Story-of-the-week
What is Disease X?According to the World Health
Organization (WHO), “Disease X represents the knowledge that a serious
international epidemic could be caused by a pathogen currently unknown to cause
human disease.According to a UK health expert,
Disease X could lead to another pandemic more lethal than Covid-19 and could
claim at least 50 mill...
Clinical Neurophysiology: April 2023Long term symptoms following
COVID-19 (Long COVID) now affects a large number of patients with estimates of
up to 100 million people world-wide.Prolonged “long-COVID” (P-L–COVID),
seen several months after even a mild COVID-19 infection, is characterized by a
complexity of neuromuscular, musculoskeletal, and...
TAKE HOME MESSAGE Aspartame, one of the world’s most
popular artificial sweeteners, is expected to be labeled a possible carcinogen
by The International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) arm of the World
Health Organization (WHO).A popular artificial sweetener used
in thousands of products worldwide including Diet Coke, ice-cream and chewing...
Dengue is the most common
mosquito-borne, viral disease in the world. Dengue virus is a single stranded
positive polarity RNA virus, belongs to the family Flaviviridae. The Den-2 and Den-3 variants of
dengue are active this year and of the two, Den-2 is more prominent, according
to the Institute of Epidemiology, Disease Control and Researc...
Clinicians should be more judicious in prescribing or
recommending oral or topical antifungal therapy.Given the limited selection of antifungals, it is paramount
to mitigate resistant cases. Mitigation proposals include:·
good
skin hygiene,· &nb...
AACE Endocrine Practice Journal: Published
on May, 2022Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease
(NAFLD) is part of a multisystemic disease and is closely associated with
obesity, insulin resistance (IR), type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2D), hypertension,
and atherogenic dyslipidemia. The definition of NAFLD is based on
the presence of hepatic steatosis in...
OVERVIEWTotal official hospitalizations in
Bangladesh were 2,573 since January, 2023 according to a press release of the
Directorate General of Health Services.Of the total hospitalization this
year, 1,870 were reported in Dhaka city and 703 in other places outside the
Dhaka city. The mosquito-borne viral disease killed 17 people so far this ye...
Omicron subvariant XBB.1.16, the strain was first identified in January and has been monitored by the World Health Organisation (WHO) since 22 March, which upgraded it to a “variant of interest” in mid-April.Cases of Omicron variant XBB are mounting in China, forming a new wave expected to crest around 65 million cases...
Frontiers in Endocrinology: Published on March 2021Hypothyroidism is a common
condition caused by thyroid hormone deficiency. The prevalence of hypothyroidism
increases with age and subclinical hypothyroidism affects up to 15% of adults
65 years of age or older.Levothyroxine (L-T4) treatment of
overt hypothyroidism can be more challenging...
WHAT IS ASD AND HOW IS IT DEFINED
IN THE DSM-5?Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a
neurodevelopmental disorder with onset in early childhood that is associated
with a wide range of symptoms and ability levels. As defined by the Diagnostic
and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition (DSM-5), Autism
Spectrum Disorder is a complex n...
JAMA Network: November, 2022After the worldwide outbreak
leading to millions of acute cases and thousands of deaths, another important
development is the occurrence or persistence of symptoms after the acute phase
of SARS-CoV-2 infection (ie, long COVID or post–COVID-19).More than 100 post–COVID-19
symptoms affecting multiple systems (eg, cardi...
BMJ Journals: Gut: Published on March, 2023Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is
a chronic immune-mediated disease of the bowel, comprising two main subtypes:
Crohn’s disease (CD) and ulcerative colitis (UC).There is an increasing incidence of
inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) for which environmental factors is suspected.
Antibiotics have been ass...
