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…
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…
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…
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.
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…
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…
Health and Family Welfare Minister Mohammad Nasim on Sunday said the existing law under the BMDC regulating practicing physicians would be updated to make the doctors more accountable. “The government is thinking of incorporating a new provision of investigation and…
Transplantation of bone marrow has been completed for the first time in Bangladesh. A group of physicians led by Prof MA Khan, head of hematology and oncology department of Dhaka Medical College Hospital and Dr Bimalangshu Dey of Massachusetts General…
By James Gallagher Doctors at Great Ormond Street Hospital in London are aiming to reconstruct people’s faces with stem cells taken from their fat. The team has grown cartilage in the laboratory and believe it could be used to rebuild…
Patients in agonies as surgeries suspended All kinds of surgical operation at Bhola Sadar Hospital have remained suspended over the last seven months for want of anesthetists, much to the sufferings for surgical patients.
The government is actively considering enacting a law to force the private medical colleges to fulfill their conditions in a bid to ensure quality medical education. Health Minister Mohammad Nasim, who after assuming office talking tough against errant doctors, made…
Bangladesh’s grim malnutrition situation can be overturned by dedicated nutrition workers, a project evaluation report suggests. With 41 percent under-five children too small in height for their age, and 36 percent underweight, according to BDHS, Bangladesh is one of the…
Integrating HIV treatment with the sexual reproductive health regime remains a priority for UNAIDS in Bangladesh. It said in a media release that this would be reflected in the application for new and ongoing funding through ‘The Global Fund’.
When doctors examined an X-ray image of the knees of a woman experiencing severe joint pain, they found a gold mine: hundreds of tiny gold acupuncture needles left in her tissue. The 65-year-old South Korean woman had previously been diagnosed…
Food prepared away from home is typically higher in calories and lower in nutrition than food prepared at home, but it now makes up more than one-third of all calories purchased in the United States.
Researchers have innovated an inactivated quadrivalent influenza vaccine (QIV) that is effective in preventing influenza A, B in children aged 3 to 8 years, according to a study. The vaccine proved to have about 59 percent efficacy for influenza of…
A specialised and full- fledged child-friendly Eye Unit was inaugurated at Deep Eye Care Foundation (DECF) Hospital here on Monday to provide eye treatments to the children of Rangpur region.
The process of glycosylation, where sugar molecules are attached to proteins, has long been of interest to scientists, particularly because certain sugar molecules are present in very high numbers in cancer cells. It now turns out that these sugar molecules…
By Eleanor Bradford
Research from the School of Medicine at The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio suggests the exciting possibility of using cell transplants to treat schizophrenia.
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By Anna Soubry
A new report released in Panama City by The World Health Organisation (WHO) on Wednesday shows that one-third of the world’s population – 2.3 billion people – are now covered by at least one life-saving policy measure to curb tobacco…