and addiction

Addiction is a disease that affects your brain and behavior. When you’re addicted to drugs, you can’t resist the urge to use them, no matter…
Harmful use of alcohol kills more than 3 million people each year

Harmful use of alcohol kills more than 3 million people each year

More than 3 million people died as a result of harmful use of alcohol in 2016, according a report released by the World Health Organization (WHO) today.…
WHO launches SAFER alcohol control initiative to prevent and reduce alcohol-related death and disability

WHO launches SAFER alcohol control initiative to prevent and reduce alcohol-related death and disability

Last Year, the World Health Organization (WHO) released SAFER, a new initiative and technical package outlining five high-impact strategies that can help…
Progress stalls on health-related Sustainable Development Goals

Progress stalls on health-related Sustainable Development Goals

The unfortunate truth, confronting the recent World Health Assembly, is that the world is not on track to meet the health-related SDGs. The widening gap…
Could prosthetic limbs one day be controlled by human thought?

Could prosthetic limbs one day be controlled by human thought?

For almost two decades, Stanford electrical engineering professor Krishna Shenoy and neuroscientists in his Neural Prosthetics Translational Laboratory…
Therapeutic effects of Yoga and its ability to increase quality of life (Part-2)

Therapeutic effects of Yoga and its ability to increase quality of life (Part-2)

My experience inspired me to pore over the scientific studies I'd collected in Bangladesh, India as well as the West to identify and explain how yoga…
Unique book on health rhymes of Prof. Hafizuddin Ahmed

Unique book on health rhymes of Prof. Hafizuddin Ahmed

The latest book of renowned writer Prof. Dr. Hafizuddin Ahmed, a unique collection of juvenile rhymes on health awareness ‘Chora Pori Shastho Gori’…
Workshop on awareness for Pediatric Palliative Care held at Bhairab

Workshop on awareness for Pediatric Palliative Care held at Bhairab

ASHIC Pediatric Mobile Palliative Care Clinic (PPCC) of ASHIC, Foundation for Childhood Cancer in collaboration with NVIDIA Foundation USA has organized…
North South University (NSU) organized seminar on air pollution

North South University (NSU) organized seminar on air pollution

North South University organized a seminar on ‘Air Pollution: Innovation and Challenges’ to celebrate World Environment Day 2019 on 24 June…
Hopes raised of cervical cancer eradication

Hopes raised of cervical cancer eradication

The success of the HPV vaccination offers hope of one day eradicating cervical cancer, say scientists who carried out a major review of evidence. Vaccination…
FDA approves first drug for sinusitis with nasal polyps, Dupixent (Dupilumab)

FDA approves first drug for sinusitis with nasal polyps, Dupixent (Dupilumab)

In what specialists say could be a turning point in care, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration recently the first drug to treat chronic sinusitis that…

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Published by the Editor on behalf of Independent Publications Limited at Media Printers, 446/H, Tejgaon I/A, Dhaka-1215.
Editorial, News & Commercial Offices : Beximco Media Complex, 149-150 Tejgaon I/A, Dhaka-1208, Bangladesh. GPO Box No. 934, Dhaka-1000.

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