Seniors in Singapore turn to horse therapy for healing
Singapore on Tuesday started an initiative to expand its senior care programme using horse therapy as the wealthy city-state grapples with the challenges of a rapidly ageing population.
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WHO launches plan for free child cancer medicines
The World Health Organization on Tuesday launched a new platform providing cost-free cancer medicines for thousands of children living in low- and middle-income countries, in a bid to improve lagging survival rates.
Society of Critical Care Medicine holds international conference
The 6th international conference of the Bangladesh Society of Critical Care Medicine was held at the Shaheed Abu Sayeed Convention Hall of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University in Dhaka on Sunday...
Nurture Nest for child development launched
Nurture Nest, a child development centre run under the supervision of Bangladesh Psychiatric Care Limited, was launched at a programme at Dhanmondi in Dhaka on Wednesday...
Inner Wheel Club donates equipment to Azimpur hospital
Inner Wheel Club of Dhaka Nightingale has provided beds and medical equipment to Azimpur Maternity Hospital...
Pregnant woman dies for 鈥榳rong treatment鈥� in city
A pregnant woman died while undergoing treatment at the Women and Children Hospital in the capital鈥檚 Uttara on Tuesday allegedly for wrong treatment.
UNSAFE FOOD CONSUMPTION: 5pc people suffer from intestinal disorders daily: secretary
Five per cent of people suffers from sort of intestinal disorders daily in Bangladesh due to unsafe food consumption, said food secretary Md Masudul Hasan on Sunday...
12pc deaths in Bangladesh from cancer: study
Cancer is responsible for 11.9 per cent of total annual deaths in the country, a study by Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University revealed on Saturday.
Covid more likely to have leaked from lab: CIA
The Central Intelligence Agency has shifted its official stance on the origin of Covid-19, saying Saturday that the virus was 鈥榤ore likely鈥� leaked from a Chinese lab than transmitted by animals....
US announces 15 more drugs for price talks
The aim is to reduce or eliminate the amount paid by beneficiaries of Medicare, a health coverage program available to Americans over the age of 65...
BSMMU hosts seminar on HMPV
A special seminar on the globally concerning HMPV was held at the Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University in Dhaka on Thursday...
Eight killed in Marburg disease 鈥榦utbreak鈥� in remote part of Tanzania: WHO
The World Health Organisation said Wednesday an outbreak of suspected Marburg disease has killed eight people in a remote part of northern Tanzania...
Experts decide obesity doesn鈥檛 always mean disease
The recommendations hoped to move past the blame and discrimination that often revolve around obesity, which is estimated to affect more than a billion people worldwide...
US reports first human death from bird flu
The patient, aged over 65, had been hospitalised in the southern state since at least mid-December, when the US Centres for Disease Control and Prevention announced it as the country鈥檚 first serious case of human infection from the H5N1 virus...
Vietnam jails more officials over Covid flight bribes
The case is part of a major anti-graft drive that has led to the resignation of a president and two deputy prime ministers in a country where political changes are usually carefully orchestrated...