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Low socioeconomic families - and particularly women - experienced increased financial hardship, food insecurity, domestic violence and mental health challenges during COVID-19 lockdown measures in Bangladesh, a new research study shows.
False medical information can be deadly; researchers led by Bangladesh’s International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, writing in The American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, have directly linked a single piece of coronavirus misinformation to 800 deaths.
A study published in the American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene says about 5,800 people were admitted to hospital as a result of false information on social media.
Covid-19 rumors, stigma and conspiracy theories have been circulating in 25 different languages across at least 87 countries -- including the United States -- and this spread of misinformation has led to deaths and injuries, according to a new study.
Bacteria in the small intestine may drive inflammation that makes it harder for children to get the calories and nutrients they need.
DHAKA — Bangladesh's state medical research agency has approved a third-phase trial of a potential COVID-19 vaccine developed by China's Sinovac Biotech Ltd, as infections rise in the densely populated South Asian country. The trial, to be conducted by the International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (ICDDR,B), could begin next month.
The trial, to be conducted by the International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (ICDDR,B), could begin next month.
Bangladesh-based International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research (ICCDR’B) said the trial would be conducted on 72 infected patients in four hospitals treating Covid-19 in Dhaka, while “the study has commenced in Kurmitola General Hospital and Mugda Medical College and Hospital and discussions with others are underway.”
What Hands Do All the Day is a telling film of daily life in a remote rural area of Bangladesh. It was made in the early 1980s by K.M.A. Aziz, a social scientist at the International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (now known by its lowercase abbreviation icddr,b).
"We have brought down the mortality rate in cholera to almost zero in Bangladesh," said senior scientist Firdausi Qadri at the Dhaka-based International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research.
Dr Aliya Naheed, the study's country principal investigator in Bangladesh and a co-author, said, "Uncontrolled hypertension is a major cause of cardiovascular disease, especially stroke, in Bangladesh.
Cholera has provoked devastating pandemics. For decades, bureaucracy and indifference prevented effective protection, even though hundreds of thousands of lives could have been saved. Now there is a new vaccine.
A study out of Stanford University this week says it may also contain lead, a potent neurotoxin. Some spice processors in Bangladesh use an industrial lead chromate pigment to amp up turmeric’s bright yellow color, which makes it a prized addition to curries and other dishes.
A promising new study indicates that, with the right approach, anemia can be significantly reduced in as little as ten months.
A diet rich in bananas, chickpeas and peanuts improves gut bacteria in malnourished children, helping kick-start their growth, research suggests.
Two studies in Science this week now suggest fostering the right gut microbes may help these children recover. The work also pinpoints combinations of foods that nurture the beneficial microbes.
Dr. Wilson developed the model together with Dr. Steven Hawken, a scientist and big data expert at The Ottawa Hospital and assistant professor at the University of Ottawa. After validating the model using Canadian data, they teamed up with researchers from Bangladesh to try it in another setting.
Low-income countries are most affected by pneumonia: the illness is about three times more common than in developed countries. The first reason for this is that children in rich countries are vaccinated against pneumonia-causing bacteria pneumococcus. This is pricey, though. The vaccination in the United States, for example, requires four doses costing $200 each.
According to Gurley, who led the Surveillance and Outbreak Investigation Unit and directed the Programme on Emerging Infections at ICDDR,B from 2003 to 2015, it's not a matter of if there will be another pandemic on our crowded and degraded planet, it's a question of when, and which disease it will be—Ebola, Disease X, Nipah? She's spent the past 15 years, first at ICDDR,B and now at Johns Hopkins, doing everything in her power to make sure it's not Nipah.
For decades, Dr Jan R. Holmgren and Dr John D. Clemens dedicated themselves to research on an oral vaccine against cholera -- an acute intestinal infection caused by the ingestion of food or water contaminated...
