Health
Halt unnecessary C-sections, NHRC urges govt
The National Human Rights Commission has urged the secretary of the Directorate General of Health Services to halt unnecessary C-sections, enhance women’s awareness in this regard, and penalise those responsible for the abnormal spike in Caesareans
Fight against TB back on track after Covid disruptions: WHO
Deaths from tuberculosis dipped last year amid a dramatic increase in diagnosis and treatment of the world's second deadliest disease, the World Health Organization said Tuesday
Fact check: AI doctors on social media spreading fake claims
Videos of AI-generated doctors giving health and beauty tips on social media are becoming hugely popular, generating millions of clicks. How accurate are their claims? And how dangerous is AI in the medical field
Containing dengue: The deaths belie claims of success
The crisis has reached a stage where a victim's family now accepts its fate as an unavoidable misfortune
BSMMU opens 2-bed ICU unit for children with kidney disease
Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University opened a two-bed intensive care unit (ICU) on the third flood of its Block-D today
40,000 bags of saline needed daily: health minister
Health and Family Welfare Minister Zahid Maleque today said instruction has been given to keep ready enough supply of saline as dengue cases have increased tenfold across the country
Migraine: How it starts and how to treat it
A migraine is more than just a bad headache. What can trigger a migraine and what effective treatments are available?
Eliminating Aedes: JU, DNCC to set up research centre on campus
Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) and Jahangirnagar University (JU) have signed a memorandum of understanding to establish a research centre on the university campus with an aim to eliminate the menace of Aedes mosquitoes
Bangladesh may witness worse dengue outbreak this year: experts
Health experts have warned that the country may witness an even worse outbreak of Aedes mosquito-borne dengue this year as the presence of this virus-carrying insect has increased in the early days of summer
Physicians lack sincerity in serving people: health secretary
"In few hospitals it happens that physicians gossip. They don't pay attention to the patients, which should not happen..." he said
Prof Kamrul Hasan Khan re-elected as deputy speaker of IPPNW
Prof Dr Kamrul Hasan Khan, former vice-chancellor of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University (BSMMU), has been re-elected as the deputy speaker of International Physician of Nuclear War (IPPNW), said a press release
Dengue: 13 hospitalised across country
At least 13 dengue patients were hospitalised across the country in the last 24 hours till this morning
Spanish hospital pioneers new lung transplant approach
A Spanish hospital has carried out a lung transplant using a pioneering technique with a robot and a new access route that no longer requires cutting through bone, experts said on Monday
Under-5 mortality rate marks sharp fall in Bangladesh: Report
Under-5 mortality rate in Bangladesh saw a sharp decline in the past 5 years, according to a new report by the National Institute of Population Research and Training (NIPORT)
Cancer, heart disease vaccines ‘ready by end of the decade’
According to a major pharmaceutical company, vaccines for cancer, cardiovascular, autoimmune, and other conditions will be available by 2030, The Guardian reported
WHO says infertility affects 1 in 6 globally
About one in six adults globally have experienced infertility at least once in their life, the World Health Organization (WHO) said in a report on Monday, urging countries to actively collect more consistent data on the disease
Antibiotics may not help patients hospitalised with viral infections
.Most patients admitted to hospitals with acute viral infections are given antibiotics as a precaution against bacterial co-infection, but this practice may not improve survival, new research suggests..Researchers investigated the impact of antibiotic use on survival in more than 2,1
Covid booster dose stock runs out; campaign suspended
The campaign for administering first and second doses, however, will be continued, the health officials said
