Vitiligo in children may signal hidden risks of hearing loss
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Physiotherapy / Post Chikungunya joints and muscle pain management
18 October 2025, 20:08 PM
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Food upcycling: The missing link in our fight against food insecurity
18 October 2025, 20:07 PM
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New global guidelines target postpartum bleeding to save mothers’ lives
18 October 2025, 20:07 PM
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World Anaesthesia Day 2025 / Regional anaesthesia: A safer future for postoperative pain control
18 October 2025, 20:06 PM
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Entry tests for medical, dental colleges to be held on same day
13 October 2025, 13:25 PM
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Global tobacco use declined, but the epidemic persisted
11 October 2025, 18:06 PM
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The five sleep profiles that shape our mental health
11 October 2025, 18:01 PM
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Statin use in pregnancy: No increased risk of birth defects
11 October 2025, 18:00 PM
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World mental health day 2025: Protecting minds in humanitarian crises
11 October 2025, 18:00 PM
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Free medical camp organised in Narsingdi
Dr Nuruzzaman Khokon Memorial Trust organised a free medical camp in Narsingdi, Bangladesh recently at the premises of Satirpara K K
1 April 2017, 18:00 PM
Global effort to halve medication-related errors
The World Health Organisation (WHO) recently launched a global initiative to reduce severe, avoidable medication-associated harm in
1 April 2017, 18:00 PM
Restoring functional arm movements to man with complete paralysis
A system that decodes brain signals and transmits them to sensors in the arm has allowed a man paralysed from the shoulders down to
1 April 2017, 18:00 PM
Health sector reformation and challenges of implementation
The cabinet division of the Government of Bangladesh has bifurcated the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare into two separate
1 April 2017, 18:00 PM
Depression: Let’s talk
It is the World Health Day on April 7; the day marks the anniversary of the founding of the World Health Organisation (WHO). This
1 April 2017, 18:00 PM
Contraceptive usage: Bangladesh 8th, China top in Asia
China, South Korea and Thailand are few Asian countries where a high number of people are using contraceptives. In China, there is 83 percent usage of contraceptives while in both South Korea and Thailand the figure is 78 percent.
1 April 2017, 05:23 AM
Youth Voice of Bangladesh holds corporate leadership workshop
Youth Voice of Bangladesh (YVB) conducted its second corporate leadership workshop titled Corpo Route Key 2 on March 25.
30 March 2017, 18:00 PM
GP Accelerator Batch 3 startups begin their journey
Grameenphone Accelerator (GPA) has unveiled the newest batch of startups beginning their four-month long acceleration journey on
30 March 2017, 18:00 PM
Mobile tower radiation: Govt asked to obtain expert report on health risk
The High Court directs the health ministry to obtain a report from the experts of three international organisations about public health risk from radiation emitted from mobile phone towers set up in different areas across the country.
28 March 2017, 08:53 AM
Global rise of multidrug resistant TB threatens to derail progress
The rise of multidrug-resistant (MDR) and extensively drug-resistant (XDR) tuberculosis (TB) threatens to derail decades of progress in controlling the disease, according to a new report in The Lancet Respiratory Medicine published on World TB day on 24th March.
25 March 2017, 18:00 PM
Are vegetable oils healthy?
In small amounts, vegetable oils are healthy, as they contain fats that are essential in our diets. But our consumption of vegetable oil has increased considerably, and the health effects of high intakes are a source of scientific debate.
25 March 2017, 18:00 PM
Graphical health warnings on cigarette packs found effective
A recently completed sample-based study done in Bangladesh claims that the health warning labels describing the harmful effects of tobacco products using text and/or pictures are found to be effective.
25 March 2017, 18:00 PM
Physiotherapy in the management of stroke
Mr Idrish Ali, A 55 year old man came to a physiotherapist to consult about his personal complication.
25 March 2017, 18:00 PM
Marketing whiz kids fight it out at Teer BRANDRill ‘17
After an extremely close competition among the 10 qualifying teams, Second String from Bangladesh Universities of Professionals became winners of the first ever nationwide branding competition in the country.
23 March 2017, 18:00 PM
2.24 lakh TB patients detected in 2016
At least 2.24 lakh tuberculosis (TB) patients were detected in 2016, which is four percent higher than that of the previous year, according to the National Tuberculosis Control Programme (NTP).
23 March 2017, 14:03 PM
1st Japan birth achieved via egg from unnamed donor
A woman unable to become pregnant with her own eggs due to illness has given birth to a baby conceived using a donated egg from an anonymous third party, a Kobe-based nonprofit organization that mediated between them announces.
23 March 2017, 04:53 AM
A mobile tower radiation harmful: Government report
Radiation emitted by a tower of a mobile operator in Bangladesh is harmful for public health, the government says in a report.
22 March 2017, 08:25 AM
Yaba: A killer of young generation
Yaba tablets which are a combination of methamphetamine and caffeine have become very popular in Bangladesh over the past decade. The numbers regarding the yaba users reported is far less than the actual users.
18 March 2017, 18:00 PM
Ahoy Bangladesh Ltd. launched services in Dhaka
Ahoy Bangladesh opens its services to residents of Bangladesh for making medical treatment in India easy and trouble free in association with Ahoy India, a pioneer in medical value travel company in India.
18 March 2017, 18:00 PM
The weaponisation of health care
Marking six years since the start of the Syrian conflict (15 March), a study in The Lancet provides new estimates for the number of
18 March 2017, 18:00 PM