DHAKA: The government is set to observe the first ever National Health Services Week, slated for April 16-20, aims at raising awareness about health.  Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will inaugurate the Health Services Week at Bangabandhu International Conference Center around 10am on

Given the shortage of medical specialists in the country, Bhutan Prime Minister Dr Lotay Tshering said Bhutan will request Bangladesh for specialists. “I will request PM Sheikh Hasina to support us with some (medical) specialists that will be an immediate help for Bhutan”, said

DHAKA: Most of the people are becoming antibiotic resistant that is antibiotics are not working for the disease. As a result, health sector or public health is facing huge threats, experts said. The horrifying information was revealed this at a seminar organized at the Sasakawa

Sydney Brenner, a Nobel Prize-winning biologist who helped decipher the genetic code and whose research on a roundworm sparked a new field of human disease research, has died. He was 92. The Salk Institute for Biological Studies in California, where Brenner spent part of his

DHAKA: Health and Family Welfare Minister Zahid Maleque said medicine for tuberculosis will be produced in Bangladesh soon. The minister said, “A project has been taken for the production of tuberculosis medicine. Besides, diseases which are not contagious are increasing day by day.

Failing to apply moisturiser with sun protection factor (SPF) and sunscreen properly to the face, particularly around eyes, could be putting people at risk of skin cancer, a study suggests. Researchers found differences in the way people applied sunscreen and SPF moisturiser. More

Mozambicans lined up Wednesday to get cholera vaccines in the cyclone-hit city of Beira, at the start of a drive to inoculate nearly 900,000 storm survivors as part of efforts contain an outbreak of the deadly disease. Beira's Mayor Daviz Simango was among those who swallowed the

DHAKA: The government has appointed Prof Abul Kalam Azad as Director General (DG) for health services for the second term, on contractual basis. Health and Family Welfare Ministry issued a press release, in this regard, Wednesday (March 27). Public Administration Ministry’s

JASHORE: A woman gives birth to twins at a Jashore hospital, 26 days after she gave birth to a baby boy at Khulna Medical College Hospital (KMCH). Earlier on February 25, Arifa Sultana Eti, wife of Sumon Biswas of Shymalgachhi village in Sharsha upazila, gave birth to a baby boy at

A clinical psychologist has warned the public not to watch horrific footage of the massacre in a Christchurch mosque today. Ian Lambie shared the message, along with advice on how to cope after at least two gunmen opened fire at two central Christchurch mosques. Dozens are feared dead.

DHAKA:  Approximately five children die of kidney disease every hour in the world, said doctors of Pediatric Nephrology Society of Bangladesh (PNSB). “There is a child afflicted with kidney disease among every 10 children,” PNSB also said at a press conference organized on the

DHAKA: All the government hospitals, clinics and healthcare centers, at the outdoor departments, will provide free treatment on Sunday (Mar 17), marking 99th birth anniversary of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and National Children Day 2019. The health ministry

The number of early deaths caused by air pollution is double previous estimates, according to research, meaning toxic air is killing more people than tobacco smoking. The scientists used new data to estimate that nearly 800,000 people die prematurely each year in Europe because of

DHAKA: Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Tuesday (Mar 12) has directed authorities concerned to set up Intensive Care Unit (ICU) in all the state-run hospitals countrywide. The premier issued the order so that the commoners can be privileged with ICU care at comparatively low cost.

CHATTOGRAM: Chittagong Medical College Hospital (CMCH) fired as many as 350 special ayas and wardboys in response of ‘various complaints. The hospital authority issued a notice asking them not to attend work from Wednesday (Mar 6) on.    “There are more than one complaint

An HIV-positive man apparently has become the second known person in the world to be free of the AIDS virus. The London man has not been identified. Doctors said the patient received a bone marrow transplant three years ago from a donor who is HIV resistant. The man stopped

DHAKA: Doctors at Mount Elizabeth Hospital in Singapore diagnosed infection, kidney problem to ailing Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Qauder, said party Deputy Office Secretary Biplob Barua. Doctors started treatment of Quader immediately after the air ambulance of Mount

THAKURGAON: A total of five members of the same family in Baliadangi upazila of Thakurgaon who have died recently were infected by the rare Nipah virus, said Thakurgaon Civil Surgeon Dr Abu Md Khairul Kabir. He disclosed the development in this regard at a press conference at his

DHAKA: World renowned cardiologist Dr Devi Shetty arrived in Dhaka Monday (Mar 4) from Bangaluru via Kolkata of India for the treatment of Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader. He reached the BSMMU around 1:30pm where Quader, also General Secretary ruling Awami League,

DHAKA: Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina directed the authorities concerned to protect the quality of medicines produced here as those are being exported abroad. The premier made the directives at an ECNEC meeting held at the NEC Conference Room in Sher-e-Bangla Nagar of Dhaka Wednesday