Hajj pilgrims can now get up to Tk 100 cashback or discount on bKash payment for health check-up at selected hospitals and diagnostic centres in Dhaka and Chattogram, said a press release...
Students and teachers of Daffodil International College, Dhaka participated in a science lecture on the health benefits of fish during an educational tour at National Museum of Science and Technology in the capital on Wednesday...
Cardiovascular disease is responsible for 40 per cent of deaths in Europe, the WHO said on Wednesday, urging Europeans to cut their salt intake...
The authorities of Shaheed Tajuddin Ahmad Medical College Hospital in Gazipur accused the relatives of the dead patients for pushing lift to dysfunction and death of the cardiac patient on Sunday...
MISMANAGEMENT and corruption in the public health system proved fatal again as a cardiac patient died while being stuck inside a malfunctioning lift at the Shaheed Tajuddin Ahmad Medical College Hospital in Gazipur on May 13. The attendants of the...
Public health activists and physicians at a conference on Friday urged the government to create a special fund for cancer prevention and treatment to help poor people to fight the disease...
The Directorate General of Health Services ordered all government hospitals across the country to remove illegal canteens and medicine shops from hospital compounds...
PUBLIC health policies are designed more for health services delivery, especially in the management of non-communicable diseases, than for health protection and prevention. Experts, therefore, at a workshop that research and advocacy organisation PROGGA...
Speakers at a workshop on Thursday emphasised the necessity of establishing a health promotion authority in Bangladesh, similar to those in Thailand and other countries, for sustainable health development and effectively combating...
Unilever Bangladesh and the Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition are collaborating on a pilot project, aimed at enhancing the environmental sustainability and public health of Bangladesh鈥檚 urban areas, titled 鈥楩or People and Planet: Resilient, Healthy and Sustainable Food and Environment Systems.鈥�...
One more death was reported from dengue in 24 hours till Thursday morning, raising the number of fatalities from the mosquito-borne disease in Bangladesh to 29 this year...
ADOLESCENCE is an age of enthusiasm, liveliness and other kinds of exuberance. The age in the ranges of 10鈥�19 years is adolescence. It is during this period that many mental, physical and behavioural changes take place in the life of an adolescent...
Public health experts, at a dialogue on Tuesday, asked for collective efforts of all stakeholders, including government, non-government agencies and citizens to combat dengue threat in the forthcoming rainy season...
THE health ministry asking hospitals and healthcare providers across the country to keep hand fans in stock for use during power outages shows the hollowness of the often-vaunted energy security. The instruction came in a national guideline issued by the ministry...
The health ministry on Sunday issued a national guideline for safeguarding the health and well-being of people during extreme heat, while asking healthcare providers across the country to keep...
The Department of Public Health of the American International University-Bangladesh and the Bangladesh Cricket Board jointly organised a workshop titled...
Bangladesh reported 17 more Covid cases in 24 hours till Thursday morning...
The Institute of Health Technology authorities in Rajshahi on Wednesday announced closure of the educational institution for an indefinite period after...
THE High Court, in a commendable move on April 29, asked the Directorate General of Health Services to take effective steps against the arbitrary price hike of essential drugs. The court gave the directive while hearing...
The world is on the cusp of a neurotechnology revolution that could transform human health and welfare, but urgent action is needed to protect brain data, experts told AFP on Friday.
Surgeons in the United States have transplanted a modified pig kidney into a living person for the second time, a hospital said Wednesday, celebrating an advance in animal-to-human organ transplants.
IN RECENT years, extreme weather events such as severe heatwaves or unusually cold winters have become a common feature of Bangladesh鈥檚 climate, yet the government appears unprepared to tackle the...
The World Health Organization voiced alarm on Thursday at the growing spread of H5N1 bird flu to new species, including humans, who face an 鈥榚xtraordinarily high鈥� mortality rate...
A new kind of mosquito net delivered across sub-Saharan Africa averted an estimated 13 million malaria cases and nearly 25,000 deaths over three years, the project鈥檚 backers said on Wednesday.聽...
Environment activists at a press conference on Monday urged the government to impose ban on asbestos import, marketing and its use in the country to protect...
Health and Family Welfare Minister Samanta Lal Sen on Monday urged all keep their houses clean and directed the authorities concerned to work in a coordinated way to prevent dengue....
Directors of all hospitals have been instructed to ensure health services during the Eid holidays, health minister Samanta Lal Sen said on Tuesday.
Over 3,500 people die from hepatitis viruses every day and the global toll is rising, the World Health Organization warned on Tuesday, calling for swift action to fight the second-largest infectious killer.聽...
