-- 2018-03-20 13:01:10
Social and public health services providers play a crucial role in helping patients at risk of HIV access life-saving services, suggests a study released by University of Michigan (UM) on Sunday. Pro...
-- 2018-03-20 00:18:50
International news agency Thomson Reuters in Dhaka has donated Tk 0.11 million to Gonoshasthaya Dialysis Centre, a non-profit service institution of Gonoshasthaya Kendra, says a press release. Seraju...
-- 2018-03-19 17:52:39
Noted neurosurgeon Professor Kanak Kanti Barua has been appointed as the new vice-chancellor (VC) of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University (BSMMU). President M Abdul Hamid cleared his appointme...
-- 2018-03-18 14:38:25
A dash of cumin or dill might help convince high school students to load up their plate with vegetables during lunchtime in the cafeteria, a small study suggests. Researchers got about 100 high schoo...
-- 2018-03-17 13:16:07
South Africa has launched an ATM-like vending machine to dispense medicines to patients with chronic illnesses such as AIDS in a move aimed at reducing waiting times and congestion in public healthcar...
-- 2018-03-16 15:58:17
Neurosurgeon Prof Kanak Kanti Barua is going be next vice-chancellor of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University (BSMUU). Barua, the chairman of the Neurosurgery Department and dean of the Surgery...
-- 2018-03-16 13:38:03
The US Food and Drug Administration took a fresh step on Thursday towards setting a maximum nicotine level for tobacco products in a bid to lower tobacco-related deaths across the country, saying it w...
-- 2018-03-15 13:12:40
Chinese and American scientists identified a new immune target that may speed up the healing of skin wounds. The study, published on Wednesday in the journal Science Translational Medicine, has found...
FE Online Desk 2018-03-15 12:39:24
Australia's leading independent authority on healthcare recognised the high standard of care that Fresenius Medical Care provides in the country. The Australian Council on Healthcare Standards (ACHS...
-- 2018-03-14 21:33:09
Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) Mayor Mohammad Sayeed Khokon on Wednesday underscored the need for setting up community clinics in each ward under the city corporation areas to ensure health servi...
-- 2018-03-14 13:34:05
Australian researchers on Wednesday said they are harnessing diamonds for use in biomedical implants, through a novel way that could improve the way the human body accepts the medical devices. "Curre...
-- 2018-03-13 20:37:57
President Abdul Hamid on Tuesday urged the authorities concerned to take initiatives so that treatment cost of cancer diseases remain within the common people's reach. President Abdul Hamid made the...
-- 2018-03-13 12:45:47
Empathy helps us to make close connections with people, and influences how we behave in a range of situations, from the workplace to a party. Now scientists say empathy is not just something we devel...
FE Online Desk 2018-03-12 15:50:31
Telenor Health has recently signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Marie Stopes Bangladesh. Representatives from both the organisations attended the MoU signing ceremony on behalf of their respect...
-- 2018-03-12 12:56:36
They can make test-tube babies, grow human eggs in a lab and reproduce mice from frozen testicle tissue, but when it comes to knowing how a man’s sperm can swim to, find and fertilise an egg, sc...
-- 2018-03-11 13:29:21
A newly published study finds that exercising in older age can help keep one's immune system active and young. Britain researchers followed 125 cyclists over the age of 55 and found that they had imm...
FE Online Desk 2018-03-10 13:18:24
People from the region of Chittagong need not to depend on foreign or Dhaka hospitals for high standard cardiac healthcare services anymore. AFC Health Fortis Cardiac Institute established a 63 bed s...
-- 2018-03-09 17:44:24
AFC Health Fortis Cardiac Institute has established a 63-bed super-specialised hospital in Chittagong city in association with India's Fortis Escorts Heart Institute and Research Center providing worl...
-- 2018-03-09 13:31:07
In a tiny village in Egypt’s southern province of Assiut, 16-year-old Amany Shamekh, who wants to be an artist one day, recalls how she was illegally circumcised with a razor blade. “The...
-- 2018-03-08 14:13:57
French multinational pharmaceutical company Sanofi and drug discovery and development company from Germany Evotec said they had started exclusive talks over accelerating research into the treatment of...
-- 2018-03-07 19:06:39
Renowned paediatrician Prof Dr Shahana Akther Rahman has been made the first-ever woman pro-vice chancellor of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University (BSMMU). Dr Shahana, chairman of Paediatrics...
-- 2018-03-07 12:51:25
Four dementia scientists have shared this year's 1 million Euro brain prize for pivotal work that has changed our understanding of Alzheimer's disease. Profs John Hardy, Bart De Strooper, Michael Goe...
FE Online Desk 2018-03-06 14:05:32
Standard Chartered Bank and Friendship are cooperating to perform 400 cataract surgeries for disadvantaged people in remote coastal regions of Bangladesh,for which reason 5 camps were set up in the ar...
-- 2018-03-06 11:18:52
With sensors that can collect data on body movements, heart rate, blood pressure and other metrics, the list of health trackers that go beyond activity trackers like Fitbits gets longer each year. "T...
-- 2018-03-05 13:00:26
Chinese scientists identified a gene critical for the development of the network of nerves wrapped around the heart and its surrounding vasculature, according to a recently published study. The disco...
-- 2018-03-04 18:39:49
The government is going to recruit 10,000 doctors before next parliamentary elections scheduled to be held in December this year. Health Minister Mohammed Nasim came up with the statement while addre...
-- 2018-03-04 14:40:12
Every skin has a story to tell. The outside coat reflects the inside reality. While consuming the right foods and avoiding the wrong ones can make or break a skin, using the right foods on the surface...
-- 2018-03-04 14:10:34
Chinese scientists said they have successfully created and tested the world's first autonomous DNA nanorobots to combat cancer tumors, paving the way for revolutionary cancer therapy. Scientists from...
-- 2018-03-03 14:08:41
Staff from nurses to the CEO have been suspended at a Nairobi hospital after the wrong patient underwent brain surgery. One patient needed surgery for a blood clot on the brain, the other only non-in...
-- 2018-03-02 14:18:13
Scientists say diabetes is five separate diseases, and treatment could be tailored to each form. Diabetes - or uncontrolled blood sugar levels - is normally split into type 1 and type 2. But researc...
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