DHAKA: WHO Regional Director for South-East Asia Dr Poonam Khetrapal Singh in a media statement urged the nations to address the worsening urban air quality as a priority. “Improving air quality must be a top health and development priority in countries of WHO South-East Asia Region

DHAKA: One in four pregnancies ends in an abortion each year, global estimates from the World Health Organization and Guttmacher Institute suggest. The report in the Lancet said 56m induced abortions take place annually - higher than previously thought. Researchers acknowledge rates

DHAKA: The International Nurses Day-2016 is being observed in the country on Thursday (May 12) with the view to raise awareness about the role of nurses in the healthcare and in society. Every year the Day is observed around the world on May 12, the birth anniversary of Florence

DHAKA: The mosquito-borne Zika virus may be even more dangerous than previously thought.   Quoting scientists in Brazil, BBC reports that Zika could be behind more damaging neurological conditions, affecting the babies of up to a fifth of infected pregnant women.   Rates of

DHAKA: A genetic therapy has improved the vision of patients who would otherwise have gone blind. A clinical study by British scientists has shown that the improvement is long-lasting and so the therapy is suitable to be offered as a treatment, reports the BBC. The researchers will

DHAKA: Junior doctors will walk out of both routine and emergency care from 08:00 to 17:00 BST in the NHS’s history later. It is the first time services such as A&E, maternity and intensive care have been hit in the long-running dispute, reports BBC. NHS bosses believe plans are

DHAKA: More than two billion people live in parts of the world where the Zika virus can spread, detailed maps published in the journal eLife show. The Zika virus, which is spread by Aedes aegypti mosquitoes, triggered a global health emergency this year. Last week the US Centers for

DHAKA: More than 150 countries have begun switching to a different polio vaccine - an important milestone towards polio eradication. Health campaigners say, reports the BBC. The new vaccine will target the two remaining strains of the virus under a switchover 18 months in the

DHAKA: Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Wednesday (April 13) said incumbent government is taking various initiatives to make nursing an attractive career choice. She made the comment when President of the Kochi University in Kochi City Japan Dr. Hiroko Minami paid a courtesy call to her

DHAKA: The Zika virus is “scarier” than first thought and its impact on the US could be greater than predicted. Quoting US public health officials, the BBC reports the matter. Dr Anne Schuchat of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said a wider range of birth

DHAKA: Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Wednesday (April 6) laid the foundation stone of ‘Sheikh Hasina National Institute of Burn and Plastic Surgery’ building in city. This was part of a process of transforming the burn institute of Dhaka Medical College and Hospital (DMCH) into

DHAKA: The state minister for health and family welfare Zahid Malique on Tuesday (March 22) said they have found one zika virus affected person in Chittagong. The minister made the disclosure while addressing a press conference at the ministry at noon. He further said the physicians

DHAKA: More than 348 million people worldwide have diabetes and this number is likely to be more than doubled by 2030 without intervention, according to World Health Organization (WHO). Near about 8 million Bangladeshi suffer from diabetes where India is soon destined to become the

DHAKA: Some people with high levels of supposedly "good" cholesterol are at much greater risk of heart disease, a study suggests. A bloodstream tussle takes place between "bad" cholesterol dumping fatty material in the arteries and good cholesterol taking it away. But a Cambridge

DHAKA: Three members of a family, who are suffering from massive bark-like warts on their hands and feet, a disease known as epidermodysplasia verruciformis, were admitted to Dhaka Medical College and Hospital (DMCH) on Wednesday (March 9). The patients were identified as Based Ali,

KHULNA: After getting assurance from local lawmaker and administration, doctors postponed their strike in Khulna for four days. Hundreds of doctors, the lifeline of the medical services at government, private hospitals and clinics in Khulna, went on strike on March 3 protesting assault

DHAKA: Around two crore people in Bangladesh are kidney patients. Among them, only ten percent people can take medical treatment due to its higher expenditure. Speakers made this disclosure at a roundtable discussion held at National Press Club in city on Saturday (March 5). Kidney

DHAKA: The effects of eating peanut products as a baby to avoid the risk of allergy have been backed up by new research.In 2015, a study claimed early exposure to peanut products could cut the risk of allergy by 80%.Now researchers say "long-lasting" allergy protection can be sustained -

DHAKA: New research gives the first evidence that Zika virus might cause a severe neurological disorder called Guillain-Barré syndrome.The study was carried out using blood samples from 42 patients who became ill in a previous outbreak.The Lancet authors say they developed the

DHAKA: Children Health Desks will be setup in every Thana with cooperation of the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) to ensure the security of children across the country.The pilot study of the project is now going on.UNICEF's Chief of Child Protection Rose-Anne Papavero made the