Health News - Independent Bangladesh http://www.independent-bangladesh.com Tue, 13 May 2008 03:52:25 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.2 http://www.independent-bangladesh.com/200805125241/health/cyclone-overwhelms-myanmar-doctors-disease-threat.html REUTERS, BANGKOK - Survivors of Cyclone Nargis are overwhelming army-ruled Myanmar's crumbling health service and it faces a worst-case scenario of disease outbreaks unless aid is ramped up, a U.N. health expert said on Sunday.At a hospital... Mon, 12 May 2008 09:06:25 +0100 http://www.independent-bangladesh.com/200805085109/health/deadly-china-child-virus-wont-be-another-sars-doctor.html REUTERS, Beijing - A prominent Chinese doctor said China's deadly hand, foot and mouth outbreak will not become another epidemic on the scale of the SARS virus, even as the numbers of reported cases mounted on Wednesday. Hand, foot and... Thu, 08 May 2008 07:11:15 +0100 http://www.independent-bangladesh.com/200805075079/health/lack-of-vitamin-d-linked-to-depression-in-elderly.html AFP, WASHINGTON - Low levels of vitamin D in elderly people may lead to increased depression and other psychiatric problems, Dutch researchers said. Underlying causes of vitamin D deficiency such as less sun exposure as a result of decreased... Wed, 07 May 2008 01:52:55 +0100 http://www.independent-bangladesh.com/200805065055/health/china-province-records-622-new-cases-of-virus-xinhua.html REUTERS, Beijing - A province in eastern China recorded 622 new cases of the intestinal virus known as enterovirus 71 on Saturday alone, the official Xinhua news agency said on Sunday. The figure brought to 5,151 the number of... Tue, 06 May 2008 00:39:25 +0100 http://www.independent-bangladesh.com/200805034931/health/deadly-virus-spreads-in-china-21-children-die.html Beijing, May 02 (bdnews24.com/Reuters) - A deadly virus has spread rapidly in eastern China, killing at least 21 children and infecting nearly 3,000, Xinhua news agency said on Friday. Enterovirus 71 began spreading in Fuyang in the eastern province of... Sat, 03 May 2008 07:40:46 +0100 http://www.independent-bangladesh.com/200804304863/health/nepal-on-flu-alert-tests-poultry-on-india-border.html REUTERS, KATHMANDU - Nepal has issued a bird flu alert and is testing poultry along the border with India, where the virus rages despite the culling of tens of thousands of chickens since 2006, officials said. Nepal, which has not... Wed, 30 Apr 2008 07:21:43 +0100 http://www.independent-bangladesh.com/200804294839/health/gene-therapy-shows-success-in-restoring-some-vision-study.html AFP, WASHINGTON - An experimental gene therapy has helped restore partial vision to people with congenital retinal disease, according to breakthrough studies which provides hope for treating various eye illnesses. Clinical trials showed success on three young adults at Children's... Tue, 29 Apr 2008 07:33:56 +0100