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Health

1 in 4 adults suffers from hypertension; experts call for adequate funding

According to WHO’s first Global Report on Hypertension 2023, 2.73 lakh people died of cardiovascular disease in 2019 in Bangladesh and 54% of these fatalities were attributable to hypertension.

A pre-Incan mummy unearthed at the Cajamarquilla archaeological site and believed to be between 800 and 1,200 years old is exhibited at the Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, in Lima, Peru February 22, 2022.Photo: Reuters

World+Biz

AstraZeneca shots should be halted for over-60s too - EMA official

Court

Writ filed seeking to get all adults vaccinated

Phlebotomist Jenee Wilson talks with Melissa Cruz, an ER technician for Valley Medical Center who has recovered from the coronavirus disease (Covid-19) she contracted from a patient, as she finishes donating convalescent plasma at the Central Seattle Donor Center of Bloodworks Northwest during the outbreak in Seattle, Washington, US April 17, 2020. The plasma from recovered patients will be used in an experimental treatment study for current coronavirus patients/ Reuters

Coronavirus chronicle

Young, healthy adults with mild Covid-19 also take weeks to recover

Coronavirus chronicle