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Health service providers crucial in fight against HIV/AIDS: Study

Health service providers crucial in fight against HIV/AIDS: Study

-- 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...

Thomson Reuters  donates Tk 0.11m  to Gonoshasthaya  Dialysis Centre

Thomson Reuters donates Tk 0.11m to Gonoshasthaya Dialysis Centre

-- 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...

Prof Kanak Kanti new VC of BSMMU

Prof Kanak Kanti new VC of BSMMU

-- 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...

Spices might get teens to like vegetables

Spices might get teens to like vegetables

-- 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...

SA introduces ATM pharmacy for AIDS patients

SA introduces ATM pharmacy for AIDS patients

-- 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...

Kanak Kanti Barua new VC of BSMMU

Kanak Kanti Barua new VC of BSMMU

-- 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...

US moves to curb nicotine in cigarettes

US moves to curb nicotine in cigarettes

-- 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...

Scientists develop fast wound-healing method

Scientists develop fast wound-healing method

-- 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...

Fresenius Medical Care gets recognition in Australia

Fresenius Medical Care gets recognition in Australia

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...

DSCC mayor for community clinics at every ward

DSCC mayor for community clinics at every ward

-- 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...

Aussie researchers use diamond to improve biomedical implants

Aussie researchers use diamond to improve biomedical implants

-- 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...

President for reasonable cost of cancer treatment

President for reasonable cost of cancer treatment

-- 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...

Genes have a role in empathy: Study

Genes have a role in empathy: Study

-- 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...

Telenor Health inks MoU with Marie Stopes

Telenor Health inks MoU with Marie Stopes

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...

How infertility treatment has left sperm science behind

How infertility treatment has left sperm science behind

-- 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...

Exercise helps keep immune system young: Study

Exercise helps keep immune system young: Study

-- 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...

Fortis Cardiac establishes hospital in Ctg

Fortis Cardiac establishes hospital in Ctg

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...

AFC Health Fortis Cardiac offers round-the-clock services in Ctg

AFC Health Fortis Cardiac offers round-the-clock services in Ctg

-- 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...

Egypt struggles to end female genital mutilation

Egypt struggles to end female genital mutilation

-- 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...

Sanofi, Evotec in talks to create R&D platform

Sanofi, Evotec in talks to create R&D platform

-- 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...

BSMMU gets first-ever woman pro-VC

BSMMU gets first-ever woman pro-VC

-- 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...

Four Alzheimer's researchers win brain prize

Four Alzheimer's researchers win brain prize

-- 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...

StanChart officials visit eye camp in Kutubdia

StanChart officials visit eye camp in Kutubdia

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...

Personal health gadgets getting smarter

Personal health gadgets getting smarter

-- 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...

Scientists find gene for heart development

Scientists find gene for heart development

-- 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...

Govt to recruit 10,000 doctors before next polls

Govt to recruit 10,000 doctors before next polls

-- 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...

Foods that do wonders for face

Foods that do wonders for face

-- 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...

China develops first DNA nanorobots to fight cancer

China develops first DNA nanorobots to fight cancer

-- 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...

Kenya medics operate on wrong patient’s brain

Kenya medics operate on wrong patient’s brain

-- 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...

Diabetes is actually five separate diseases, research suggests

Diabetes is actually five separate diseases, research suggests

-- 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...