Johnson & Johnson created a plan last year to limit the financial bleeding from billions of dollars in jury awards to plaintiffs who alleged the company’s Baby Powder and other talc products caused deadly cancers. The healthcare and consumer-goods giant assigned more than 30 staffers to “Project Plato.” In a memo on the project in July, a company lawyer warned the team: Tell no one, not even your spouse.

The BA.2 subvariant of the Omicron coronavirus variant, which has quickly taken over in Denmark, is more transmissible than the more common BA.1 and more able to infect vaccinated people, a Danish study has found.

Testing in humans of an HIV vaccine that uses messenger RNA technology has begun, the biotech firm Moderna and the International Aids Vaccine Initiative said on Thursday (Jan 27).

The pandemic has had a terrible impact on children, especially their education, among those living in the developing world. But just as it has accelerated trends that already existed such as digitisation, it has exposed the worrying problem of childhood obesity.

Superbug infections killed 1.2 million people in 2019, according to a study published Thursday (January 20), which authors described as the most comprehensive assessment of the impact of antimicrobial resistance to date.

New Zealand plans to ban young people from ever buying cigarettes in their lifetime in one of the world's toughest crackdowns on the tobacco industry, arguing that other efforts to extinguish smoking were taking too long.

Bangladesh is in the midst of mass poisoning. According to the Institute of Health Metrics Evaluation (IHME), currently, around 60 percent of all children in Bangladesh have blood lead poisoning. Their average blood lead label is more than 5 micrograms per decilitre. According to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), lead is a toxin even at very low concentrations and there is no “safe” level of lead exposure, particularly for children. Blood lead levels above 5 micrograms per decilitre are considered alarming, and a cause of urgent action. More than 10 million children in Bangladesh are severely poisoned by lead.

Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen on Friday said Sylhet will become one of the hubs of modern medical services.

Over 28 million more years of life were lost than expected in the year 2020 in 31 upper-middle and high-income countries, according to a study done to understand the impact of Covid-19.

Happiness has long been recognised as a critical part of health and well-being. It is also important to consider how one personally defines

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has expressed hope that Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University (BSMMU) is playing a pioneering role in providing health services to people and hoped it would also lead in the country's medical research arena.

"Enter and cry," one sign tells visitors. "I too have anxiety," glows another notice in pink. There are phones in one corner with the names of people you can call when you are feeling down, including a psychologist.

At least 183 patients were hospitalised with dengue fever in the 24 hours preceding 8:00 am today of whom 162 are from outside Dhaka, according to the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).

At least 84.6 percent university students faced mental health problems during the pandemic, as per a recent study.

The pandemic has shed light on the need for having national health information systems, said speakers at the United Nations World Data Forum 2021 conference yesterday.

The sixth session of the Bangladesh National Youth Conference on Family Planning (BNYCFP) ended on ecently in Dhaka in hybrid format with two days of sessions.

Abdul Hakim suddenly felt severe chest pain late at night sometime in August last year.

Opposition MPs today criticised Health Minister Zahid Maleque in parliament over the sorry state, widespread corruption and mismanagement of the health sector.

Shakti Foundation distributed around 5 lakh masks-- for free -- through its 445 centres across the country yesterday.

Eminent Jurist and former President of the Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) Advocate Khandker Mahbbub Hossain, who was infected with Covid-19 is now on life support at Evercare Hospital in Dhaka after his condition deteriorated.