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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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Endoscopy, early warning signs and the future of digestive care
12 February 2026, 08:11 AM
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Why mouth ulcers and neck lumps should never be ignored
10 February 2026, 07:27 AM
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Protecting sight in an ageing, diabetic world
4 February 2026, 05:46 AM
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Farewell to a giant of global health: Dr William Herbert Foege, architect of smallpox eradication
8 February 2026, 04:16 AM
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Women Deliver 2026 unveils first line-up of speakers for April conference
31 January 2026, 00:07 AM
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IAS 2027 / Top HIV science meeting comes to global health hub Geneva
25 January 2026, 21:12 PM
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Pandemic reform agenda is moving, but not fast or cohesive enough
The Co-Chairs of The Independent Panel for Pandemic Preparedness and Response presented their findings recently in the new report titled Losing Time: End this pandemic and secure the future.
27 November 2021, 18:00 PM
Manage your sinus attack this winter
A sinus stack usually involves pain in the forehead or between the eyes, upper teeth ache, heavy full face feeling, stuffed and congested nose. In addition, you may have a common complaint that sends many people to a doctor’s office.
27 November 2021, 18:00 PM
Coordinated action needed to tackle antimicrobial resistance
Antibiotic resistance (AMR) is one of the biggest public health challenges of our time.
27 November 2021, 18:00 PM
Is your child suffering from odontophobia?
Has it ever occurred to you that your child is afraid of the dentist? Fear of going to the hospital or dentist is relatively frequent, even among adults. However, if that dread causes your kid distress or prevents them from attending the dentist, it is time to start paying attention.
20 November 2021, 18:00 PM
Keys to shed calories after 40
Diet and exercise are key to optimal health. The risk of many chronic illnesses increases with age. Here are some tips to lose weight after 40:
20 November 2021, 18:00 PM
Low energy diets for weight management in adults with Type 2 Diabetes
A new study published in a journal entitled “Diabetologia” finds that low energy diets with formula meal replacements are the most effective
20 November 2021, 18:00 PM
An integrated action plan is needed to overcome the diabetic pandemic
Diabetes is one of the four major types of noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) that enormously contribute to morbidity and mortality worldwide.
20 November 2021, 18:00 PM
Rodents could be asymptomatic carriers of SARS-like Coronaviruses
SARS-like coronaviruses may be silent in rodents. Some ancestral rodents likely had repeated infections with SARS-like Coronaviruses, leading
20 November 2021, 18:00 PM
Avoid taking medicines unnecessarily
Lifestyle is considered a significant factor of health. An unhealthy lifestyle leads to several non-communicable diseases. If you successfully follow a healthy lifestyle, you might avoid, delay or reduce the need for medication.
13 November 2021, 18:00 PM
Diabetes caused 1.5 million fatalities worldwide
Diabetes is a long-term illness characterised by inadequate insulin synthesis or poor insulin administration. Insulin is a hormone that regulates blood sugar levels. Hyperglycaemia, or high blood sugar, is caused by uncontrolled diabetes, and it damages a variety of body systems, including neurons and blood vessels.
13 November 2021, 18:00 PM
Innovative cancer therapy shows early promise
Cancer treatment involves early awareness, early prevention, screening/early detection and early treatment. The bacterial defensive mechanism is a renewed interest in cell gene editing simplified by Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats (CRISPR) technology.
13 November 2021, 18:00 PM
Air pollution: A silent killer of people and planet?
How people cook their food, how nations generate power directly impact the health of millions worldwide and planet Earth’s ability to support human life. For example, in Bangladesh alone, in-home polluted air from wood or coal-powered stoves and outdoor pollution from power stations and unplanned construction causes over 200,000 annual deaths from respiratory diseases.
13 November 2021, 18:00 PM
Does taking aspirin before a stroke actually help?
Despite changing recommendations, aspirin is widely used to prevent vascular events such as myocardial infarction and stroke. Studies showed that 15% to 40% of patients with ischemic stroke are already taking aspirin at the stroke time.
13 November 2021, 18:00 PM
Role of antioxidants in cancer prevention
Cancer is becoming one of Bangladesh’s leading causes of mortality. The incidence of cancer is rising. The uncontrolled growth of body cells is called cancer.
6 November 2021, 18:00 PM
Drinking alcohol to stay healthy? That might not work!
Increased mortality risk among current alcohol abstainers might largely be explained by other factors, including previous alcohol or drug problems, daily smoking, and overall poor health, according to a new by Ulrich John of University Medicine Greifswald, Germany, and colleagues.
6 November 2021, 18:00 PM
Cervical cancer rates reduced by 87% in vaccinated women
Cervical cancer rates are 87% lower in women who were offered vaccination against human papillomavirus (HPV) when they were between the ages of 12-13 than in previous generations, confirms a new study published in The Lancet.
6 November 2021, 18:00 PM
Genetic study of heart defects and autism finds new causative genes
Researchers identified almost two dozen genes that contribute to heart defects by studying genetic data from people born with congenital heart disease or autism.
6 November 2021, 18:00 PM
Know the warning signs of liver cancer
Your liver does a lot for you, like filter your blood and break down food. It is one of your largest and most important organs. When you have liver cancer, some cells there grow out of control and form a tumour. That can affect liver functions.
6 November 2021, 18:00 PM
Drugs to add in lowing high blood pressure
Adding a new medication is associated with better blood pressure lowering. In drug-treated patients with hypertension whose blood pressure
30 October 2021, 18:00 PM
Speeding up efforts to eradicate TB
The Ministers of Health of countries in the World Health Organisation (WHO) South-East Asia Region recently committed to renew and
30 October 2021, 18:00 PM