Police on Thursday arrested Abu Sufian, an employee of ZH Sikder Women’s Medical College Hospital, on charge of assaulting Prothom Alo reporter Shishir Morol. Police arrested Sufian, a telephone operator of the hospital, in the afternoon. Hospital sources said the…
The World Health Organization (WHO) has declared the spread of polio is an international public health emergency.
That seems to be the magic number when it comes to optimal sleep time, according to new research that looked at the connection between sleeping habits and age-related memory loss.
Health Minister Mohammad Nasim on Sunday alleged that a particular quarter is conspiring to destabilise the country’s health sector in a bid to put the government into trouble. “Those who’ve failed to assume power are now active to put the…
Five new deaths from the Mers coronavirus have been announced in Saudi Arabia, taking the country’s death toll from the disease to 92. It comes as Egypt recorded its first case, in a 27-year-old man who had recently returned from…
Doctors at Bangladesh’s first-ever bone marrow transplant unit conducted the second stem cell transplant on Saturday even as the first patient was released from the hospital and recovering fast at home. Prof MA Khan who led the team told bdnews24.com…
Saima Wazed Hossain has suggested taking concerted efforts in finding a locally designed and effective indigenous mechanism and diagnostic to manage autism that is appropriate for Asian culture. Saima, also daughter of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, observed that Asian countries…
Turkish Ambassador to Dhaka Huseyin Muftuoglu yesterday stressed the need for ensuring quality and skills of doctors, nurses and others associated with cancer treatment. He made this comment while visiting Ahsania Mission Cancer & General Hospital (AMCGH) at Uttara.
The government has formed three separate enquiry committees following the recent incidents at Birdem General Hospital, Sir Salimullah Medical College (Mitford) Hospital and Rajshahi Medical College Hospital. This was stated by Health Minister Mohammad Nasim after a meeting with leaders…
Two cases were filed against 300 interns of Rajshahi Medical College Hospital (RMCH) in connection with Sunday’s attack on journalists. Officer-in-charge of Rajpara Police Station Khan Mohammad Erfan said President of Bangladesh Photo Journalists Association Rajshahi unit Asaduzzaman Asad filed…
A Dhaka court has taken cognisance of two cases filed by the BIRDEM General Hospital and relatives of a patient who died there during treatment. Metropolitan Magistrate Mizanur Rahman ordered judicial investigations into the cases on Sunday. A case was…
Twelve bars of gold have been recovered from the stomach of a businessman in the Indian capital, Delhi, a surgeon treating him has said.
Nobel laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus visited Taiwan from April 10 to 14, at the invitation of National Central University, Taiwan and the Rotary Club of Taiwan. A Memorandum of understanding (MoU) was ceremonially signed on 14th April, 2014 between Yunus…
Doctors of BIRDEM have stopped working in protest of an alleged assault by relatives of a patient who died in the hospital. In a press release on Tuesday, the doctors said they will not treat patients until the ‘attackers’ were…
Health and Family Planning Minister Mohammad Nasim on Tuesday said the law against food adulteration will be enforced so hard that no one will dare committing the crime. “Those involved in food tainting will get stringent punishment,” he said during…
The study is a “major breakthrough” and marks a “turning point” in hepatitis C treatment, said experts.
Kidney expert Prof. Dr. MA Samad on Sunday observed that the students of schools and colleges could play significant role in creating awareness among their family members and society and also can bring changes in their own lives through changing…
Microsoft officially abandoned Windows XP this week and urged customers to upgrade, which means no more security updates and patches for the majority of users still running the operating system.
The ICDDR,B has decided to stop production of the saline until it gets registration from Directorate of Drug Administration in accordance with the drug act of 1982 and it will not be used in any hospital, said a press release…
Hundreds of millions of pounds may have been wasted on a drug for flu that works no better than paracetamol, a landmark analysis has said.
A soldier who killed three men at a US Army base on Wednesday had an argument over a request for leave shortly before the shooting, reports say.
Aerobic exercise in your 20s may protect the brain in middle age, according to a US study.
Over 2 crore children, aged between six months and five years, will be fed Vitamin A-plus capsule under a national campaign to be observed on Saturday. “The National Vitamin A-plus Campaign will be observed across the country on Saturday (April…
At least 14 people have been detected to be carrying the germs of anthrax at Raghunathpur village in Raiganj upazila. The district civil surgeon’s office confirmed the presence of the viral disease in their bodies through a medical test on…
Eating seven or more portions of fruit and vegetables a day is healthier than the five currently recommended and would prolong lives, researchers say.
Health and Family Welfare Minister Mohammad Nasim on Monday said a new law will be enacted to try the accused doctors. “We’re working for formulating a new law. If any physician is found guilty of any wrongdoings or any allegation…
A patient has died at the Rajshahi Medical College and Hospital (RMCH) while hundreds in Rajshahi city go without treatment with doctors on strike since Thursday in protest against the jailing of a clinic owner, a physician himself. Rajshahi Chief…
All the 11 countries of World Health Organisation (WHO) South-East Asia Region, including Bangladesh, have been certified polio-free by an independent commission under the WHO certification process. WHO South-East Asia Region based in New Delhi made this announcement through a…
The International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease and Research, Bangladesh (ICDDR,B) has warned consumers against buying its rice-based oral saline outside its centre. ICDDR,B team in Sierra Leone: It says its Employees’ Multipurpose Cooperative Society sells this life-saving saline only through their…
It’s no secret that drinking and driving can be a deadly mix. But the role of alcohol in U.S. traffic deaths may be substantially underreported on death certificates, according to a study in the March issue of the Journal of…