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Can sleeping more affect your heart?
Currentnews.com.bd If you thought that only less hours of sleep would affect your health, then you are wrong. Sleeping more than 10 hours per day is also associated with metabolic syndrome, raising the risk for More...

Avatar-based app helps recognise heart attack symptoms
Currentnews.com.bd Scientists have developed an app that uses a simulated digital nurse to teach patients how to recognise symptoms of heart attack and call emergency. Patients using the SAVE app are more likely More...

Crucial test of Ebola vaccine raises hopes, doubts in Congo
Currentnews.com.bd Irene Mboyo Mola spent 11 days caring for her husband as he died of Ebola in a hospital where she said nurses were too scared to get close. She helped him to the bathroom, picked up his feverish More...

New HIV vaccine could soon be on the horizon
Currentnews.com.bd Researchers have found a type of regulatory lymphocyte might protect babies in the womb from getting infected with the virus. Researchers have found that Treg cells, a type of regulatory More...

Thyroid dysfunction in pregnancy linked to diabetes risk
Currentnews.com.bd Thyroid dysfunction during the first half of pregnancy may indicate an increased risk for gestational diabetes — a form of diabetes that is typically diagnosed during the second trimester. More...

Childhood cancer survivors may experience sleep problems as adults
Currentnews.com.bd Childhood cancer survivors are more likely to experience sleep problems and daytime sleepiness as adults which may result in greater likelihood of persistent or worsened emotional distress, More...

Depression during pregnancy may affect your child’s sleep
Currentnews.com.bd Does your child have sleeping problem? If yes, your emotions during pregnancy might be to blame as a new study has showed that a mother’s prenatal or post natal depression may lead to problems More...

Nail polish does not affect patient’s oxygen levels: Study
Currentnews.com.bd Despite widespread concern, a recent study shows nail treatments – such as acrylic nails or nail polishes – do not affect the readings of patients’ oxygen levels. Digital More...

‘Russian doll’ hospitals drain Bulgaria’s health system
Currentnews.com.bd If public healthcare in Bulgaria had a face, it could well be the crumbling facade of the public hospital in Lovech, brought to the edge of bankruptcy by a controversial contract with a private More...

Lung cancer risk drops within 5 years of quitting smoking: Study
Currentnews.com.bd Just because you stopped smoking years ago doesn’t mean you’re out of the woods when it comes to developing lung cancer. However, there is still a ray of hope. According More...