This randomized clinical trial investigates whether high-efficiency particulate air filters in communal rooms and private bedrooms reduce respiratory infection episodes in care home residents.

DHAKA, Jan 7 (NNN-BSS) – Scores of people, many of them children, have died in parts of Bangladesh, due to cold-related diseases, as of yesterday, since Nov, last year. According to the Directorate General of Health Services, under Bangladesh’s Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, 43 people died due to Acute Respiratory Infection across Bangladesh, from Nov 1 to yesterday, while six others died from diarrhea. Winter in Bangladesh typically lasts from Dec to Feb. In the country’s northern Rangpur region, which faces the Himalayan mountains, 16 people, including nine children, died from cold-related diseases, at the Rangpur Medical College […]

At this time, the risk to the general population remains low. So far in 2025, OPH has confirmed 12 measles infections or cases in Ottawa residents.

Community pharmacies in Wales will trial point-of-care testing (POCT) for c-reactive protein in bacterial respiratory infections, in a bid to support antimicrobial stewardship and provide care closer…