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FE Online Desk 2017-10-21 12:00:00
A seminar titled 'Bangladesh national conference on policy implications of population ageing' will be held Sunday at PKSF auditorium in Dhaka. PKSF and HelpAge International jointly arranged the even...
BBC 2017-10-20 12:00:00
Pollution has been linked to nine million deaths worldwide in 2015, a report in The Lancet has found. Almost all of these deaths occurred in low- and middle-income countries, where pollution could ac...
-- 2017-10-19 01:12:27
Experts at the week-long training programme on cancer styled Cancer Medical Mission-2017 jointly organised by Partners for World Health (PWH) and Rotary Club of Dhaka Mavericks at the National Institu...
BBC 2017-10-18 11:28:32
A drug-based therapy appears to restore breathing in rats paralysed from the neck down by a spinal injury, according to scientists. They hope their "exciting but early" findings could ultimately help...
-- 2017-10-17 08:12:37
Ovaries are responsible for the hormones estrogen and progesterone that bring on periods, contribute to feminine anatomy and sustain pregnancy. However, like most other areas of the body, this helpfu...
Reuters 2017-10-17 02:42:12
An experimental cancer drug discovered by Hutchison China MediTech has demonstrated promising activity in shrinking tumors in lung cancer patients whose disease had worsened following treatment with a...
-- 2017-10-16 12:00:00
The World Food Day (WFD) is being observed in the country as elsewhere in the globe today (Monday). This year’s theme is “Change the future of migration, invest in food security and rural...
BBC 2017-10-16 01:23:20
"Super-sized" chocolate bars are to be banished from hospital shops, canteens and vending machines, NHS (National Health Service) England says. Sweets and chocolate sold in hospitals should be 250 ca...
BBC 2017-10-15 12:39:46
Conjoined twins born in a remote village in the Democratic Republic of Congo have survived a 15-hour journey on the back of a motorbike to be separated. They were then flown to the capital, Kinshasa,...
-- 2017-10-15 06:06:04
The number of deaths due to neurological disorders like Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s disease, stroke and epilepsy has increased by 36.7 per cent worldwide between 1990 and 2015, a study say...
BBC 2017-10-14 11:44:24
A hallucinogen found in magic mushrooms can "reset" the brains of people with untreatable depression, raising hopes of a future treatment, scans suggest. The small study gave 19 patients a single dos...
Reuters 2017-10-12 12:00:00
Married men who see their relationship with their spouse improve over the years may also experience positive changes in their health that can lower the risk of heart disease, a recent U.K. study sugge...
-- 2017-10-11 12:00:00
More children and teenagers in Bangladesh are obese now than before like many other developing countries, a new study suggests blaming food marketing, policies, and pricing, reports bdnews24.com. Ban...
BBC 2017-10-11 12:00:00
Child and teenage obesity levels have risen ten-fold in the last four decades, meaning 124m boys and girls around the globe are too fat, according to new research. The analysis in the Lancet is the l...
-- 2017-10-10 12:41:39
Dhaka is one of the 50 cities of the global network committed to saving lives by preventing non-communicable diseases (NCDs) such as heart problems, cancer, diabetes and injuries. The Bloomberg Phila...
-- 2017-10-10 12:00:00
Health and Family Welfare Minister Mohammed Nasim has said the forcibly displaced Myanmar nationals would be fed with Oral Cholera Vaccine (OCV) from today (Tuesday). "We will start a week-long progr...
-- 2017-10-10 04:36:58
One of nature's smelliest secrets may have been revealed, thanks to a dedicated team of durian-loving scientists in Singapore. Researchers have found an odour gene which gives the thorny fruit its no...
-- 2017-10-09 12:00:00
A potential new drug might protect infants from whooping cough in their first few months of life, before they can be vaccinated, early research suggests. In a new study, researchers gave this drug to...
-- 2017-10-08 07:31:53
According to a new study, a group of researchers found a link between an individual’s gut bacteria and their response to anticancer immune checkpoint inhibitor therapy (ICT). In a recent study,...
-- 2017-10-06 12:00:00
Scientists discovered antiviral potential of piperazine and determined the mechanism of inhibition of Chikungunya virus, reports PTI citing hindustantimes. Scientists at IIT-Roorkee have found that a...
AP 2017-10-05 12:00:00
Only about half of the cancer drugs approved by the European Medicines Agency in the last few years were later shown to help patients live longer or improved their lives, a new study says. Scientists...
BBC 2017-10-04 12:00:00
Health officials from around the world are meeting in France to commit to preventing 90 per cent of cholera deaths by 2030. The disease, which is spread through contaminated water, kills about 0.10 m...
FE Online Reporty 2017-10-04 12:00:00
Cardiovascular diseases are causing 17.5 million deaths in the world every year. But 80 per cent of the deaths caused by heart diseases can be reduced by creating awareness among people about the dis...
Reuters 2017-10-04 03:04:29
The United States is pressing India not to extend price caps on medical devices and wants New Delhi to allow firms to withdraw products from the market if they do not wish to sell at government determ...
BBC 2017-10-03 12:00:00
Bags for life pose a food poisoning risk if they are used to carry raw foods such as meat and fish, a consumer watchdog is warning. The Food Standards Agency says even if there is no leakage, packagi...
-- 2017-09-29 07:39:34
Precise "chemical surgery" has been performed on human embryos to remove disease in a world first, Chinese researchers have told the BBC. The team at Sun Yat-sen University used a technique called ba...
BBC 2017-09-28 12:00:00
A blood test that could rule out a heart attack in under 20 minutes should be used routinely, say UK researchers. A team from King's College London have tested it on patients and say the cMyC test co...
BBC 2017-09-27 12:00:00
A man in France has regained some degree of consciousness after being in a vegetative state for 15 years. Doctors treated the 35-year-old, injured in a car accident, with an experimental therapy that...
-- 2017-09-25 12:00:00
The 'health development surcharge management policy' will be finalised once Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina returns home, Health Minister Mohammed Nasim has said. Nasim made the announcement at a progra...
-- 2017-09-23 12:00:00
Speakers at a discussion here on Saturday stressed on formulating an inclusive health policy to ensure health services for the country’s mass people. International Centre for Diar...
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