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Devi Shetty inaugurates Imperial Hospital in Chattogram

Devi Shetty inaugurates Imperial Hospital in Chattogram

-- 2019-06-15 17:20:59

Renowned Indian cardiac surgeon Devi Shetty has inaugurated a 375-bed hospital in Chattogram. Shetty, the founder of the Narayana Health in India, launched the Imperial Hospital on Saturday. The new...

You may be eating a credit card's worth of plastic each week: Study

You may be eating a credit card's worth of plastic each week: Study

-- 2019-06-12 17:29:10

Plastic pollution is so widespread in the environment that you may be ingesting five grams a week, the equivalent of eating a credit card, a study commissioned by the environmental charity WWF Interna...

Five ways we can feed the world in 2050

Five ways we can feed the world in 2050

Greg Foot, BBC 2019-06-08 18:43:20

As our global population continues to rise, some estimates suggest it could reach a whopping 10 billion people by 2050. To feed that many people, we will need to produce record quantities of food. Th...

India fears new outbreak of Nipah virus

India fears new outbreak of Nipah virus

-- 2019-06-06 17:39:33

India has put more than 300 people under surveillance after a 23-year-old man was diagnosed with the Nipah virus, a rare and often deadly disease. Authorities in the southern Indian state of Kerala s...

Nipah virus resurfaces in Kerala

Nipah virus resurfaces in Kerala

-- 2019-06-04 16:11:32

The deadly brain-damaging Nipah virus has resurfaced in the southern Indian state of Kerala a year after it killed 17 people, state officials said on Tuesday. A 23-year-old student tested positive fo...

'Pumping heart patch' ready for human use

'Pumping heart patch' ready for human use

-- 2019-06-04 15:55:46

A "pumping" patch containing millions of living, beating stem cells could help repair the damage caused by a heart attack, according to researchers. Sewn on to the heart, the 3cm (1in) by 2cm patch,...

'Air pollution causes 7.0m premature deaths each year'

'Air pollution causes 7.0m premature deaths each year'

-- 2019-06-03 20:12:44

UN Special Rapporteur on human rights and the environment David Boyd on Monday urged governments to take bold action to beat air pollution, improve health, address climate change and fulfil their huma...

Transgender no longer recognised as 'disorder' by WHO

Transgender no longer recognised as 'disorder' by WHO

-- 2019-05-30 16:59:44

Transgender health issues will no longer be classified as mental and behavioural disorders under big changes to the World Health Organization's global manual of diagnoses. The newly-approved version...

Hydraulic horn causes serious harm to children: Experts

Hydraulic horn causes serious harm to children: Experts

-- 2019-05-30 16:25:53

Hydraulic horn is one of the immeasurable means of sound pollution that causes serious health problems, especially to the children, said former Vice-Chancellor of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical Univ...

480,000 die from non-communicable diseases in BD annually

480,000 die from non-communicable diseases in BD annually

FE Online Report 2019-05-29 18:18:50

As many as 480,000 people die annually in the country from non-communicable diseases (NCDs), a study has found. Major NCDs include diabetes, kidney failure, stroke, heart attack and cancer. Over 8.0...

Male beauty quest ‘damages fertility’

Male beauty quest ‘damages fertility’

-- 2019-05-28 12:51:31

Scientists have uncovered an evolutionary paradox where men damage their ability to have children during efforts to make themselves look more attractive. Taking steroids to get a buff physique or ant...

One in five deaths linked to unhealthy diet

One in five deaths linked to unhealthy diet

-- 2019-05-21 20:33:43

Eleven million deaths worldwide in 2017 were linked to people eating poor diets high in sugar, salt and processed meat that contributed to heart disease, cancer and diabetes, a global study found. Th...

72nd World Health Assembly to start Monday

72nd World Health Assembly to start Monday

-- 2019-05-19 18:17:34

The 72nd World Health Assembly is going to start on Monday with an aim to overcome barriers to ensure universal health coverage of the mankind across the world. Swiss President Ueli Maurer will inaug...

'Mobile radiation exposure not harmful for human health'

'Mobile radiation exposure not harmful for human health'

FE Report 2019-05-19 10:30:00

Posts, Telecommunications and Information Technology Minister Mustafa Jabbar said on Saturday misconception about radiation exposure to humans and environment from mobile phone handset and mobile netw...

One in seven babies born with low birthweight worldwide: Study

One in seven babies born with low birthweight worldwide: Study

FE Online Report 2019-05-17 17:34:05

More than 20 million babies were born with a low birthweight (less than 2500g; 5.5 pounds) in 2015—around one in seven of all births worldwide, according to a study. Almost three-quarters of th...

AI-based diabetic retinopathy detection now at icddr,b

AI-based diabetic retinopathy detection now at icddr,b

-- 2019-05-13 17:12:02

icddr,b in collaboration with Eyes For All PLC, United Arab Emirates and DIAGNOS Inc, Canada on Monday launched an artificial intelligence (AI)-based technology for the detection of diabetic retinopat...

Hundreds with heat-related syndromes admitted to hospitals

Hundreds with heat-related syndromes admitted to hospitals

-- 2019-05-11 17:06:39

The International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (ICDDR,B) and other major health facilities in the capital have already admitted hundreds with heat-related syndromes as excessivel...

Experts for electrophoresis blood test to prevent thalassemia

Experts for electrophoresis blood test to prevent thalassemia

-- 2019-05-08 20:24:38

Health experts at a post rally discussion on Wednesday stressed inspiring youths to conduct electrophoresis blood tests before getting married to prevent the genetically inherited disease of thalassem...

Measles infects 34,000 in Europe

Measles infects 34,000 in Europe

-- 2019-05-07 21:37:25

More than 34,000 people across Europe caught measles in the first two months of 2019, with the vast majority of cases in Ukraine, the World Health Organization said on Tuesday as it urged authorities...

 Experts stress expansion of nursing, midwifery edn

 Experts stress expansion of nursing, midwifery edn

-- 2019-05-06 18:38:01

Speakers at programme here have underscored the need for increased investment in nursing and midwifery professions as these are playing a key role in achieving ‘health for all’ in the coun...

Doctors’ believe Vinci’s ‘claw hand’ stopped him painting

Doctors’ believe Vinci’s ‘claw hand’ stopped him painting

-- 2019-05-05 18:56:48

Leonardo da Vinci could have experienced nerve damage in a fall, impeding his ability to paint in later life, Italian doctors suggest. They diagnosed ulnar palsy, or "claw hand", by analysing the dep...

Int’l Midwife Day on Sunday

Int’l Midwife Day on Sunday

-- 2019-05-04 19:23:20

The International Day of the Midwife (IDM) 2019 will be observed in the country on Sunday as elsewhere in the world. The day is being observed as a mark of recognition to the contribution of midwives...

Hepatologists stress safe water to curb Hepatitis E

Hepatologists stress safe water to curb Hepatitis E

Md Jahangir Alam 2019-04-27 22:28:39

The prevalence of Jaundice (from Hepatitis E virus) may lead to an alarming level unless safe drinking water is ensured for all. Leading hepatologists of the country came up with the observation at a...

Nutrition Olympiad 2019 to be held on Saturday

Nutrition Olympiad 2019 to be held on Saturday

FE Online Report 2019-04-25 14:11:23

The third edition of ‘Nutrition Olympiad’ will be held in Dhaka city on Saturday aiming to promote healthy diet and nutrition in the country. The day-long programme at the Bangabandhu Int...

Innovative child malaria vaccine  to be tested in Malawi

Innovative child malaria vaccine to be tested in Malawi

-- 2019-04-23 21:32:46

A large-scale trial of what has been called the world's first malaria vaccine to give partial protection to children is due to start in Malawi, reports BBC. The RTS,S vaccine trains the immune system...

Alarming rise in caesarian deliveries, says icddr,b

Alarming rise in caesarian deliveries, says icddr,b

-- 2019-04-20 09:34:30

Families may be spending the highest amount from their pockets for caesarian section deliveries among different child delivery-related expenses in Bangladesh, said a recent icddr,b analysis. C-sectio...

HIV used to cure ‘bubble boy’ disease

HIV used to cure ‘bubble boy’ disease

-- 2019-04-18 13:59:09

US scientists say they used HIV to make a gene therapy that cured eight infants of severe combined immunodeficiency, or ‘bubble boy’ disease. Results of the research, developed at a Tenne...

WHO releases first guideline on digital health interventions

WHO releases first guideline on digital health interventions

-- 2019-04-17 18:02:48

The World Health Organization(WHO) on Wednesday released new recommendations on 10 ways that countries can use digital health technology, accessible via mobile phones, tablets and computers, to improv...

Life expectancy: Underwriting guidelines need overhaul

Life expectancy: Underwriting guidelines need overhaul

Jasim Uddin Haroon 2019-04-16 11:24:54

Life firms' underwriting guidelines need to be reformed due to the country's rapidly growing life expectancy, according to a study. The paper presented at a seminar in the city last week said such re...

India facing shortage of 0.60m doctors: Study

India facing shortage of 0.60m doctors: Study

-- 2019-04-14 20:31:04

India has shortage of an estimated 0.60 million doctors and 2.0 million nurses, according to the report by the Center for Disease Dynamics, Economics & Policy (CDDEP). The scientists also found t...