CONSUMPTION of sugar-sweetened beverages, such as regular soda, fruit drinks, sports and energy drinks, sweetened waters, pop, cola, tonic fruit punch, lemonade, sweetened powdered drinks, and coffee and tea beverages with added sugars, is a major public health problem globally...
THE dengue menace is lurking around the corner. Since January, at least 39 people have died of dengue and 3,150 people have been affected by this dengue fever. During festivals, as the prices of all essentials increase, so does the suffering. The threat of infectious diseases to public health increases too...
THIS is unacceptable that the authorities have not yet been able to make producers withdraw unauthorised electrolyte drinks even after a court order to this end. The authorities first failed to take action on their own against the unauthorised production, marketing and sales of electrolyte drinks...
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...
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...
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�...
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 Department of Public Health of the American International University-Bangladesh and the Bangladesh Cricket Board jointly organised a workshop titled...
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...
