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FE Report 2017-10-31 10:40:54
Outdoor medical services at Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH) remained suspended on Tuesday, causing immense suffering to the patients, as intern doctors went on work abstention to press home thei...
-- 2017-10-30 12:00:00
Concentrations of CO2 in the Earth's atmosphere surged to a record high in 2016, according to the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO). Last year's increase was 50 per cent higher than the a...
-- 2017-10-30 10:10:25
Scientists have developed a novel vaccine candidate that may prevent HIV infection by stimulating an immune response against sugars that form a protective shield around the virus. “An obs...
-- 2017-10-29 12:00:00
Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University (BSMMU) is going to introduce 24-hour laboratory services tomorrow (Monday) to fulfil emergency needs of critical patients. "We will expand our lab service...
BBC 2017-10-27 12:19:36
Open heart surgery appears to be safer in the afternoon because of the body's internal clock, scientists have said. The body clock - or circadian rhythm - is the reason we want to sleep at night, but...
BBC 2017-10-26 12:00:00
Up to 300,000 people with long-term mental health problems have to leave their jobs each year, a report says. It also claims poor mental health costs the UK economy up to £99bn each year. Prim...
Our Correspondent 2017-10-26 01:01:09
JHENIDAH, Oct 25: Six members of an impoverished family in a village under the district are suffering from incurable neurofibromatosis (causing various pimple-shaped tumors to form literally everywher...
FE Online Desk 2017-10-25 12:00:00
Touch screen computer interfaces lead consumers to choose unhealthy food, Chinese University of Hong Kong or CUHK Business School says in a study. It observed the increasing use of technology such as...
FE Online Desk Report 2017-10-25 12:00:00
The government has declared its Secretariat, the country’s central administrative hub, a smoking-free zone. The cabinet division recently wrote to the secretaries of all ministries to ensure th...
BBC 2017-10-25 11:18:24
A new vaccine that could prevent up to nine-in-10 cases of typhoid fever has been recommended by the World Health Organization. Experts say it could have a "huge impact" on the 22 million cases, and...
BBC 2017-10-23 12:30:33
The World Health Organization has revoked the appointment of Zimbabwe's Robert Mugabe as a goodwill ambassador following a widespread outcry. "I have listened carefully to all who have expressed thei...
-- 2017-10-23 11:27:43
More patients should be told to go home and rest rather than be given antibiotics, according to health officials. Public Health England (PHE) says up to a fifth of antibiotic prescriptions are unnece...
Xinhua 2017-10-22 01:11:04
E-cigarettes appear to trigger unique immune responses as well as the same ones that cigarettes trigger that can lead to lung disease, according to a new study, published this week in the American Tho...
FE Online Desk 2017-10-21 12:00:00
HSBC and WaterAid Bangladesh started a new programme with an aim to ensure safe water and sanitation for people of remote and marginalised area of the country, said a statement. Under the programme,...
FE Online Desk 2017-10-21 12:00:00
A seminar titled 'Bangladesh national conference on policy implications of population ageing' will be held Sunday at PKSF auditorium in Dhaka. PKSF and HelpAge International jointly arranged the even...
BBC 2017-10-20 12:00:00
Pollution has been linked to nine million deaths worldwide in 2015, a report in The Lancet has found. Almost all of these deaths occurred in low- and middle-income countries, where pollution could ac...
-- 2017-10-19 01:12:27
Experts at the week-long training programme on cancer styled Cancer Medical Mission-2017 jointly organised by Partners for World Health (PWH) and Rotary Club of Dhaka Mavericks at the National Institu...
BBC 2017-10-18 11:28:32
A drug-based therapy appears to restore breathing in rats paralysed from the neck down by a spinal injury, according to scientists. They hope their "exciting but early" findings could ultimately help...
-- 2017-10-17 08:12:37
Ovaries are responsible for the hormones estrogen and progesterone that bring on periods, contribute to feminine anatomy and sustain pregnancy. However, like most other areas of the body, this helpfu...
Reuters 2017-10-17 02:42:12
An experimental cancer drug discovered by Hutchison China MediTech has demonstrated promising activity in shrinking tumors in lung cancer patients whose disease had worsened following treatment with a...
-- 2017-10-16 12:00:00
The World Food Day (WFD) is being observed in the country as elsewhere in the globe today (Monday). This year’s theme is “Change the future of migration, invest in food security and rural...
BBC 2017-10-16 01:23:20
"Super-sized" chocolate bars are to be banished from hospital shops, canteens and vending machines, NHS (National Health Service) England says. Sweets and chocolate sold in hospitals should be 250 ca...
BBC 2017-10-15 12:39:46
Conjoined twins born in a remote village in the Democratic Republic of Congo have survived a 15-hour journey on the back of a motorbike to be separated. They were then flown to the capital, Kinshasa,...
-- 2017-10-15 06:06:04
The number of deaths due to neurological disorders like Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s disease, stroke and epilepsy has increased by 36.7 per cent worldwide between 1990 and 2015, a study say...
BBC 2017-10-14 11:44:24
A hallucinogen found in magic mushrooms can "reset" the brains of people with untreatable depression, raising hopes of a future treatment, scans suggest. The small study gave 19 patients a single dos...
Reuters 2017-10-12 12:00:00
Married men who see their relationship with their spouse improve over the years may also experience positive changes in their health that can lower the risk of heart disease, a recent U.K. study sugge...
-- 2017-10-11 12:00:00
More children and teenagers in Bangladesh are obese now than before like many other developing countries, a new study suggests blaming food marketing, policies, and pricing, reports bdnews24.com. Ban...
BBC 2017-10-11 12:00:00
Child and teenage obesity levels have risen ten-fold in the last four decades, meaning 124m boys and girls around the globe are too fat, according to new research. The analysis in the Lancet is the l...
-- 2017-10-10 12:41:39
Dhaka is one of the 50 cities of the global network committed to saving lives by preventing non-communicable diseases (NCDs) such as heart problems, cancer, diabetes and injuries. The Bloomberg Phila...
-- 2017-10-10 12:00:00
Health and Family Welfare Minister Mohammed Nasim has said the forcibly displaced Myanmar nationals would be fed with Oral Cholera Vaccine (OCV) from today (Tuesday). "We will start a week-long progr...
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