United Healthcare performs Bangladesh's first robotic surgeries
31 August 2026
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Eat today, protect tomorrow
30 August 2026
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Study points to the need for more effective TB screening strategies in people with HIV
30 August 2026
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The fracture forecast / AI spots risk years ahead
30 August 2026
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If Ebola crosses borders, is Bangladesh prepared?
30 August 2026
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The doctor who swallowed bacteria to prove medicine wrong
30 August 2026
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Too young for type 2? Not anymore
30 August 2026
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Step carefully: Protecting your feet from diabetes
23 August 2026
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Small ways to stop stress stealing your day
23 August 2026
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The insulin resistance paradox scientists are unravelling
23 August 2026
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Youth with fever and breathing problem dies in Narail
A 26-year-old, suffering from fever and breathing problem, has died 15 minutes after being admitted at Narail General Hospital.
1 April 2020
Solidarity is the most powerful weapon against coronavirus: Chinese ambassador
Chinese Ambassador to Bangladesh Li Jiming has written an open letter to the people of Bangladesh, saying that China and its people will stay with the country in this war against the common enemy of coronavirus.
31 March 2020
Take immediate steps to prevent dengue: PM
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has asked the authorities concerned to take immediate steps to check mosquitoes, in order to prevent dengue across the country.
31 March 2020
Weekly report on COVID-19 launched by NSU
The researchers from the Department of Public Health of North South University (NSU) have launched a weekly report that monitors
28 March 2020
Factors affecting suicide risk in people with alcohol use disorder
Although heightened risk for suicide has long been associated with alcohol use disorder (AUD), questions remain about the potentially confounding influences of psychiatric comorbidities and familial factors.
28 March 2020
Infant sleep problems linked to later emotional disorders in children
Sleep problems, common in infancy, have been associated with emotional and behavioural issues in early childhood.
28 March 2020
COVID-19: Panic buying is happening due to online peer pressure
Public health emergencies have been demonstrated to have an impact on the behavioural health of the affected population.
28 March 2020
Biodegradable stents for ERCP: dream or reality?
Biodegradable stents have been a longstanding dream for endoscopy in general, and for endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP) in particular.
28 March 2020
Novel coronavirus disease: prevention is better than cure
Barely one-fifth of the ongoing century has passed, but the scenario is already projecting a gloomy forecast of the future.
28 March 2020
Taming coronavirus rampage: An efficient and inclusive approach is the need of the hour
The outbreak of coronavirus is deepening in the country and the risks on public health and overall economy is getting high.
28 March 2020
No shortage in medicine supply, yet prices still high
Asad Haider, a resident in the port city’s Rahattar Pool area, has been suffering from peptic ulcer for a long time. He was prescribed medicines for three months. One of the medicines he has to take is Sergel (Esomeprazole 20mg).
27 March 2020
Similarities and differences: COVID-19 and influenza
As the COVID-19 outbreak continues to evolve, comparisons have been drawn to influenza. Both cause respiratory disease, yet there are important differences between the two viruses and how they spread. This has important implications for the public health measures that can be implemented to respond to each virus.
21 March 2020
How long does coronavirus survive in the air and on surfaces?
SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19), can remain viable in aerosols for hours and on surfaces for days, according to a correspondence in the New England Journal of Medicine.
21 March 2020
What does endemic, pandemic and epidemic mean?
The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) has been spreading drastically from one country to another since December 2019. It has become one of the most rapidly spreading viruses in the world. The most uttered words nowadays are ‘endemic’, ‘pandemic’ and ‘epidemic’. All three terms are epidemiological terms that are commonly used in the study of disease on human beings.
21 March 2020
Understanding endometriosis
Endometriosis is one of the most serious and potentially progressive chronic diseases related to the uterine lining that women can face in their lifetime. It causes incapacitating pain, marital disharmony and infertility. Endometriosis affects an estimated 1 in 10 women and about 200 million women worldwide.
21 March 2020
Recent developments in the detection process and drug discovery
Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), generally known as 2019 novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV), may have been evolved from bats. A recent article published in the Nature Medicine journal used genomic data of novel coronavirus and predicted that the origin of coronavirus is natural and not laboratory-made.
21 March 2020
How the humble soap is the most effective against coronavirus
At a time when hand sanitisers are being hoarded in the panic over the coronavirus outbreak, the most effective tool to combat the virus -- the soap -- should not be overlooked.
16 March 2020
Over 20m patients with kidney diseases, less than 10% can afford treatment
A roundtable discussion titled ‘Kidney Health for All: Obstacle and Prevention’ was organised on March 12, 2020, to mark the World Kidney Day by the Kidney Awareness Monitoring and Prevention Society (KAMPS) in the capital, says a press release.
14 March 2020
Topical oxygen therapy for diabetic foot ulcers?
Hyperbaric oxygen therapy (i.e., breathing 100% oxygen under high atmospheric pressure) has shown mixed results in studies of diabetic foot ulcers. Now, in a multicentre U.S. and European trial, investigators examined whether topical oxygen promotes healing of such ulcers.
14 March 2020
A second patient has been cured of HIV!
A study of the second HIV patient to undergo successful stem cell transplantation from donors with a HIV-resistant gene, finds that there was no active viral infection in the patient’s blood 30 months after they stopped anti-retroviral therapy, according to a case report published in The Lancet HIV journal.
14 March 2020