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Empty clinics, ailing villages: Bangladesh’s quiet rural health crisis
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Global partners launch $54m effort to boost maternal nutrition in Africa
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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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Covid-19: 20 die, 1,873 infected, 296 recover in a day
Twenty people -- 16 male and four female -- have died with coronavirus infections in the last 24 hours, the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) says.
23 May 2020, 08:41 AM
CMP constable dies with Covid-19 like symptoms
A constable of Chattogram Metropolitan Police (CMP) has died at Chattogram General Hospital with Covid-19 like symptoms.
23 May 2020, 06:04 AM
Digital Roundtable on urban health affected by COVID-19
CARE Bangladesh in partnership with The Daily Star organized an online discussion on the rapid assessment undertaken by CARE Bangladesh's Urban Health Team on urban health affected by COVID-19 in Gazipur.
21 May 2020, 10:56 AM
Europe mobilising over 334m euro for fight against Covid-19 in Bangladesh
The European Union (EU) has said it is mobilising over 334 million euro [equivalent to around 31 billion BDT] for the fight against Covid-19 and its consequences in Bangladesh.
21 May 2020, 07:09 AM
“Moner Daktar” provides psychological support online
Amid the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, the uncertainty of the future weighs heavily on many people’s minds. At a time like this, having a healthy psychological state may be one of the most significant issues.
19 May 2020, 14:48 PM
Do you need to wear gloves at the grocery store?
We are cooking at home more than ever before because of COVID-19, and grocery shopping has become one of the few essential errands we leave the house for.
16 May 2020, 18:00 PM
Rationing ventilators during the COVID-19 epidemic
As the COVID-19 epidemic exploded, many hospitals began creating triage policies to prepare for the possibility of having to ration ventilators.
16 May 2020, 18:00 PM
COPD and smoking associated with higher COVID-19 mortality
Current smokers and people with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) have an increased risk of severe complications and higher
16 May 2020, 18:00 PM
Genome sequencing of Coronavirus from Bangladesh - what’s next?
A team of Bangladeshi scientists at the Child Health Research Foundation (CHRF) has successfully managed to complete the genome sequencing of SARS-CoV-2 i.e. Coronavirus in Bangladesh very recently.
16 May 2020, 18:00 PM
COVID-19 dilemma: lives or livelihood?
‘Lives or livelihood?’ is the conflict haunting nations worldwide and Bangladesh is no exception. Whether to impose stricter restrictions to contain the virus or to relax such measures to earn livelihood has become the prime dilemma in the combat against the novel coronavirus.
16 May 2020, 18:00 PM
Highest number of new Covid-19 cases in a day reported
Fourteen people died with coronavirus infections in the last 24 hours, the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) said today.
10 May 2020, 08:44 AM
Convalescent plasma therapy available in Dhaka to combat COVID-19
Evercare Hospital Dhaka has conducted the first ever convalescent plasma (CP) therapy in Bangladesh recently, says a press release. Successfully conducted in many developed countries recently, this therapy is a promising research treatment to combat the global pandemic of coronavirus disease (COVID-19).
9 May 2020, 18:00 PM
Vigorous activity or sedentary behaviour is not associated with risk for knee osteoarthritis
Patients and some clinicians still are concerned that physical activity, particularly vigorous physical activity, might be associated with excess risk for knee osteoarthritis (OA), despite considerable evidence to the contrary.
9 May 2020, 18:00 PM
Billions worldwide living with herpes
About half a billion people worldwide are living with genital herpes, and several billion have an oral herpes infection, new estimates show, highlighting the need to improve awareness and scale up services to prevent and treat herpes.
9 May 2020, 18:00 PM
Treating cancer during COVID-19
People with cancer appear to be at increased risk of Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) and their outcomes are worse than those of individuals without cancer. This is especially valid for cancer patients with other diseases like cardiovascular disease, diabetes, kidney disease etc.
9 May 2020, 18:00 PM
COVID-19: money, mind and beyond
While having no promising success so far against the Coronavirus disease (COVID-19), social distancing and quarantine are the only preventive measures advised by experts around the world.
9 May 2020, 18:00 PM
Doctor who treated first US Covid patient fears second wave
The doctor who treated the first Covid-19 patient in the United States has he fears a second outbreak of the disease when lockdown measures are lifted.
5 May 2020, 04:54 AM
How COVID-19 patients can avoid ICU management
We know that intensive care unit (ICU) is for critically ill patients. We also know that we have a scarcity of ICU beds as well as specialists in critical care management in Bangladesh.
2 May 2020, 18:00 PM
The COVID-19 pandemic must not divert attention
If resources are diverted away from child and adolescent tuberculosis (TB) programmes in order to fight COVID-19, the consequences for the
2 May 2020, 18:00 PM
The intelligent knife: new approach to cancer surgery
Scientists have developed an ‘intelligent knife’ that can tell surgeons immediately whether the tissue they are cutting is cancerous or not. An international team speculated that the metabolic status of tissue, as assessed by mass spectrometry, might aid in this process.
2 May 2020, 18:00 PM