First global recommendations issued on quitting smoking with type 2 diabetes
2 September 2026
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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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Late-life high blood pressure may harm the brain: Study
A new study reveals that high blood pressure late in life might harm the brain.
12 July 2018
Antidepressant use and long-term weight gain
Antidepressants are associated with weight gain in the short term, but little is known about their long-term effects.
7 July 2018
A new tertiary level hospital in Dhaka city with promises
Impulse Hospital, a latest generation private sector hospital, has recently embarked on a joint venture health initiative, with a famous expert team of physicians of Singapore, to render world-class healthcare services to Bangladeshi patients.
7 July 2018
Novel HIV vaccine candidate found safe and responsive
New research published in The Lancet shows that an experimental HIV-1 vaccine regimen is well-tolerated and generated comparable and robust immune responses against HIV in healthy adults and rhesus monkeys.
7 July 2018
Drug that can save thousands of women’s lives
A new formulation of a drug to prevent excessive bleeding following childbirth could save thousands of women’s lives in low- and lower-middle-income countries,
7 July 2018
The dangers of being ‘taken for granted’
A recent study in England found that married people were 14% more likely to survive after a heart attack and they were able to leave the hospital two days’ sooner than single people having a heart attack.
7 July 2018
A call for renewed action to end child marriage by 2030
Girls Not Brides — the global partnership to end child marriage, hosted the world’s biggest ever global meeting on ending child marriage
30 June 2018
Apollo has launched holistic Joint Care & Wellness Center
Apollo Joint Care & Wellness Center started its journey under the supervision of country’s renowned knee surgeon Dr M Ali. The center is equipped to provide joint care and wellness services of global standard — says a press release.
30 June 2018
Talk of the day/night
In this day and age, most of us are stubbornly working and those who are not also working use our pick of social networking sites to entertain until the late night ! Doesn’t matter 2 or 3 am!
30 June 2018
Diabetes diagnoses confirmable from single-sample measurements
Measuring glycated hemoglobin and fasting glucose from the same blood sample can confirm diabetes, a study in the Annals of Internal Medicine suggests.
30 June 2018
Coding disease and death
There are few truer snapshots of a country’s wellbeing than its health statistics. While broad economic indicators such as Gross Domestic Product may skew impressions of individual prosperity, data on disease and death reveal how a population is truly faring.
30 June 2018
Remain independent in the activities of daily living
Activities of Daily Living (ADL) is very important for every person in their personal lives. There are three types of ADLs we do in our daily routine like i) self care, ii) productivity; and iii) leisure.
30 June 2018
Air pollution plays significant role in diabetes: Study
Air pollution caused one in seven new cases of diabetes in 2016, a US study says, which found even low levels raised the chances of developing the chronic disease.
30 June 2018
Guppy fish an effective dengue mosquito control method
Guppy fish can be one of the five most effective forms of dengue control, as these tiny fish can be placed in water vessels in and around homes, where they will eat the larvae of dengue-transmitting mosquitoes.
30 June 2018
Life expectancy at birth rises to 72yrs in 2017
Life expectancy at birth increased to 72 years last year in Bangladesh from 71.6 years in 2016, according to a survey of Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (BBS).
27 June 2018
1.45 million children’s lives saved by hib and pneumococcal vaccines since 2000
Childhood deaths from two leading bacterial causes of pneumonia and meningitis, pneumococcus and Hib,
23 June 2018
Modern blood cancer treatments require new approaches
Survival rates for blood cancers — including lymphoma, myeloma and some types of leukaemia — have dramatically increased over the past decade, due in great part to novel treatment approaches including molecularly-targeted therapies and immunotherapies.
23 June 2018
Job strain linked to increased risk of premature death for men with cardiometabolic disease
Having a demanding job and little control over it is associated with an increased risk of premature death in men with coronary heart disease, stroke, or diabetes,
23 June 2018
Apollo introduces structured bariatric & metabolic surgery
Obesity is recognised as a disease nowadays. It is not only because of overeating. The cause of obesity is multifactorial.
23 June 2018
Vitiligo and the way to recovery
Nowadays, vitiligo became a social problem in Bangladesh. Unexpectedly most people for the lack of health knowledge indicate this disorder as a contagious disease.
23 June 2018