Take urgent action to curb unnecessary C-sections
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Injected with 'wrong medicine': Nurse suspended after child’s death at Suhrawardy hospital
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Healthcare
World Leprosy Day 2026: Time to put an end to stigma as disease remains curable
25 January 2026, 02:06 AM
Five minutes that could change everything!
25 January 2026, 02:03 AM
Menstrual migraine: The hormone-linked headache many dread
25 January 2026, 01:58 AM
Kidneys in silent mode: Early signs you should not ignore
25 January 2026, 01:54 AM
The silent health threat many people carry alone
25 January 2026, 01:49 AM
Vaping, smoking and teenage wellbeing: Understanding a growing mental health concern
18 January 2026, 00:00 AM
Why does digestion often feel slower in winter?
18 January 2026, 00:00 AM
Did You Know? / We might inhale lung-penetrating microplastics daily!
18 January 2026, 00:00 AM
Drug that can save thousands of women’s lives
A new formulation of a drug to prevent excessive bleeding following childbirth could save thousands of women’s lives in low- and lower-middle-income countries,
7 July 2018, 18:00 PM
The dangers of being ‘taken for granted’
A recent study in England found that married people were 14% more likely to survive after a heart attack and they were able to leave the hospital two days’ sooner than single people having a heart attack.
7 July 2018, 18:00 PM
Antidepressant use and long-term weight gain
Antidepressants are associated with weight gain in the short term, but little is known about their long-term effects.
7 July 2018, 18:00 PM
A new tertiary level hospital in Dhaka city with promises
Impulse Hospital, a latest generation private sector hospital, has recently embarked on a joint venture health initiative, with a famous expert team of physicians of Singapore, to render world-class healthcare services to Bangladeshi patients.
7 July 2018, 18:00 PM
Novel HIV vaccine candidate found safe and responsive
New research published in The Lancet shows that an experimental HIV-1 vaccine regimen is well-tolerated and generated comparable and robust immune responses against HIV in healthy adults and rhesus monkeys.
7 July 2018, 18:00 PM
A call for renewed action to end child marriage by 2030
Girls Not Brides — the global partnership to end child marriage, hosted the world’s biggest ever global meeting on ending child marriage
30 June 2018, 18:00 PM
Apollo has launched holistic Joint Care & Wellness Center
Apollo Joint Care & Wellness Center started its journey under the supervision of country’s renowned knee surgeon Dr M Ali. The center is equipped to provide joint care and wellness services of global standard — says a press release.
30 June 2018, 18:00 PM
Talk of the day/night
In this day and age, most of us are stubbornly working and those who are not also working use our pick of social networking sites to entertain until the late night ! Doesn’t matter 2 or 3 am!
30 June 2018, 18:00 PM
Diabetes diagnoses confirmable from single-sample measurements
Measuring glycated hemoglobin and fasting glucose from the same blood sample can confirm diabetes, a study in the Annals of Internal Medicine suggests.
30 June 2018, 18:00 PM
Coding disease and death
There are few truer snapshots of a country’s wellbeing than its health statistics. While broad economic indicators such as Gross Domestic Product may skew impressions of individual prosperity, data on disease and death reveal how a population is truly faring.
30 June 2018, 18:00 PM
Remain independent in the activities of daily living
Activities of Daily Living (ADL) is very important for every person in their personal lives. There are three types of ADLs we do in our daily routine like i) self care, ii) productivity; and iii) leisure.
30 June 2018, 18:00 PM
Air pollution plays significant role in diabetes: Study
Air pollution caused one in seven new cases of diabetes in 2016, a US study says, which found even low levels raised the chances of developing the chronic disease.
30 June 2018, 07:01 AM
Life expectancy at birth rises to 72yrs in 2017
Life expectancy at birth increased to 72 years last year in Bangladesh from 71.6 years in 2016, according to a survey of Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (BBS).
27 June 2018, 10:00 AM
Apollo introduces structured bariatric & metabolic surgery
Obesity is recognised as a disease nowadays. It is not only because of overeating. The cause of obesity is multifactorial.
23 June 2018, 18:00 PM
Vitiligo and the way to recovery
Nowadays, vitiligo became a social problem in Bangladesh. Unexpectedly most people for the lack of health knowledge indicate this disorder as a contagious disease.
23 June 2018, 18:00 PM
1.45 million children’s lives saved by hib and pneumococcal vaccines since 2000
Childhood deaths from two leading bacterial causes of pneumonia and meningitis, pneumococcus and Hib,
23 June 2018, 18:00 PM
Modern blood cancer treatments require new approaches
Survival rates for blood cancers — including lymphoma, myeloma and some types of leukaemia — have dramatically increased over the past decade, due in great part to novel treatment approaches including molecularly-targeted therapies and immunotherapies.
23 June 2018, 18:00 PM
Job strain linked to increased risk of premature death for men with cardiometabolic disease
Having a demanding job and little control over it is associated with an increased risk of premature death in men with coronary heart disease, stroke, or diabetes,
23 June 2018, 18:00 PM
Asia prepares to roll out mat for ‘International Yoga Day’
Millions of people around the world will roll out their yoga mats on June 21 to mark the fourth edition of International Yoga Day.
20 June 2018, 08:57 AM
Suicide 2nd highest cause of death in people aged 15-29
The recent deaths of fashion designer Kate Spade and celebrity chef Anthony Bourdain have cast a spotlight on a jarring spike in suicides worldwide and on the importance of confronting the issue.
14 June 2018, 06:12 AM