Vitiligo in children may signal hidden risks of hearing loss
18 October 2025, 20:08 PM
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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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Importance of hand washing
We are more or less aware about the importance of washing hands. The healthcare professionals and persons responsible for patient care certainly needs to be concerned about hand hygiene and should be able to perform it correctly at the right time.
5 March 2016, 18:00 PM
Antimicrobial resistance: What's the big deal?
A recent study from China reported an alarming finding: a gene that confers resistance to certain antibiotics (used against dangerous bacteria) is found in a growing number of bacteria from meat samples in China and from some hospital patients.
5 March 2016, 18:00 PM
Scientists 'find cancer's Achilles heel'
Researchers at University College, London have developed a way of finding unique markings within a tumour - its "Achilles heel" - allowing the body to target the disease.
5 March 2016, 09:43 AM
Evidence mounts linking Zika virus to birth defects
Evidence mounted linking Zika to the birth defect microcephaly, and the United Nations health agency set a review of travel advice related to the outbreak of the virus while US officials planned strategy to control mosquitoes that spread it.
5 March 2016, 05:42 AM
Career Crafting Session organised by SevenSages
“There is only one thing common among us all, that is, we are all unique. Each one of us is promised a destiny, a unique place to belong and to excel. Jobs we do are mere spaces of exploration helping us to uncover this destiny. And being guided by this destiny is what makes our journey magical.”
3 March 2016, 18:00 PM
BSHRM to organise BSHRM-MetLife International Human Resources Conference
Bangladesh Society for Human Resource Management (BSHRM) organised a press conference last Saturday, February 13 to announce the date of their biggest event of the year.
3 March 2016, 18:00 PM
Moments of joy 'can damage heart'
The emotional stress that causes chest pains and breathlessness can occur in moments of joy as well as anger, grief and fear, a Swiss study suggests.
3 March 2016, 07:26 AM
Meningitis B petition rejected
Offering the meningitis B vaccine to all children is "not cost effective" and would be a waste of NHS money, the government says.
2 March 2016, 11:29 AM
Factbox: Why Zika virus is causing alarm
Global health officials are racing to better understand the Zika virus behind a major outbreak that began in Brazil last year and has since spread to many countries in the Americas.
2 March 2016, 05:12 AM
Zika 'might cause' neurological disorder: study
New research gives the first evidence that Zika virus might cause a severe neurological disorder called Guillain-Barré syndrome.
1 March 2016, 04:54 AM
First sexually transmitted Zika case detected in France
France has detected its first sexually transmitted case of Zika in a woman whose partner had traveled to Brazil, the epicentre of an outbreak of the virus, a senior health official says.
28 February 2016, 05:06 AM
Two-stage injections cause children less pain
Many people are afraid of needles, but children are especially fearful. As a result, dentists are continually looking for ways to make
27 February 2016, 18:00 PM
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Labaid Hospital organised a patient awareness programme on osteoporosis in Dhaka by leveraging the slogan — Life is movement,
27 February 2016, 18:00 PM
Mindfulness for good health
Mindfulness improves mental, psychological and physical health — lowers rates of fatigue and burn out, lowers blood pressure,
27 February 2016, 18:00 PM
Excessive vitamin A can cause severe damage to the body
Vitamins are a group of organic compounds that are essential for normal growth and nutrition. They are required in small quantities in
27 February 2016, 18:00 PM
Modern HIV prevention: What’s next for women?
Recently, some of the world’s leading scientists and researchers gathered in Boston at the Conference on Retroviruses and
27 February 2016, 18:00 PM
US surgeons perform country’s first uterus transplant
Surgeons in Cleveland say they have performed the America’s first uterus transplant, a new frontier that aims to give women who lack wombs a chance at pregnancy.
27 February 2016, 07:17 AM
Rio Olympics to charge teams for mosquito screens to prevent Zika
The organising committee for the August Olympics in Rio de Janeiro said it will charge national delegations to have mosquito screens on athletes' rooms.
27 February 2016, 04:32 AM
Zika outbreak will worsen before it gets better: WHO
The head of the World Health Organization warns that the Zika outbreak would likely worsen before nations besieged by the mosquito-borne virus linked to thousands of birth defects in Brazil see relief.
25 February 2016, 06:08 AM
Study finds anti-AIDS vaginal ring partially protects women
Women who inserted a vaginal ring coated with an anti-AIDS drug once a month were partially protected against HIV infection, researchers said Monday as they released long-awaited results from two large studies in Africa.
23 February 2016, 06:11 AM