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High medical expenditure makes people helpless

Rafiq Ul Alam

High medical expenditure makes people helpless Reza Mahmud High expenditures are making treatment unaffordable to the country’s majority of people in Bangladesh. Unnecessary pathological and other test requirements, unbearable price of medicines and absence of referral system are source of the reasons compelling the people to spend unlimited amount of money for treatment. Most people are losing everything for treatment. “My 13 years old daughter is sufferings from severe stomach pain for long. We have been compelled to change her doctors for several times from our home village of Barisal…

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Heart disease patients live longer in exercise

Rafiq Ul Alam

Heart disease patients live longer in exercise [ Sastha Bangla Desk ] Researchers examined three decades of data on 3,307 adults who had been diagnosed with coronary heart disease after a heart attack or an episode of severe chest pain, known as angina, caused by inadequate blood supply to the heart. By the time half of the patients had been in the study for at least 15 years, 1,493 of them had died. Compared to people who were inactive, participants who consistently got the minimum recommended amount of exercise for…

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e-cigarettes may still damage lungs, Even without nicotine

Rafiq Ul Alam

e-cigarettes may still damage lungs , Even without nicotine [ Sastha Bangla Desk ] E-cigarette liquids sweetened with flavourings like vanilla and cinnamon may harm the lungs even when they don’t contain nicotine, a US study suggests. Researchers examined what happened to monocytes, a type of white blood cell, upon exposure to flavouring chemicals used in popular e-cigarette liquids. None of the liquids contained nicotine, but the flavouring chemicals still appeared to increase biomarkers for inflammation and tissue damage, and many of them also caused cells to die. Over time,…

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