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Diabetes treatment guideline app launched

Diabetes treatment guideline app launched

FE Online Desk 2019-11-13 13:23:59

Country’s first government recognised diabetes treatment guideline was launched on Tuesday.  “Diabetes Care BADAS Guideline 2019” was prepared jointly by Diabetic Association o...

128 new dengue patients hospitalised in 24 hrs

128 new dengue patients hospitalised in 24 hrs

-- 2019-11-11 16:49:59

A total of 128 dengue patients were admitted to different hospitals across the country in the last 24 hours till 8am on Monday. Fifty six of them were hospitalised in Dhaka, the Directorate General o...

Dengue:  Mosquitos not only the cause

Dengue: Mosquitos not only the cause

-- 2019-11-10 15:46:12

Health authorities in Spain have confirmed the first ever case of dengue virus to be transmitted through sexual contact which until recently was thought to be transmitted only by mosquitos, reports bd...

Air pollution in South Asia damaging health, neuro of 620m children

Air pollution in South Asia damaging health, neuro of 620m children

FE Online Report 2019-11-07 19:42:28

Over 600 million children in South Asia suffer from the dire consequences of polluted and toxic air which is putting them at heath and neurological risk. UNICEF Executive Director Henrietta Fore disc...

'Three-quarters of Bangladeshi firms don’t offer childcare'

'Three-quarters of Bangladeshi firms don’t offer childcare'

-- 2019-11-06 18:53:53

International Finance Corporation (IFC), a member of the World Bank Group, on Wednesday said 77 percent of companies surveyed in Bangladesh do not yet offer childcare options to their employees &ndash...

BD origin US scientist’s team finds quick way to detect TB

BD origin US scientist’s team finds quick way to detect TB

-- 2019-10-31 19:00:35

A research team, led by Bangladeshi origin US scientist Dr Rushdy Ahmad, has figured out a new easy and quick way to detect tuberculosis (TB). “The fast, ultrasensitive, multiplexed blood-based...

Bangladeshi adolescents at 'alarming' risk of heart diseases

Bangladeshi adolescents at 'alarming' risk of heart diseases

-- 2019-10-24 18:25:27

A new study has found three or more risk factors of cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) in one in every five Bangladeshi adolescents. Of them, nine in 10 reported low fruit and vegetable intake and six in...

Scientists find fat in overweight people's lungs

Scientists find fat in overweight people's lungs

-- 2019-10-18 19:47:10

Fatty tissue has been found in the lungs of overweight and obese people for the first time. Australian researchers analysed lung samples from 52 people and found the amount of fat increased in line w...

Chinese study unlocks clues to fight African swine fever

Chinese study unlocks clues to fight African swine fever

Xinhua 2019-10-18 16:54:27

Chinese scientists have modeled the three-dimensional structure of African swine fever virus, laying a solid foundation for developing effective and safe vaccines against the disease. The research, j...

One in three children under 5 malnourished: UNICEF report

One in three children under 5 malnourished: UNICEF report

-- 2019-10-16 17:41:12

At least one in three children under five across the globe are malnourished and not developing properly, the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) revealed on Tuesday. "An alarmingly high number of...

'Breast cancer takes 6,844 lives in Bangladesh every year'

'Breast cancer takes 6,844 lives in Bangladesh every year'

-- 2019-10-10 17:40:15

Some 12,764 women are detected with breast cancer in Bangladesh every year and 6,844 of them die of the disease, according to a report of International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC). To reduce...

World Mental Health Day Thursday

World Mental Health Day Thursday

-- 2019-10-09 17:30:35

The World Mental Health Day will be observed tomorrow (Thursday) in the country like elsewhere across the world. The day is observed every year on October 10 across the world with various programmes...

Vaping causes lung cancer in mice: study

Vaping causes lung cancer in mice: study

Xinhua 2019-10-09 16:54:36

Exposure to e-cigarette smoke causes mice to develop lung cancer, according to a study published Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Researchers from New York University (N...

Three scientists win Nobel in medicine

Three scientists win Nobel in medicine

Reuters 2019-10-07 16:14:02

Two scientists from the United States and one from Britain won the 2019 Nobel Medicine Prize on Monday for finding how cells adapt to fluctuating oxygen levels, paving the way for new strategies to fi...

Ban on e-cigarette likely

Ban on e-cigarette likely

-- 2019-10-03 17:17:43

Bangladesh is considering imposing a ban on the production, import and sale of electronic cigarettes and all vaping tobaccos to prevent health consequences. Secretary for health education to the Mini...

LafargeHolcim arranges awareness sessions on heart diseases

LafargeHolcim arranges awareness sessions on heart diseases

FE Online Desk 2019-09-28 13:29:15

On the eve of the World Heart Day (29 September) LafargeHolcim Bangladesh Limited organized awareness sessions on heart diseases for the employees. Specialized doctors shared their experiences and ad...

Breast cancer becomes major concern for Fijian women

Breast cancer becomes major concern for Fijian women

-- 2019-09-27 15:21:30

Fijian Health Minister Ifereimi Waqainabete has said breast cancer cases have overtaken cervical cancer statistics in Fiji as more women delay medical treatment. Speaking at the Internal Medicine Org...

Tk 5.8m Japanese grant to construct healthcare centre for Rohingyas

Tk 5.8m Japanese grant to construct healthcare centre for Rohingyas

FE Online Report 2019-09-25 18:34:46

The Japanese government has granted Tk 5.8 million to construct a healthcare centre at Rohingya refugee camps in Cox’s Bazar.  Bangladesh Red Crescent Society (BDRCS) will provide the fund...

China planning controls on e-cigarettes amid health concern

China planning controls on e-cigarettes amid health concern

-- 2019-09-24 14:29:59

China plans to join governments that are imposing controls on tobacco liquid and additives for e-cigarettes amid rising concern about deaths and illnesses blamed on vaping, a state news agency said Tu...

PM seeks effective collaboration to achieve Universal Health Coverage

PM seeks effective collaboration to achieve Universal Health Coverage

-- 2019-09-24 11:34:49

Prime minister Sheikh Hasina has said collaboration among countries at regional and global levels is fundamental to accelerate progress in the Universal Health Coverage. “Resource mobilisation...

'Modern technology can detect cancer early'

'Modern technology can detect cancer early'

-- 2019-09-23 16:57:10

Epigenetic sequencing nanotechnology can detect all types of cancers early through analyzing DNA and RNA for early recovering the patients sufferings from cancers. Cancer specialists made the comment...

Chinese scientists suggest new control method for dengue virus

Chinese scientists suggest new control method for dengue virus

Xinhua 2019-09-21 17:05:44

Having an iron-rich diet may be an effective way to control dengue virus as mosquitoes are more likely to acquire the virus when they feed on iron-deficient blood, according to recent Chinese research...

More than one in five babies born in conflicted areas

More than one in five babies born in conflicted areas

-- 2019-09-20 19:40:40

More than one in five babies, totalling to over 29 million, were born in conflict-affected areas last year, said UNICEF on Friday.  “Every parent should be able to cherish their baby&rsquo...

Pandemics could kill millions in 36 hours, experts warn

Pandemics could kill millions in 36 hours, experts warn

-- 2019-09-18 17:01:34

The world is facing a mounting threat of disease pandemics that could kill millions and wreak havoc on the global economy, a international expert panel has warned, and governments should work to prepa...

New York bans flavoured e-cigarettes after illnesses, deaths

New York bans flavoured e-cigarettes after illnesses, deaths

-- 2019-09-16 14:40:27

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo on Sunday announced a ban on all flavoured e-cigarettes besides tobacco and menthol in response to a recent nationwide spate of sometimes deadly lung illnesses that US h...

One dies every 40 seconds in suicide: WHO

One dies every 40 seconds in suicide: WHO

-- 2019-09-10 13:52:54

  GENEVA, Sept 10:  Nearly 800,000 people commit suicide each year -- more than those killed by war and homicide or breast cancer, the World Health Organization said Monday, urging action t...

No Malaria after 2050: Global experts

No Malaria after 2050: Global experts

-- 2019-09-10 10:49:09

Malaria can be eradicated within a generation, global health experts have said, reports Reuters. In a major report on Sunday, 41 specialists said a future free of malaria - one of the world's oldest...

'Malaria can be eradicated by 2050'

'Malaria can be eradicated by 2050'

-- 2019-09-09 17:19:27

Malaria can be eradicated within a generation, global health experts have said. In a major report on Sunday, 41 specialists said a future free of malaria - one of the world’s oldest and deadlie...

NICVD conducts second minimally invasive cardiac surgery

NICVD conducts second minimally invasive cardiac surgery

BSS 2019-09-06 19:46:20

For the 2nd time in public hospitals, the National Institute of Cardiovascular Diseases (NICVD) conducted a minimally invasive cardiac surgery (MICS) of a patient’s partially blocked blood vesse...

Vegans and vegetarian diets linked to higher stroke risk: Study

Vegans and vegetarian diets linked to higher stroke risk: Study

BBC 2019-09-05 15:15:56

Vegan and vegetarian diets lower the risk of heart disease but raise the risk of stroke, a major study suggests. The research, published in the British Medical Journal, looked at 48,000 people for up...