What will love and death mean in the age of machine intelligence?
Asya Demidova for Vox We already rely on AI to find our soulmate, and soon we might use it to hack death. But we risk losing what it means to be human. When I was 17, I left my home in Bangladesh to go to college in the United States. I took three flights, spent 11 hours waiting for a connection…#asyademidova #heathrowairport #dhaka #massachusetts #nt #yuvalnoah #thai #cambridge #creepy #tinder (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - September 7, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Association of workplace bullying and burnout with nurses' suicidal ideation in Bangladesh - Kabir H, Chowdhury SR, Roy AK, Chowdhury SA, Islam MN, Chomon RJ, Akter M, Hossain A.
Suicidal ideation is a complex phenomenon influenced by several predisposing, contextual, and mediating factors that seem more common among healthcare workers, especially nurses. We investigated the association of bullying and burnout with suicidal ideatio... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - September 7, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Economics of Injury and Safety, PTSD, Injury Outcomes Source Type: news
Singapore opens door wider to foreign workers at hotels, restaurants
SINGAPORE -- As tourists return, Singapore is casting a wider net for workers to support its understaffed service sector. People from Bangladesh, India, Myanmar, the Philippines, Sri Lanka and Thailand became eligible on Friday for a permit in Singapore to work in one of nine occupations.#singapore #myanmar #philippines #srilanka #thailand (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - September 4, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Midwife-led pandemic telemedicine services for maternal health and gender-based violence screening in Bangladesh: an implementation research case study - Islam A, Begum F, Williams A, Basri R, Ara R, Anderson R.
BACKGROUND: The COVID-19 pandemic disrupted maternal and newborn health services in Bangladesh, exacerbating the large gaps in service utilization that existed prior to the pandemic. As part of its response, Bangladesh initiated remote antenatal and postna... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - August 31, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Jurisprudence, Laws, Legislation, Policies, Rules Source Type: news
COVID-19 impact on travel and work habits of office workers in Bangladesh - Hossain S, Islam MA, Akther MS.
The SARS-CoV-2 virus has brought unprecedented change to the world. Distancing measures make people find an alternative way to interact with others and fulfill their duty. It is acknowledged that the epidemic has dramatically impacted people's work schedul... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - August 31, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Engineering, Physics, Structural Soundness and Failure Source Type: news
Accidental poisoning with aconite overdose: a case report and resuscitative emergency management in a tertiary level hospital of Bangladesh - Majumder MI, Mahadi AR, Rahman OU, Roy BK, Shihab HM.
Intoxication with aconite, a common over-the-counter herbal medicine in Asia, can result in ventricular tachycardia and cardiac arrest and requires heart rate monitoring in a critical care setting and aggressive use of antiarrhythmica. Educational efforts ... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - August 30, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Alcohol and Other Drugs Source Type: news
Bangladesh disappearances may spike ahead of polls: rights groups
DHAKA -- Sanjida Islam hasn't seen her brother Sajedul since the political activist vanished from his home in Dhaka just before elections nearly a decade ago, one of hundreds allegedly abducted by security forces in Bangladesh. Now, as Wednesday marks International Day of the Victims of Enforced…#dhaka #islam #sajedul (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - August 30, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Effect of workplace violence on health workers injuries and workplace absenteeism in Bangladesh - Shahjalal M, Parvez Mosharaf M, Mahumud RA.
BACKGROUND: Workplace violence (WPV) is an emerging problem for health workers (HWs) and a global concern in health systems. Scientific literatures infer that WPV against HWs is often attributed to workplace injuries and absenteeism, leading to a series of... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - August 28, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Economics of Injury and Safety, PTSD, Injury Outcomes Source Type: news
Exploring the impact of on-street parking in Chittagong City, Bangladesh - Haider MA, Islam MT, Hasan SM.
Urban mobility and on-street parking management is a vital challenge in the big cities of developing countries like Chittagong City of Bangladesh. This research explored the on-street vehicle parking situation and its impact on the city dwellers in Chittag... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - August 28, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Engineering, Physics, Structural Soundness and Failure Source Type: news
Levels and trends in mortality and causes of death among women of reproductive age in Bangladesh: findings from three national surveys - Nahar Q, Alam A, Mahmud K, Sathi SS, Chakraborty N, Siddique AB, Rahman AE, Streatfield PK, Jamil K, El Arifeen S.
BACKGROUND: Information on the mortality rate and proportional cause-specific mortality is essential for identifying diseases of public health importance, design programmes, and formulating policies, but such data on women of reproductive age in Bangladesh... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - August 28, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Age: Adolescents Source Type: news
Blood-thinner to treat heart disease proves ineffective for many South Asian patients due to a mutation in their DNA
More than half of those with Bangladeshi and Pakistani ancestry have a genetic mutation that stops the drug clopidogrel from working properly, a study suggests. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - August 26, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Involvement of human and organizational factors in railway accidents: application of the human factors analysis and classification system and Bayesian network - Bhuiyan MRH, Ibtihal SA, Nokshi KN.
The occurrence of railway accidents is not always the result of error/violation on the operator's end; rather, there are many organizational factors involved. This research investigated 97 railway accident reports from the West Zone of Bangladesh Railway b... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - August 26, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Distraction, Fatigue, Chronobiology, Vigilance, Workload Source Type: news
Filicide-suicide by hanging involving an autistic child: a rare case report - Shubha NS, Hossain S, Griffiths MD.
Filicide-suicide is an area of growing interest in the field of forensic psychiatry. Using multiple media reports, the present report describes a case of filicide-suicide in Bangladesh in which a 55-year-old father killed his 14-year-old autistic son by ha... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - August 25, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Age: Adolescents Source Type: news
Common cardiovascular medication ineffective for majority of British South Asians
A new genetic study has found that cardiovascular medication used to prevent heart attacks is much less likely to benefit people of Bangladeshi and Pakistani ancestry than people of European descent. Scientists at Queen Mary University in London discovered that clopidogrel, a commonly prescribed medication used to prevent further heart attacks after an initial event,... Read moreThe post Common cardiovascular medication ineffective for majority of British South Asians appeared first on Nursing in Practice. (Source: Nursing in Practice)
Source: Nursing in Practice - August 24, 2023 Category: Nursing Authors: Carolyn Scott Tags: Cardiology Health inequality Source Type: news
Mental health and suicide risk among homosexual males in Bangladesh - Mozumder MK, Jasmine UH, Haque MA, Haque S.
BACKGROUND: Homosexual individuals are at high risk of suicide, but there is a shortage of data from developing countries to confirm this. Estimates on mental health and suicide risk among male homosexuals in Bangladesh are needed to generate awareness and... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - August 17, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Age: Adolescents Source Type: news
