6.70 lakh children to get vitamin A capsule
Six lakh and 70 thousands children will be provided vitamin A plus capsules at 1,827 centres of the Dhaka South City Corporation on June 1...
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Bangladesh to play leadership role in fighting against blindness: FM
Expressing Bangladesh鈥檚 support for the UN Special Envoy on Vision and a Global Eye Health Summit in 2026, foreign minister Hasan Mahmud has reaffirmed that Bangladesh would continue to play its leadership role in the global fight against vision impairment and blindness...
US reports second human case of bird flu tied to dairy cow outbreak
A second case of bird flu has been found in a human, US health authorities announced on Wednesday, less then two months after the first one as an outbreak of the disease circulates widely among dairy cows.....
Sanofi, OpenAI, Formation Bio to work together for AI use in drug development
French pharmaceutical company Sanofi announced Tuesday a partnership with ChatGPT-founder OpenAI and US biotech firm Formation Bio to accelerate the use of artificial intelligence in developing drugs...
New device helps paraplegics regain partial use of hands
More than 40 people suffering from paralysis from the neck down regained partial control of their arms and hands thanks to a relatively simple to use device, a large study said Monday.
AstraZeneca to build $1.5b cancer drug facility in S鈥檖ore
British pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca said Monday that it planned to build a $1.5 billion plant in Singapore to manufacture next-generation drugs to treat cancer.....
Govt urged to ensure health coverage of all
Development activists on Sunday urged the government to sketch a roadmap to achieve the World Health Organisation鈥檚 universal health coverage by 2032 for attaining the United Nations鈥� sponsored Sustainable Development Goals...
Kumudini trust to hold int鈥檒 conference on cancer, palliative care
An international conference on cancer and palliative care is scheduled to be held at Kumudini Complex in Mirzapur of Tangail on May 22, the authorities said at a press conference organised at Kumudini鈥檚 Dhaka office on Sunday...
Teacher shortage hits medical education hard in Bangladesh
Medical education in public medical colleges, especially those established in recent years, has been badly affected by shortages of teachers, hospital facilities, and...
Ranks influence military medical care: study
Human relationships are inherently shaped by power dynamics, yet quantifying their impact has remained a scientific challenge.
Bangladesh reports one more dengue death in 24hrs
At least one more person died of dengue at Dhaka Medical College Hospital in the past 24 hours till Friday morning, taking the official death toll to 33 across the country since January this year...
Cardiovascular diseases kill 10,000 Europeans a day: WHO
Cardiovascular disease is responsible for 40 per cent of deaths in Europe, the WHO said on Wednesday, urging Europeans to cut their salt intake...
Two new varieties of Wilson鈥檚 disease identified
The Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University published the results of research on genetic changes in Wilson鈥檚 patients and its neurological symptoms at a programme at Shaheed Dr Milton Hall of the university on Tuesday...
First patient to get gene-edited pig kidney transplant dies
The first living patient to receive a genetically modified pig kidney transplant has died two months after the procedure, the US hospital that carried it out said.
Pandemic agreement talks reaching end with deal elusive
Countries trying to strike a landmark global agreement on handling future pandemics began discussing how to keep the process alive as they ran out of time to seal a deal on Friday....