Gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) is defined as glucose intolerance of various degrees that is first detected during pregnancy.It means you have high blood sugar levels, but those levels were normal before you were pregnant. Approximately 7 per cent of all…
Nearly every day for the past month Roxana Mehran, an interventional cardiologist at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City, and her colleagues have been getting calls from patients wondering if their stents were really necessary. Yes, the doctor assures…
Dhaka, July 1 (UNB) – Health Minister Zahid Malik on Monday evening said Jatiya Party Chairman HM Ershad, now undergoing treatment at the Combined Military Hospital (CMH) here, has been put on life support as his condition turned critical. Talking…
Heat stroke is the most serious form of heat injury in which the body temperature is elevated and is considered a medical emergency. It can be fatal if not promptly and properly treated. Heat stroke can kill or cause damage…
Dhaka, July 1 – GM Quader, younger brother of Jatiya Party Chairman HM Ershad, on Monday urged all not to spread rumours over the health condition of Ershad, now undergoing treatment at the Combined Military Hospital (CMH) here. “His condition…
Dhaka, June 30 – The health condition of Jatiya Party (JP) chairman HM Ershad, who has been suffering from low haemoglobin and liver complications, has deteriorated seriously yesterday. He is on oxygen support at this moment. The JP chairman was…
Tokyo, Japan, June 2019 — People in developing countries spend half a trillion dollars annually — over $80 per person — out of their own pockets to access health services, and such expenses hit the poor the hardest, according to…
Chicago, June 29 (Xinhua/UNB) — Researchers at the University of Michigan (UM) have developed a technology to help clinicians “see” and map patient pain in real-time through special augmented reality glasses. The portable CLARAi (clinical augmented reality and artificial intelligence)…
The massive use of antibiotics, fungicides and herbicides in industrial farming is contributing to the undermining of live-saving human medicines. By GRAIN Over the past few months, we’ve been inundated with alarming new evidence on how our industrial society is…
The government has taken steps to ensure normal birth delivery services in all community clinics across the country. “Normal birth delivery services are now available at some community clinics . . . we have taken initiatives to ensure such services…
Peter Goldstein The speakers at this year’s EAT Stockholm Food Forum delivered a consistent message to the roughly 1,000 attendees: Current global diets are damaging human health and planetary well-being. The foods we produce, and the ways we produce them,…
Dhaka, June 26 (UNB) – Jatiya Party Chairman HM Ershad was admitted to the Combined Military Hospital (CMH) here on Wednesday morning as his health condition has deteriorated. Taking to UNB, Ershad’s press secretary Shunil Shuvo Roy said their chairman…
By Caley PigliucciReprint UN, Jun 21 2019 (IPS) – A recently-released report by the Washington-based Center for Global Development (CGD) shows that generic drugs, like omeprazole (used to treat heartburn), can cost 20-30 times more in low and middle-income countries…
Dhaka, June 25 (UNB) – Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan on Tuesday said dope test is going to be made compulsory for government jobs. The decision has been approved in principal by the Cabinet, he told the media at the ministry…
Dhaka, June 25 (UNB) – Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University (BSMMU) has conducted the first-ever liver transplant surgery, demonstrating the public hospital’s progress in modern healthcare service. The surgery was successfully conducted on Monday on a 20-year-old youth who had…
Dhaka, June 24 (UNB) – Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan on Monday said illegal drugs enter Bangladesh from India and Myanmar due to its geographical location. “Although Bangladesh is not a drug-producing country, it’s now facing the menace due to its…
Ashley Sumrall was an early career brain oncologist when she got a case that would stay with her for the rest of her career. Losing a patient is far from rare in her field: 90 percent of the people she…
Dhaka, June 23 (UNB) – Leaders of different anti-tobacco organisations on Sunday urged the government to impose specific tax on tobacco products and withdraw all the facilities given to tobacco companies in the national budget considering public health. They came…
Hypertension otherwise called high blood pressure, is a medicinal condition in which the blood pressure in the arteries is persistently raised. Hypertension is a major problem in our society. It does not act directly as a killer disease but gradually…
Dhaka, June 20 (UNB) – Director General of the Directorate of Drug Administration Major General Md Mahbubur Rahman on Thursday said 370 cases were filed and Tk 58.57 lakh was realised in fine for keeping expired medicines in pharmacies across…
Dhaka, June 20 (UNB)- Medically unnecessary caesarean operations increased by 51 percent in Bangladesh over the last two years costing patients 483 million dollars per year, according to a report revealed on Thursday. The report published by Save the Children…
Sangsad Bhaban, Jun 19 (UNB) – The government has planned to introduce health insurance to ensure healthcare services for people, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina told Parliament on Wednesday. As part of the plan, she said, the government has already started…
Dhaka, June 18 (UNB) – The High Court on Tuesday asked the authorities concerned to take necessary steps to remove expired medicines from pharmacy shelves across the country and destroy those within 30 days. The HC bench of Justice FRM…
By Emily Thampoe UN, Jun 17 2019 (IPS) – In a world that is becoming more and more industrial by the day, air pollution appears to be on the rise. While there have been efforts in major cities to combat…
PATNA, India, June 18, 2019 (BSS/AFP) – More than 100 children in the Indian state of Bihar — home to some of the country’s worst health indicators — have now been killed by a brain virus potentially linked to lychees,…
Rajshahi, June 16 (UNB)- A nurse died while giving birth to a baby, due to alleged wrong treatment administered by doctors at Rajshahi Medical College Hospital on Sunday night. The deceased was identified as Mrs. Dilara Khatun, 30, a nurse…
Scientists have destroyed the UK’s laboratory stocks of a virus that once caused devastating cattle losses. These stocks accounted for most of the world’s lab samples of rinderpest, which were held at The Pirbright Institute in Surrey. Rinderpest and the…
Dhaka, Jun 12 (UNB) – Imprisoned BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia on Wednesday received treatment at the Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery department of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University (BSMMU) for dental-related problems. The BNP chief, who has been undergoing treatment at…
London 10 June (TWN): In considering the public health implications of the implementation of the Nagoya Protocol on Access and Benefit Sharing related to genetic resources, the first step should be to unpack the current modalities for pathogen sharing under…
Dhaka, June 12 – A Dhaka court on Tuesday sentenced two persons to life term imprisonment for stealing a newborn baby from Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH) and trafficking about a decade ago. The life term sentenced convicts are Jharna…