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30m babies born premature, sick globally every year: Study

-- 2018-12-14 16:28:49

Nearly 30 million babies are born prematurely or become sick every year and of those 2.5 million die, mostly from preventable causes, a global coalition of concerned organisations said in a new report...

Vaccines group plots path through conflict, instability, epidemics

-- 2018-12-13 13:44:23

More children worldwide are now immunised against killer diseases but the task has become harder due to conflicts, epidemics, urbanisation and migration, the head of a global vaccine group said. Seth...

‘Blood test to save millions from blindness’

-- 2018-12-12 13:55:55

Australian scientists have developed a blood test capable of saving millions of people around the world from going blind. Researchers from Australian National University (ANU) on Wednesday revealed t...

24-hour ‘Army Health Service’ launched

-- 2018-12-11 17:52:16

‘Army Health Service’ was launched at Combined Military Hospital (CMH) aimed at providing 24-hours emergency supports to CMH patients. Chief of Army Staff General Aziz Ahmed inaugurated t...

Puzzle solving 'won't stop mental decline'

-- 2018-12-11 13:56:02

Doing crossword puzzles and Sudoku does not protect against mental decline, according to a new study. The idea of "use it or lose it" when it comes to our brains in later life has previously been wid...

Bangladeshi scientist makes cancer test easy

-- 2018-12-09 12:10:29

A Bangladeshi scientist and two other researchers have made a breakthrough in cancer testing by inventing a new method that is as simple as a blood test. But it will still take time to make the test...

Patients suffer at Bishwanath health complex in Sylhet

-- 2018-12-08 11:56:50

Patients of Bishwanath upazila are being deprived of government healthcare facilities due to alleged absence of doctors at the upazila health complex and other irregularities. Patients alleged that t...

Most schools still lack access to improved sanitation

Kamrun Nahar 2018-12-08 10:35:48

Most of the educational institutions have yet to comply with the government's directives to improve sanitation due to lack of monitoring system, experts said. To this end, the education ministry issu...

US healthcare spending growth slows further

-- 2018-12-07 14:28:57

Healthcare spending growth in the United States slowed for the second year in a row in 2017, mainly due to slower spending growth for hospital care, physician and clinical services as well as retail p...

Libya launches vaccination campaign for children

-- 2018-12-06 14:11:12

Libya's Health Ministry launched a vaccination campaign for 2.75 million children in the country on Wednesday. Badr Addeen al-Najjar, director of the ministry's centre for disease control, said the n...

BRAC Bank’s TARA Loan customers to get spl privileges with Tonic package

FE Online Desk 2018-12-06 12:54:07

BRAC Bank Limited signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Telenor Health. Under the agreement, the TARA Loan customers of Retail and SME Segment and TARA Platinum credit card cardholders of...

World’s first baby born via deceased womb transplant

-- 2018-12-05 13:37:00

A woman in Brazil who received a womb transplanted from a deceased donor has given birth to a baby girl in the first successful case of its kind, doctors reported. The case, published in The Lancet m...

IDSC distributes devices to people with disabilities

-- 2018-12-04 12:54:32

Integrated Disability Service Centre (IDSC) has distributed assistive devices to a total of 105 people with disabilities in Gaibandha district on Monday. Marking the 27th International and 20th Natio...

Int’l Day of Persons with Disabilities Monday

-- 2018-12-02 17:16:28

International Day of Persons with Disabilities and National Disabled Day-2018 will be observed in the country as elsewhere in the world tomorrow (Monday) aiming to create mass awareness to extend supp...

66 found HIV positive in Sylhet

-- 2018-12-02 13:59:01

At least 66 new patients have been tested HIV positive in Sylhet district till November this year, says a report released by a local voluntary organisation on Sunday. Among the affected, a total of 9...

Three in five Bangladeshi children ‘physically inactive’

-- 2018-12-02 13:22:47

A new report shows that three out of five young people in Bangladesh do not meet the WHO recommendations for daily physical activity. The Report Card published in the Journal of Physical Activity and...

FDA to share HIV drug information with WHO

-- 2018-12-01 14:55:30

The United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced Friday a plan to work with the World Health Organization (WHO) to expedite review of HIV drug applications. FDA decided to pilot a proce...

Global measles resurging, WHO warns

-- 2018-11-30 17:22:43

There has been a worldwide resurgence of measles, with many countries experiencing "severe and protracted" outbreaks last year, a report warns. The World Health Organization data shows a rise in case...

Experts stress ensuring adolescent health services

-- 2018-11-30 11:58:47

Administrative high officials and health experts in Rajshahi unequivocally called for ensuring adolescent friendly and reproductive health services to the target group, including teenagers, for the sa...

One in three suffers from liver disease in Bangladesh

Md Jahangir Alam 2018-11-29 21:44:14

One in every three people is suffering from liver disease in Bangladesh and there is only one hepatologist for a population of 2.0 million. 10 million Bangladeshis are diagnosed with chronic hepatiti...

Unicef predicts 80 adolescent deaths by AIDS each day by 2030

-- 2018-11-29 18:22:17

Around 80 adolescents will die of AIDS globally every day by 2030 as per current trends and the HIV prevalence among general population in Bangladesh remains low (<0.1 per cent). Unicef came up wi...

Gunfire, threats and curfews slow Congo's fight against Ebola

-- 2018-11-29 13:41:42

When medics tried to reach Ebola patients in a village in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo during a recent surge in violence, they were blocked by men wielding machetes and axes. Worried about be...

Chinese scientist defends 'gene-editing'

-- 2018-11-28 13:12:26

A Chinese scientist who claims to have created the world's first genetically edited babies has defended his work. Speaking at a genome summit in Hong Kong, He Jiankui, an associate professor at a She...

Biodiversity loss threatens humankind: UN report

-- 2018-11-27 13:26:17

The UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) warned in a report that the alarming loss of biodiversity threatens devastating consequences for humankind if it goes unchecked. Changes to climate may...

England marks 10 years between rich-poor life expectancy gap: Study

-- 2018-11-25 14:00:38

The life expectancy gap between the most affluent and the most deprived members of society in England widened to nearly 10 years, British researchers have found. The study analysed a total of 7.65 mi...

China's Xiamen airlines stops serving pork on flights

-- 2018-11-24 13:43:31

China’s Xiamen airlines said it would stop serving pork on flights from Nov 24 due to African swine fever outbreaks, CAAC News, a publication run by China’s aviation regulator, reported on...

Sudan, neighbouring countries sign health pact

-- 2018-11-23 15:02:04

Sudan and its neighbouring countries signed Khartoum declaration on enhancing health security across the border. The declaration was signed on Thursday by Sudan, Chad, Ethiopia, Egypt, Libya and Sout...

BSMMU launches textbook on nephrology

-- 2018-11-22 17:11:39

A textbook titled, ‘Principles and Practice of Nephrology’ has been launched for the undergraduate and post-graduate students of the nephrology department aimed at reducing dependence on f...

Mexican fish may offer heart healing clues

-- 2018-11-22 14:54:24

A fish that can repair its heart may hold clues for future treatments in people, according to a study. Scientists studying the Mexican tetra fish found three areas of the fish genome were involved in...

Deadliest year for dengue fever in Bangladesh

-- 2018-11-21 14:42:32

Dengue season usually begins with June’s monsoon rains in Dhaka. An unavoidable fact of life, it proves deadly to a handful of unfortunate victims but by September it has mostly disappeared fr...