ANTIMICROBIAL resistance has become a major health concern because of poor healthcare standards, compounded by the misuse and abuse of antibiotics. Antibiotic resistance results in a decreased ability to treat infection, leading to increased illness, death and an increased cost of treatment. The Global Antibiotic Resistance Surveillance Report 2025 finds that several widely...
Nearly 80 per cent of the world鈥檚 poorest, or about 900 million people, are directly exposed to climate hazards exacerbated by global warming, bearing a 鈥榙ouble and deeply unequal burden,鈥� the United Nations warned Friday.
Law adviser Asif Nazrul on Saturday urged the doctors not to prescribe unnecessary medical tests or force patients to buy medicines of specific companies, calling it a form of 鈥榯orture鈥�, particularly targeting poor patients...
The number of bank accounts holding deposits of over Tk 1 crore declined by 719 in March due to poor business environment in the country...
THE world鈥檚 poorest nations are once again discovering what it means to be peripheral to power. In the latest chapter of 21st-century great-power rivalry, Washington and Beijing have locked horns in an economic slugfest that began with tariffs and has metastasized into a geopolitical confrontation with global consequences. The fight was supposed to be about...
Residents of 18 newly included wards in the Dhaka North City Corporation at a public hearing on Tuesday complained of grappling with water stagnation, poor waste disposal, and dilapidated roads, among other issues...
THE proposition that 78 per cent of the dengue patients recorded as residents of Dhaka鈥檚 south city areas in hospital documents are from outside Dhaka is worrying on a couple of counts. This brings to the fore the weakness of the reporting mechanism put in place in hospitals. This also stands to frustrate any plan to fight against the disease. Above all else...
The late, sharp-witted economist Michael Mussa, my first boss at the International Monetary Fund, once told me that every statistic must pass the 鈥榮mell test.鈥� I recalled this sage advice recently when Indian authorities published the first driblets of a consumption survey...
