Fazle Rabbi Chowdhury, Gourab Dewan, Vasundhara Verma, Duleeka Knipe et al.
Background: Pesticide self-poisoning is a major problem in Bangladesh. Over the past 20-years, the Bangladesh government has introduced pesticide legislation and banned highly hazardous pesticides (HHPs) from agricultural use. We aimed to assess the impacts of pesticide bans on suicide and on agricu...
Ishrat Tahsin Isha, Zahidul Alam, Bidur Kanti Shaha, Md Shafiqul Bari et al.
BACKGROUND: Since Bangladesh government issued a ban on the use of highly toxic WHO Class I pesticides, annual consumption of herbicides like Paraquat have been sharply increasing in the markets. Paraquat poisoning is an emerging public health threat and its high mortality rate is responsible for a ...
Parash Ullah, Chowdhury Alamgir, Ishrat Tahsin Isha, Sultan Mahmood et al.
Wasp sting is a relatively common arthropod assault. This usually results in pain and mild allergic reactions, but sometimes may cause severe systemic reaction and multiorgan dysfunction including rhabdomyolysis, hemolysis, coagulopathy, hepatic, renal and cardiac complications. Along with several o...
Md Ismail Patwary, Mohammad Zabed Jillul Bari, Ishrat Tahsin Isha
Sepsis is a systemic, deleterious host response to infection leading to acute organ dysfunction secondary to documented or suspected infection and septic shock i.e. sepsis plus hypotension not reversed with fluid resuscitation. Severe sepsis is a major healthcare problem with an extremely high morta...
Md Ismail Patwary, Mohammad Zabed Jillul Bari, Ishrat Tahsin Isha
Osteoporosis is characterized by low bone density, micro-architectural deterioration of the bone tissue, enhanced bone fragility and increasing susceptibility to fracture. Osteoporosis is an important public health problem leading to an increased risk of developing spontaneous and traumatic fracture...