-- 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...
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...
-- 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...
-- 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. "...
-- 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...
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...
-- 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...
-- 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...
-- 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...
-- 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...
-- 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...
-- 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...
-- 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...
-- 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...
-- 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...
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...
-- 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...
-- 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...
-- 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...
-- 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...
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...
-- 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...
-- 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...
-- 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...
-- 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...
-- 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...
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...
-- 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...
-- 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...
-- 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...
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