Information Secretary Jamil Osman said Monday that in the era of globalization all have to work in a concerted way to solve the common health problems, reports agency.

He was addressing a discussion organized by the Department of Mass Communication on the occasion of World Health Day-2008.

Health and Family Planning Adviser Dr AMM Shawkat Ali Monday said the issue of climate change would get top priority in the proposed new health policy as it causes various human diseases apart from natural disasters, reports UNB.

“We need more data about climate change as the government gives top most priority to this particular issue in the proposed heath policy to be finalised in the next three months,” he said.

AFP, SYDNEY - Climate change will increase the risk of people losing their sight through cataracts because of higher levels of ultraviolet rays, an expert said Monday.

"The three main risk factors that lead to cataract blindness are age, smoking and UV exposure, in that order," said Andreas Mueller of the Fred Hollows Foundation.

"Climate change will increase UV levels and therefore increase the risk of developing cataracts," the doctor said in a statement to mark World Health Day, which this year has the theme "Protecting health from climate change".

Around 2,300 domestic and poultry fowls of two villages were culled in Birganj upazila here Tuesday night after detection of avian influenza, reports UNB.

Local livestock officials said some 2,300 fowls and 338 eggs were destroyed at Damaikhetra and Sitlai villages as the laboratory test confirmed the existence of H5N1 virus.

Activities of Kidney Foundation Lottery- 2008 would be launched to raise fund for establishing a state of the art kidney hospital at Mirpur in the capital, reports agency.

Office bearers of Kidney Foundation Thursday said this while addressing a press conference at Dhaka Club.

AFP, WELLINGTON - India and China are leading a global explosion in the diabetes epidemic, with the numbers of sufferers worldwide expected to grow more than 50 percent by 2025, a leading researcher said Tuesday.

"But it already appears those estimates may be an under-estimate," Zimmet said on the sidelines