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Augmedix Bangladesh plans to create 2000 jobs by 2021

Augmedix Bangladesh plans to create 2000 jobs by 2021

-- 2018-09-25 19:37:53

Information technology company Augmedix Bangladesh plans to create more than 2000 middle income jobs by 2021. The technology-enabled service platform also plans to make successful career paths for th...

Scientists plan to end malaria with gene editing of mosquitoes

Scientists plan to end malaria with gene editing of mosquitoes

BBC 2018-09-25 14:10:57

Researchers have used gene editing to completely eliminate populations of mosquitoes in the lab. The team tested their technique on the mosquito Anopheles gambiae, which transmits malaria. They alte...

14 children die of diphtheria in Indian capital

14 children die of diphtheria in Indian capital

-- 2018-09-25 13:32:30

As many as 14 children have died of diphtheria in the past 15 days in New Delhi, the Indian capital, country’s health officials said recently. These deaths occurred in two government hospitals...

Lebanon reports rising cases of cancer patients

Lebanon reports rising cases of cancer patients

-- 2018-09-23 14:50:00

Caretaker Health Minister Ghassan Hasbani said that the rate of cancer patients in Lebanon has increased by 5.5 per cent yearly from 2005 to 2016, local newspaper Asharq Al Awsat reported recently. "...

‘Urban poor get less access to maternal and child health services’

‘Urban poor get less access to maternal and child health services’

-- 2018-09-22 17:48:08

Comparing to their non-slum urban and village counterparts, community living in urban slums in Bangladesh get far less access to maternal and child health services. Only 29 per cent population of the...

Nilphamari Diabetic Association gets Mercantile Bank donation

Nilphamari Diabetic Association gets Mercantile Bank donation

FE Online Desk 2018-09-22 12:28:30

Mercantile Bank Limited has donated Tk 0.50 million to Nilphamari Diabetic Association for the purpose of extension of their hospital building, says a statement. Kazi Masihur Rahman, Managing Directo...

‘Alcohol kills three million a year’

‘Alcohol kills three million a year’

-- 2018-09-22 12:24:18

More than three million people died in 2016 due to drinking too much alcohol, meaning one in 20 deaths worldwide was linked to harmful drinking, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Friday. Mo...

‘Quitting junk food produces withdrawal symptoms’

‘Quitting junk food produces withdrawal symptoms’

-- 2018-09-21 14:08:42

Quitting junk food produces similar withdrawal-type symptoms suffered by addicts when they attempt to quit using drugs, according to a new US study. The study by the University of Michigan (UM) is be...

Punjab health department starts campaign on dengue

Punjab health department starts campaign on dengue

-- 2018-09-20 15:03:02

The health department in Ludhiana city, in the north Indian state of Punjab, has started dengue awareness campaign under the slogan ‘Friday, Dry Day.’ The health department has tightene...

TB marks 1.6m deaths in 2017: WHO

TB marks 1.6m deaths in 2017: WHO

-- 2018-09-20 13:51:33

Fewer people fell ill and died from tuberculosis (TB) in 2017 but countries are still not doing enough to end the world's deadliest infectious disease by 2030, a World Health Organization (WHO) report...

Macron injects cash to fix France's healthcare system

Macron injects cash to fix France's healthcare system

-- 2018-09-19 13:20:54

President Emmanuel Macron promised extra money and more doctors in rural areas to ease pressure on France’s hospitals, which are creaking under the weight of budget constraints and closures of c...

One child dies every five seconds, reports UN

One child dies every five seconds, reports UN

-- 2018-09-18 13:32:01

An estimated 6.3 million children died before their 15th birthdays in 2017, or one every five seconds, mostly due to a lack of water, sanitation, nutrition and basic healthcare, according to report by...

Australia to start powerful public inquiry into aged-care sector

Australia to start powerful public inquiry into aged-care sector

-- 2018-09-16 16:16:42

Australia will begin a public inquiry, or Royal Commission, into the country’s aged-care sector as a spike in cases of elderly abuse creates a “disturbing trend”, Prime Minister Scot...

New initiative for eradicating malaria in Asia-Pacific

New initiative for eradicating malaria in Asia-Pacific

-- 2018-09-15 12:53:30

At the 2018 World Economic Forum on ASEAN in Vietnam's capital recently, the Asia-Pacific Leaders Malaria Alliance announced support for a new initiative to accelerate the elimination of malaria in th...

Hepatitis B vaccine saving children’s lives across country

Hepatitis B vaccine saving children’s lives across country

-- 2018-09-14 12:48:18

Hepatitis B is an infection of the liver. It can cause scarring of the organ, liver failure, and cancer. It can be fatal if it isn’t treated. Zainal Abedin, a 12-year boy who lived in Gobaria v...

e-Registration of diabetic patients in BD starts

e-Registration of diabetic patients in BD starts

FE Online Desk 2018-09-12 16:32:32

Social Welfare Minister Rashed Khan Menon has launched the country’s first electronic registration (e- registration) of diabetes patient. The listed information in that electronic system will h...

Global hunger rising, UN warns

Global hunger rising, UN warns

-- 2018-09-11 16:43:16

The number of people suffering from hunger has increased during the past three years, after years of decline, a UN report suggests. According to the analysis, 821 million people globally were underno...

Britain confirms first-ever case of rare virus monkeypox

Britain confirms first-ever case of rare virus monkeypox

-- 2018-09-10 18:24:08

Britain's first ever case of monkeypox in a human was confirmed recently, Public Health England (PHE) announced. The patient, a Nigerian national, is undergoing expert treatment in the infectious dis...

Bangladeshi doctor finds simple way to treat infant pneumonia

Bangladeshi doctor finds simple way to treat infant pneumonia

-- 2018-09-09 20:05:23

On his first night as a trainee paediatrician in Sylhet, Bangladesh, Mohamad Chisti watched three children die of pneumonia. Oxygen was being delivered to them, through a face mask or via tubes placed...

Japan finds first swine fever case in 26 years

Japan finds first swine fever case in 26 years

-- 2018-09-09 15:23:31

Japan’s agriculture ministry said on Sunday it had confirmed the country’s first outbreak of swine fever in 26 years and suspended exports of pork and wild boar meat. The fever, a differe...

India reintroduces yoga course in Dhaka

India reintroduces yoga course in Dhaka

FE Online Desk 2018-09-09 14:03:43

The Indian High Commission in Dhaka has announced the reintroduction of its popular yoga course ‘Yoga@ihcdhaka’ at its premises in Baridhara. Classes will begin from Friday September 14th...

Vietnam's health program to enhance people's height, longevity

Vietnam's health program to enhance people's height, longevity

-- 2018-09-08 17:14:27

Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has approved the Vietnam Health Program to improve the well-being, stature, longevity and life quality of Vietnamese people in the 2018-2030 period, Vietnam...

West Nile fever appears again in Czech

West Nile fever appears again in Czech

-- 2018-09-07 13:33:46

West Nile fever has appeared again in Czech after a several-year pause, Hana Zelena, an expert with the Czech National Reference Laboratory for Arboviruses, said on Thursday. Zelena said an infected...

Rangpur launches National Newborn Health Programme

Rangpur launches National Newborn Health Programme

-- 2018-09-06 13:27:28

Health experts at a post-rally discussion have stressed ensuring proper maternal, newborn and child health services to further reduce the neonatal death rate to achieve the sustainable development goa...

BD women at health risk due to inactivity: WHO

BD women at health risk due to inactivity: WHO

-- 2018-09-05 20:11:25

Bangladeshi women are in risks of getting non-communicable diseases such as heart problems and diabetes as they are more physically inactive than men, a new global study said. Insufficient physical...

Infant mortality rate decreased for govt awareness programmes: Nasim

Infant mortality rate decreased for govt awareness programmes: Nasim

-- 2018-09-05 18:16:06

Infant mortality rate has decreased due to awareness programmes taken by the Awami League government. Health and Family Welfare Minister Mohammed Nasim made the comment on Wednesday. “Right no...

WHO warns over global lack of exercise

WHO warns over global lack of exercise

BBC 2018-09-05 11:43:50

Very little progress has been made in reducing levels of inactivity worldwide, experts have warned. A WHO report estimates that more than a quarter of people worldwide - 1.4 billion - are not doing e...

Doctors advised to use 'plain English'

Doctors advised to use 'plain English'

-- 2018-09-04 14:39:57

Doctors are being told to adopt a new policy of writing letters that are easier for patients to understand. The Academy of Medical Royal Colleges says too often correspondence contains complex medica...

Scientists count on gene-editing

Scientists count on gene-editing

-- 2018-09-02 14:37:05

Scientists have for the first time used gene-editing to treat Duchenne muscular dystrophy in a large mammal, a significant step towards effective treatment for people with the disorder. The condition...

England proposes energy drinks ban for children

England proposes energy drinks ban for children

-- 2018-08-30 14:29:57

The sale of energy drinks could be banned in England to anybody under 18, amid fears they are damaging children's health, the prime minister has said. The government has launched a public consultatio...