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YouTube stars 'persuade kids to eat more'

YouTube stars 'persuade kids to eat more'

-- 2018-05-26 11:43:57

Social media stars might be encouraging children to eat more unhealthy snacks, a new study suggests. It found children who saw popular vloggers consuming sugary and fatty snacks went on to eat 26 per...

Fifty million Bangladeshis suffering from Thyroid: Experts

Fifty million Bangladeshis suffering from Thyroid: Experts

-- 2018-05-25 18:24:42

Experts have said 50 million Bangladeshis are suffering from Thyroid hormone of which thirty million don't even know about their problem. The information was revealed on Friday at a press briefing or...

Cars kept under sun may kill kids inside: Study

Cars kept under sun may kill kids inside: Study

-- 2018-05-25 16:21:58

American researchers revealed how different types of cars warmed up on hot days when exposed to shade and sunlight and how these differences would affect the body temperature of a hypothetical two-yea...

US to send experimental Ebola treatment to Congo: Official

US to send experimental Ebola treatment to Congo: Official

-- 2018-05-24 13:56:11

US health authorities said on Wednesday they were preparing to send an experimental Ebola treatment to the Democratic Republic of Congo for use in a clinical trial aimed at stemming an outbreak in the...

Second Indian state reports cases of rare virus

Second Indian state reports cases of rare virus

-- 2018-05-23 16:46:55

Indian health officials were checking on Wednesday if a rare, brain-damaging virus had spread to a second state after two suspected cases reported in southern Karnataka, as the death toll in adjacent...

US aid cuts squeeze family planning services

US aid cuts squeeze family planning services

-- 2018-05-22 13:53:35

The Marie Stopes Ladies who drive from village to village in the remote north of Burkina Faso offering free contraception, advice on family planning, sexual health and sometimes abortion, may have to...

Six-day conference of WHO to begin Monday

Six-day conference of WHO to begin Monday

-- 2018-05-20 18:12:35

The 71st conference of the World Health Organisation (WHO) is set to begin on Monday in Geneva, Switzerland. A team, led by Health and Family Welfare Mohammed Nasim, reached Geneva to attend the con...

China-Europe cooperation in Esthetic Dentistry on rise

China-Europe cooperation in Esthetic Dentistry on rise

-- 2018-05-20 14:47:04

Academics and dentists have praised the increased cooperation between China and Europe on Esthetic Dentistry on the sidelines of an international congress on this field, which concluded Saturday. The...

Trump proposes defunding abortion providers

Trump proposes defunding abortion providers

-- 2018-05-19 14:31:45

US President Donald Trump on Friday issued a proposal that would effectively stop giving government funds that subsidise birth control for low-income women to Planned Parenthood and other clinics that...

Cultural shift marks a drop in US birth rates

Cultural shift marks a drop in US birth rates

-- 2018-05-18 14:54:18

Births in the US have dropped to their lowest rate in 30 years, marking a cultural shift as women delay motherhood, experts say. Some 3.85 million babies were born in the US in 2017, the fewest since...

Over 75pc pasteurised milk unsafe for direct consumption: icddr,b

Over 75pc pasteurised milk unsafe for direct consumption: icddr,b

-- 2018-05-17 19:16:23

More than 75 per cent of all pasteurised milk marketed in Bangladesh is unsafe for direct consumption. Researchers at the icddr,b revealed the disturbing findings about the commercially pasteurised m...

Three advices for cardiovascular patients during Ramadan

Three advices for cardiovascular patients during Ramadan

-- 2018-05-17 18:05:34

Cardiovascular patients should follow three guidelines during the holy month of Ramadan to stay safe from heart failure or other severe ailments. According to cardiologist Dr Jahanara Arzu, a patient...

Body clock disruptions result in mood disorders

Body clock disruptions result in mood disorders

-- 2018-05-17 10:59:50

Disruption to the body's internal clock may put people at increased risk of mood disorders, scientists say. A clock ticks in nearly every cell of the body. And they change how the tissues work in a d...

Over 75pc pasteurised milk not safe for direct consumption

Over 75pc pasteurised milk not safe for direct consumption

FE Report 2018-05-17 09:38:10

More than 75 per cent of all pasteurised milk available in the local market is unsafe for direct consumption, according to findings of a study revealed Wednesday. At every stage of the dairy value...

14pc adult people suffer from hypertension: Report

14pc adult people suffer from hypertension: Report

-- 2018-05-16 19:02:34

Hypertension is one of the major Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs) which affects 14 per cent of the adult population in Bangladesh. The information was revealed in 'Bangladesh Health Watch Report' und...

Eliminate industrially-produced trans-fatty acids: WHO

Eliminate industrially-produced trans-fatty acids: WHO

-- 2018-05-16 13:25:57

The World Health Organization (WHO) recently called for elimination of industrially-produced trans-fatty acids from the global food supply by 2023, which is estimated to cause more than 500,000 deaths...

Scientists combating to cure common cold

Scientists combating to cure common cold

-- 2018-05-15 12:39:58

UK scientists believe they may have found a way to combat the common cold. Rather than attacking the virus itself, which comes in hundreds of versions, the treatment targets the human host. It block...

First-ever int'l nursing conference held in city

First-ever int'l nursing conference held in city

-- 2018-05-14 17:38:56

Bangladesh's first-ever international nursing conference titled 'Higher Nursing Education: Trends and Challenges' was held in the newly launched National Institute of Advanced Nursing Education and Re...

Aedes larvae rife in Dhaka warns of rainy season

Aedes larvae rife in Dhaka warns of rainy season

-- 2018-05-14 13:26:53

Despite preventative measures, Dhaka has not received any respite from the prevalent mosquito problem that spread diseases like dengi and chikungunya last year. Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) re...

Rajshahi marks Int’l Nurses Day-2018

Rajshahi marks Int’l Nurses Day-2018

-- 2018-05-13 12:07:01

The role of the nurse is fulfilled when met with efficiency through serving patients with affection and humanity. The country needs skilled and devoted nurses. Such observation came at a post-rally d...

Breastfeeding saves mothers' lives, too: Unicef

Breastfeeding saves mothers' lives, too: Unicef

-- 2018-05-13 12:00:26

Babies in South Asia are more likely to be breastfed than any other region in the world and are breastfed for longer, Unicef said in a new analysis released on Sunday. In Bangladesh, only 51 per cent...

222 hearing impaired poor patients get normal life under BSMMU project

222 hearing impaired poor patients get normal life under BSMMU project

-- 2018-05-12 20:54:27

A total of 222 hearing impaired people have been leading normal life overcoming their impairment by having surgeries and hearing cochlear implants (CI) provided by Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical Uni...

London mayor bans junk food ads on public transport

London mayor bans junk food ads on public transport

-- 2018-05-12 13:15:30

London plans to ban junk food advertising on its entire public transport network to tackle child obesity, which is among the highest in Europe, Mayor Sadiq Kahn said on Friday. Almost 40 per cent of...

Air ambulances test app technology to view patients

Air ambulances test app technology to view patients

-- 2018-05-11 14:32:54

A new app which allows air ambulance services to view and pre-read patients before they arrive to treat them is being conducted on a trial process in two areas of England. The GoodSam app sends a lin...

New US regulation tackles obesity

New US regulation tackles obesity

-- 2018-05-10 15:29:20

A US regulation that went into effect recently directs chain restaurants to label calories on their menus, in an effort to encourage people to consume in moderation. The rule, rolled out in 2014, app...

Baldness has a potential new cure now

Baldness has a potential new cure now

-- 2018-05-09 13:20:41

A potential new cure for baldness has been discovered using a drug originally intended to treat osteoporosis. Enhanced hair growth is a side-effect of a different drug, cyclosporine A, used to treat...

Narsingdi marks World Red Cross Day

Narsingdi marks World Red Cross Day

-- 2018-05-08 15:15:49

The world Red Crescent and Red Cross day was observed on Tuesday in the district as elsewhere in the country with the theme of "everywhere for everyone". Narsingdi Red Crescent Society unite organis...

World Thalassemia Day Tuesday

World Thalassemia Day Tuesday

-- 2018-05-07 18:26:13

The World Thalassemia Day will be observed in the country as elsewhere across the globe on Tuesday to create awareness about the deadly disease and the importance of blood donation. The theme of this...

Massive cholera vaccination campaign begins in Rohingya camps

Massive cholera vaccination campaign begins in Rohingya camps

FE Online Report 2018-05-06 20:22:32

A massive cholera vaccination campaign began on Sunday in Ukhiya and Teknaf sub-districts to protect nearly one million Rohingyas from potential outbreak of the disease during the ongoing monsoon seas...

Mumbai hospital brings its renowned doctors in Bangladesh

Mumbai hospital brings its renowned doctors in Bangladesh

FE Online Desk 2018-05-06 11:47:08

A Mumbai hospital has brought its renowned doctors to Bangladesh for the first time for a medical seminar and OPD programme in the field of cancer care, organ transplants and complex neurosurgery.&nbs...