Help desks at all hospitals to tackle Chikungunya

Health and Family Welfare Ministry directs all public hospitals and medical colleges across the country to open help desks to effectively tackle the already wide-spread Chikungunya menace, transmitted to humans by infected mosquitoes.
10 July 2017

‘1 in 11 affected by chikungunya’ is fake news, IEDCR clarifies

The Institute of Epidemiology, Disease Control and Research (IEDCR) has objected to the news about actual numbers of chikungunya affected people in Dhaka city.
10 July 2017

A new era for WHO with 5 top priorities

Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus is an Ethiopian politician, academic, and public health authority who is the Director-General of the World
8 July 2017

Gonorrhoea is evolving to resist antibiotics

Gonorrhoea is becoming harder and in some cases impossible to treat with antibiotics, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said in a press release.
8 July 2017

Tips: How to ameliorate joint pain induced by Chikungunya

Chikungunya fever caused by a virus is more frequent this year. Usually it is not a fatal disease. High fever along with joint pain makes
8 July 2017

Ramadan fasting vs post Ramadan feasting

Japanese scientist Yoshinori Ohsumi won the 2016 Nobel Prize establishing the truth that fasting is good for health. He coined the
8 July 2017

Family planning saves lives and transforms the community

World Population Day is observed around the world since 11 July, 1987 when the world’s population reached 5 billion. The world
8 July 2017

Five reasons to take a nap this summer

As long as it doesn't take more than 30 minutes to an hour, a nap is good for our health in many ways. It's perfectly natural for mammals and is even part of the work culture in China.
2 July 2017

Ice cream headaches

Ice cream headaches are brief, stabbing headaches that can happen when you eat, drink or inhale something cold. Digging into an ice
1 July 2017

Low-dose Aspirin helps prevent preterm preeclampsia

Use of low-dose aspirin lowers the risk for preeclampsia among women determined to be at high risk during first-trimester screening, according to a study presented at a meeting of the Fetal Medicine Foundation and published in the New England Journal of Medicine.
1 July 2017

Influenza in children

In the last two weeks parents are coming in the outpatient departments and in private chambers with their sick children having high fever, runny nose, headache, body ache, cough, sore throat, nasal stuffiness, decreased appetite and sometimes vomiting as well.
1 July 2017

Delivering confidence in healthcare

When you visit a doctor for your treatment or health checkup, the doctor usually says, “I am advising you some blood tests, please visit
1 July 2017

The doctor-patient relationship

The powerful communication between doctor-patient and doctor-attendant can overcome the stressful unpleasant emotions of diseases;
1 July 2017

A high IQ in childhood could lead to a longer life

A new study reports that children with a high IQ have a greater chance of being alive when they reach the age of 79.
30 June 2017

Child marriages will cost poor countries trillions of dollars by 2030

Child marriage will cost developing countries trillions of dollars in the next decade, seriously hampering global efforts to eradicate poverty, the World Bank said on Tuesday.
28 June 2017

Chikungunya vs Dengue

The two vector borne diseases Chikungunya and Dengue are reigning supreme with their bludgeon and blunderbuss across the
24 June 2017

Abuse of older people on the rise,1 in 6 affected

Around 1 in 6 older people experience some form of abuse, a figure higher than previously estimated and predicted to rise as
24 June 2017

United Hospital services will remain open during Eid holidays

During the upcoming long Eid holidays, United Hospital will remain open to continue to provide services to patients, says a press release.
24 June 2017

Early signals of knee arthritis

You might have been given a chance to know that whether your knee is going to be arthritic or not. Crepitus of knee could be an early
24 June 2017

Exercise may reduce fatigue for patients with chronic fatigue syndrome

A self-help approach to a graded exercise programme, supervised by a specialist physiotherapist, is safe and may reduce fatigue for
24 June 2017