Global health milestone: single-dose pill for sleeping sickness gains EU support
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Empty clinics, ailing villages: Bangladesh’s quiet rural health crisis
15 March 2026, 00:14 AM
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Global partners launch $54m effort to boost maternal nutrition in Africa
15 March 2026, 00:12 AM
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Bangladesh’s CHRF wins prestigious Wellcome grant to study severe viral pneumonia in children
15 March 2026, 00:11 AM
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The growing challenge of rare tumours — and the centres built to treat them
15 March 2026, 00:19 AM
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Study links e-cigarettes to higher blood pressure risk
15 March 2026, 00:08 AM
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Women Deliver / Gender equality goals at risk without community-led solutions – WD2026
4 March 2026, 08:03 AM
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IWD 2026 / Women Deliver calls for community-centred global reform
24 February 2026, 10:30 AM
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Women Deliver / Rewriting global development through a feminist lens
17 February 2026, 22:15 PM
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From Kigali to Narrm: How Women Deliver is advancing global feminist accountability
9 February 2026, 12:50 PM
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Improving blood safety worldwide
Transfusion medicine is a fast-moving and exciting field of research. But worldwide access to its life-saving interventions is limited to relatively few. In many regions of the developing world access to these treatments is simply not available.
2 October 2015, 18:00 PM
Seven greetings
1. Wake up early (whole house); morning has a very special flavour – promise! You will not regret.
2 October 2015, 18:00 PM
Don't delay repairing your hernia
A hernia occurs when an organ or fatty tissue squeezes through a weak spot in a surrounding muscle or connective tissue called fascia. The most common types of hernia are inguinal (inner groin), incisional (resulting from an incision), femoral (outer groin), umbilical (belly button), and hiatal (upper stomach).
2 October 2015, 18:00 PM
Umbrella rally on Int. Day of Older People
Governments at 70th UNGA promised to make sustainable development of older people too with the newly adopted SDGs. They discussed in the Open-ended Working Group on Ageing, that a new convention is required.
2 October 2015, 18:00 PM
Talk on World Mental Health held at IUB
The School of Public Health of Independent University, Bangladesh (IUB) organised a public talk on World Mental Health recently at IUB campus in Dhaka.
2 October 2015, 18:00 PM
Asthma steroids could stunt growth!
Young children given asthma medication before the age of two may not grow to their full height in later life, a preliminary report suggests.
2 October 2015, 18:00 PM
'Good bacteria' key to stopping asthma
Being exposed to "good bacteria" early in life could prevent asthma developing, say Canadian scientists.
1 October 2015, 06:16 AM
Age of menopause 'controllers' found
Sections of DNA that control when women go through the menopause have been identified by scientists.
30 September 2015, 11:06 AM
Top five foods for keeping your heart healthy
To achieve a happy and healthy life, it's important to include heart-healthy foods in one's daily routine so as to keep diseases at bay.
29 September 2015, 06:44 AM
Lab-grown kidneys work in animals
Scientists say they are a step closer to growing fully functioning replacement kidneys, after promising results in animals.
22 September 2015, 05:54 AM
Hope for faster treatment of urinary tract infections
Urinary tract infections can be treated more quickly using a new DNA sequencing device, according to research.
21 September 2015, 07:04 AM
Hope for faster treatment of UTI
Urinary tract infections can be treated more quickly using a new DNA sequencing device, according to research, reports BBC.
19 September 2015, 18:00 PM
Killing our egos - 2
A classic egoistic person believes in rigidity. They forget - ‘everybody makes mistakes, only the wise learn from them’.
19 September 2015, 18:00 PM
Moni Begum to attend the UNGA70
Moni Begum, 16, studying in class 10, attending United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) 70 to advocate for ending child marriage and
19 September 2015, 18:00 PM
Bulimia, an eating disorder
Last week I received a female patient of 12 years old with a lean and thin body. According to her mother, she eats a lot and soon after
19 September 2015, 18:00 PM
Addressing NCDs in emergencies
In the shadow of the humanitarian crisis in Ukraine, people are struggling to receive treatment for their non-communicable diseases
19 September 2015, 18:00 PM
Healthier lifestyles 'could cut cancer cases by a third'
About a third of cancer cases in the UK can be prevented if people ate healthily, exercised more and cut down on alcohol, figures indicate.
19 September 2015, 05:42 AM
Coffee has secret trick to stop sleep
A cup of coffee in the evening may be keeping you awake for more reasons than you realise, scientists say.
17 September 2015, 11:33 AM
'Youngest' toddler with type 2 diabetes raises concern
The case of a three-year-old girl in the US who developed type 2 diabetes has driven doctors to raise fresh concerns about diet in childhood.
17 September 2015, 07:44 AM
Implant traps spreading cancer cells
A small sponge-like implant that can mop up cancer cells as they move through the body has been developed by US researchers. So far
12 September 2015, 18:00 PM