Health

Chinese authorities in Yunnan Province have pledged to strengthen healthcare cooperation with Bangladesh, offering enhanced support for Bangladeshi patients seeking treatment in China. The assurance came during a visit by a 23-member delegation of Bangladeshi journalists to First Affiliated Hospital of Kunming Medical University on Thursday. The team, led by Abul Kalam Azad Majumder, Deputy Press Secretary to the Chief ...

Actress Dur-e-Fishan Saleem has spoken out about body image, self-confidence, and the pressures of showbiz, saying that fitness doesn’t mean being thin—it means feeling healthy and confident. In a recent interview, she said she is happy with her natural body type and has never felt the need to change herself for the industry. Dur-e-Fishan, who is known for her fuller ...

Three more people have died from dengue in the past 24 hours, raising the national death toll from the disease to 92 this year, the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) said on Wednesday. The latest fatalities were reported in Chattogram Division (outside city corporation), Rajshahi Division (outside city corporation), and Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC). In the same period, ...

The government has decided to reduce the prices of 10 types of coronary stents produced by three international companies for cardiac treatment in Bangladesh. The move will lower the cost from two producers by amounts ranging from Tk 3,000 to a maximum of Tk 88,000. When blood flow through the artery is blocked, a stent or coronary stent is placed ...

The UK government is set to announce plans to evacuate hundreds of children from Gaza for medical treatment, reports Arab News. Up to 300 children will be given free healthcare on the National Health Service, in a scheme running “in parallel” with the group Project Pure Hope, a source told The Times. So far, just three children from Gaza have ...

Bangladesh has recorded one new death from COVID-19 in the past 24 hours, raising the total number of fatalities this year to 31, according to Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) The deceased, a woman aged between 61 and 70, had been under treatment at a government hospital in Dhaka Division. No new cases were detected during this period, despite ...

In a rampant digital-first world where screens dominate from day to night, they have taken up the lion’s share of our attention. With so much concentrated focus on the screens, eye health is slowly weakening. From leisure to essentials, everything now lives in our phones. At a time like this, our eye health is more vulnerable than ever. Whether it ...

One hundred and thirty-eight more new dengue cases were reported in the 24 hours leading up to Friday morning, bringing the total number of cases to 21, 118 this year. According to the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS), new cases were reported as follows: 49 in Barishal Division (Out of CC), 17 in Chattogram Division (Out of CC), 10 ...

The human body is equipped with a remarkable level of redundancy, with many organs having more capacity than we actually need to survive. This built-in backup system means that if one part fails, another often steps in to carry the load — a marvel of nature often overlooked. A recent article published by Harvard Health highlights how evolutionary advantages have ...

A staggering 28.9 per cent of children in Bangladesh, nearly three out of every ten, are affected by multidimensional poverty, a rate significantly higher than the 21.4 per cent for adults, according to the country’s first-ever national Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) released on Thursday. The report, a collaborative effort by UNICEF, the General Economics Department (GED) of the National Planning ...