Jamalpur, Apr 6 (UNB) – The government will consider releasing BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia on parole if she files an application and cites specific reasons, Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan said Saturday. “We haven’t received any request for parole so far,”…
Dhaka, Apr 2 (UNB)— Road Transport Minister Obaidul Quader was released from Singapore’s Mount Elizabeth Hospital on Friday afternoon. “His health condition is better now. His blood pressure and diabetes are under control,” said Dr Abu Naser Rizvi, director of…
Chronic exposure to higher arsenic concentration through drinking water may cause more deaths in young adults in a number of different diseases, says a new study. It reveals the different diseases include cardio-vascular disease (related to the heart), cerebro-vascular disease…
Dhaka, Apr 4 (UNB) – Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University (BSMMU) authorities on Thursday claimed that the health condition of BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia’s has improved significantly. “There’s has been marked improvement in herHer (Khaleda’s) health condition. You can say…
US regulators said Wednesday they are investigating reports that e-cigarettes — increasingly widespread in America and elsewhere — may cause seizures. “We have reports indicating that some people who use e-cigarettes, especially youth and young adults, are experiencing seizures following…
Dhaka, Apr 3 (UNB) – BNP on Wednesday feared that its chairperson Khaleda Zia is probably being “slowly poisoned by the government” in the name of treatment. “We fear whether the government is slowly poisoning her in the name of…
Dhaka, Apr 2 – Senior journalist Mahfuz Ullah was admitted to Square Hospital here on Tuesday with severe chest pain. The journalist has been kept at the coronary care unit (CCU) of the hospital under cardiologist Dr Mahbub Mansur, a…
Dhaka, Apr 2 (UNB) – Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University (BSMMU) authorities on Tuesday claimed that the health condition of BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia’s is improving. “Khaleda Zia was admitted to our hospital 24 hours back. Her condition is now…
Dhaka, Apr 2 (UNB) – BNP will observe a 6-hour token hunger strike in the capital on Sunday (Apr 7) demanding its chairperson Khaleda Zia’s release from jail. Besides, the party will arrange milad mahfil across the country on Wednesday…
Cholera has infected at least 1,052 people in Mozambique’s cyclone-hit region, the health ministry said Monday. In a new report, marking a massive increase from 139 cases reported four days ago. The mounting cases represent on average more than 200…
Data released recently by the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) and European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) reveal that antibiotics used to treat infections that can be transmitted between animals and humans (zoonoses) like campylobacteriosis and salmonellosis are…
Dhaka, Apr 1 (UNB) – Though its chairperson Khaleda Zia has been taken to Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University (BSMMU), BNP is still rigid on its stance on shifting her to any specialised hospital for ensuring her better treatment. “We’re…
Dhaka, Apr 1 (UNB) – Over an hour after Khaleda had been admitted to Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University (BSMMU), a medical board on Monday started providing Khaleda with necessary treatment for her various ailments, including severe pain in the…
The Asian-Pacific Resource and Research Centre for Women (ARROW), a Non-Governmental Organisation in Consultative Status with the Economic and Social Council has in a statement said, Universal access to sexual and reproductive health and rights and gender equality are foundational…
Speakers at a discussion here yesterday urged all government and non-government organisations to work unitedly for eliminating the deadly disease Tuberculosis (TB) from the country. “All have to work together to eliminate TB from the country to help achieving health-related…
The World Health Organization has estimated that disease strips hundreds of millions of dollars from Africa’s economic output. As the burden of untreated disease hugely outweighs the potential expense of healthcare. In a report published at the end of a…
Dhaka, Mar 29 – It was impossible to see anything as there was a dark wall of smoke everywhere. Within 10 minutes the smoke spread throughout the building making it difficult for people to escape. Exhausted and terrified, Hasina Parvin,…
UNITED NATIONS, Mar 28 2019 (IPS) – As menstruation continues to be shamed in many communities, one organisation is rising up to the challenge to ensure “safe menstruation for all women of Bangladesh.” Half of the approximately four billion women around…
MAJURO, Mar 28 2019 (IPS) – Meretha Pierson has been a nurse for the past seven years, working in the government-run leprosy clinic in Majuro, the capital of the Marshall Islands. Her patients come in all ages, from different economic backgrounds…
The kidney of a 35-year-old HIV- positive woman has been transplanted into another patient with the virus that causes AIDS, US surgeons announced Thursday, in a major medical breakthrough. The surgeons at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore performed the operation…
Dhaka, March 28 – The BNP has termed the government move to transfer party’s ailing chairperson Khaleda Zia to Central Jail in Keraniganj inhuman. “The construction work of Keraniganj prison is yet to be completed. There is no good arrangement…
Dhaka, Mar 27 (UNB) – BNP has accused the prison authorities of neglecting the health of jailed party chief Khaleda Zia, saying her condition has deteriorated further. “The jail authorities are not paying the due attention to Khaleda Zia’s health…
by Ayat Soliman Globally, 2.4 billion people still live without access to basic sanitation – and over 760 million of these people live in Sub-Saharan Africa. Today only 27% of Sub-Saharan Africa’s population has access to basic sanitation and 220…
Islamabad, Mar 26 (AP/UNB) — Pakistan’s supreme court has granted six weeks’ bail to former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif for medical treatment at a domestic hospital. In Tuesday’s ruling, the court said Sharif — who has heart-related issues — will…
WHO has issued new guidance to improve treatment of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) which recommends shifting to fully oral regimens to treat people with MDR-TB. This new treatment course is more effective and is less likely to provoke adverse side-effects. The…
The World Tuberculosis (TB) Day-2019 is being observed in the country today like elsewhere in the globe. To create awareness against the devastating health, social and economic consequences of TB disease and mobilize political and social commitments to eliminate it…
Dhaka, Mar 19 (UNB) – BNP secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Tuesday alleged that their chairperson Khaleda Zia neither can eat anything properly nor keep her head straight as her health condition has seriously deteriorated. “She vomited today…
Bangladeshi researchers and US collaborators have jointly developed a method to use blood samples to identify individuals recently infected with cholera aiming to improve cholera surveillance. Six blood serum markers identified in cholera patients have been shown to confirm recent…
Dhaka, Mar 9 (UNB) – The artificial life support of ailing Road, Transport and Bridges Minister and Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Qauder has been removed after the improvement of his health condition. The minister is now can talk to his…
Health Desk Padma Bank Limited today honoured the country’s first woman DNA analyst, Nusrat Sharmin, on the occasion of International Women’s Day. Padma Bank Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) M Ehsan Khasru handed over a crest to the…