Fill vacant posts, intensify family planning, JS body directs health ministry
23 September 2026
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Healthcare
11 more die with measles-like symptoms in Bangladesh
23 September 2026
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Disease
Bangladesh’s dengue death toll this year crosses 200 as 6 more die
23 September 2026
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Disease
Health centre’s generator out of order for 20 years
23 September 2026
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Healthcare
A new chance at life, closer to home
23 September 2026
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Healthcare
2 more die with measles-like symptoms, combined toll reaches 1,065
22 September 2026
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Disease
Dengue claims 5 more lives, record 1,872 hospitalised in a day
22 September 2026
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Disease
A Tk 50 lakh liver transplant abroad seemed out of reach. Josna Begum got one in Bangladesh
22 September 2026
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Healthcare
Kulaura hospital's generator out of order for 20 years
22 September 2026
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Healthcare
BMU performs six liver transplants in one year
22 September 2026
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Healthcare
Rationing ventilators during the COVID-19 epidemic
As the COVID-19 epidemic exploded, many hospitals began creating triage policies to prepare for the possibility of having to ration ventilators.
16 May 2020
COPD and smoking associated with higher COVID-19 mortality
Current smokers and people with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) have an increased risk of severe complications and higher
16 May 2020
Genome sequencing of Coronavirus from Bangladesh - what’s next?
A team of Bangladeshi scientists at the Child Health Research Foundation (CHRF) has successfully managed to complete the genome sequencing of SARS-CoV-2 i.e. Coronavirus in Bangladesh very recently.
16 May 2020
COVID-19 dilemma: lives or livelihood?
‘Lives or livelihood?’ is the conflict haunting nations worldwide and Bangladesh is no exception. Whether to impose stricter restrictions to contain the virus or to relax such measures to earn livelihood has become the prime dilemma in the combat against the novel coronavirus.
16 May 2020
Highest number of new Covid-19 cases in a day reported
Fourteen people died with coronavirus infections in the last 24 hours, the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) said today.
10 May 2020
Convalescent plasma therapy available in Dhaka to combat COVID-19
Evercare Hospital Dhaka has conducted the first ever convalescent plasma (CP) therapy in Bangladesh recently, says a press release. Successfully conducted in many developed countries recently, this therapy is a promising research treatment to combat the global pandemic of coronavirus disease (COVID-19).
9 May 2020
Vigorous activity or sedentary behaviour is not associated with risk for knee osteoarthritis
Patients and some clinicians still are concerned that physical activity, particularly vigorous physical activity, might be associated with excess risk for knee osteoarthritis (OA), despite considerable evidence to the contrary.
9 May 2020
Billions worldwide living with herpes
About half a billion people worldwide are living with genital herpes, and several billion have an oral herpes infection, new estimates show, highlighting the need to improve awareness and scale up services to prevent and treat herpes.
9 May 2020
Treating cancer during COVID-19
People with cancer appear to be at increased risk of Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) and their outcomes are worse than those of individuals without cancer. This is especially valid for cancer patients with other diseases like cardiovascular disease, diabetes, kidney disease etc.
9 May 2020
COVID-19: money, mind and beyond
While having no promising success so far against the Coronavirus disease (COVID-19), social distancing and quarantine are the only preventive measures advised by experts around the world.
9 May 2020
Covid-19 forces new direction in education: Foreign universities and their Bangladeshi students connect online
Bangladeshi students of international universities stuck in their home country during pandemic find ways to continue their courses.
9 May 2020
Doctor who treated first US Covid patient fears second wave
The doctor who treated the first Covid-19 patient in the United States has he fears a second outbreak of the disease when lockdown measures are lifted.
5 May 2020
The intelligent knife: new approach to cancer surgery
Scientists have developed an ‘intelligent knife’ that can tell surgeons immediately whether the tissue they are cutting is cancerous or not. An international team speculated that the metabolic status of tissue, as assessed by mass spectrometry, might aid in this process.
2 May 2020
Role of Zinc and Selenium in boosting immunity
Almost all nutrients in the diet play a crucial role in maintaining an optimal immune response, and both insufficient and excessive intakes can have negative consequences on the immune status and susceptibility to a variety of pathogens. Among the most important ones are zinc and selenium.
2 May 2020
Key to controlling the spread of COVID-19
Contact tracing to rapidly isolate people who could be infected with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) reduced the length of time people were infectious in the community over 4 weeks (from 14 January to 12 February 2020) in Shenzhen, China, according to a study published in The Lancet Infectious Diseases journal.
2 May 2020
How COVID-19 patients can avoid ICU management
We know that intensive care unit (ICU) is for critically ill patients. We also know that we have a scarcity of ICU beds as well as specialists in critical care management in Bangladesh.
2 May 2020
The COVID-19 pandemic must not divert attention
If resources are diverted away from child and adolescent tuberculosis (TB) programmes in order to fight COVID-19, the consequences for the
2 May 2020
10 prison guards on hospital duty test Covid-19 positive
At least 10 prison guards of Dhaka Central Jail have tested Covid-19 positive till yesterday, prison officials said.
29 April 2020
Are you immune to COVID-19 after you have had it?
Based on data from other viruses and coronavirus strains, we know that people make antibodies 7-10 days after infection and that, depending
25 April 2020
Global leaders pledge universal access to new vaccines, tests & treatment
Heads of state and global health leaders made an unprecedented commitment to work together to accelerate the development and production of new vaccines, tests and treatments for COVID-19 and assure equitable access worldwide.
25 April 2020