Health

Doctors have called off their ‘complete shutdown’ following the assurance of health adviser Nurjahan Begum that action will be taken against the accused, who assaulted of doctors at Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH), within 24 hours. The adviser gave the assurance during a briefing at the administrative building at DMCH on Sunday afternoon. The protesting doctors, following the assurance, called ...

Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH) doctors are observing work abstention for assaulting three of their colleagues after the death of a private university student. They started the strike from Sunday morning. As a result, emergency services of the DMCH are suspended, causing suffering of the patients. Ahsanul Islam Dipto, 24, a civil engineering student at the Bangladesh University of Business ...

It’s easy to feel overwhelmed by the idea of changing your lifestyle drastically for the sake of your cardiac health. However, the path to improved cardiac wellbeing is often made up of tiny, consistent steps. Incorporating simple and impactful habits into your day-to-day life reduces the risk of heart disease by many folds. From nourishing your body with healthy food ...

Vehicular movement on Dhaka-Tangail highway remained suspended for four hours on Saturday as the workers of two pharmaceutical companies staged demonstration on the highway in Kaliakoir upazila of Gazipur district to press-home their 21-point demand. Hundreds of passengers traveling on the highway suffered as vehicular movement was disrupted following the protest. The workers of Apex Pharmaceuticals Ltd and Square Pharmaceuticals ...

Over two million children in eastern Bangladesh are at risk as floods sweep through homes, schools and villages, UNICEF has warned, reports UNB. In all, these floods, the worst in eastern Bangladesh in 34 years, have affected 5.6 million people. Major rivers in the southeast are overflowing due to unprecedented monsoon rains. As a result, more than 52 people have ...

The mother of a teenage girl who died of an allergic reaction after drinking a Costa hot chocolate has told the BBC she lies awake at night thinking about whether she could have prevented her death. Hannah Jacobs, 13, had a severe dairy allergy and died within hours of taking a sip of the drink on 8 February last year. ...

Israel has agreed to a series of three-day “humanitarian pauses” in Gaza to allow health officials to administer polio vaccinations to children in the territory, the World Health Organization said Thursday. “The way we discussed and agreed, the campaign will start on the first of September, in central Gaza, for three days, and there will be a humanitarian pause during ...

Professor Dr Nazmul Hossain has been appointed as the acting director general of the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS). He is the professor of Department of Cardiac Surgery at Chattogram Medical College Hospital (CMCH). The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare issued a notification in this regard on Wednesday (August 28).

People taking semaglutide, the popular medication for diabetes and weight loss, are more likely to report having thoughts of suicide compared with those taking other drugs, according to a new study of an international drug safety database. But the finding is the latest see-saw of scientific evidence on the risk of depression and suicide tied to the popular medications — ...

A recent study has revealed alarming levels of harmful bacteria in popular street foods sold across Dhaka, although most people consuming these street foods are not falling ill. The study was led by Dr Md Latiful Bari, chief scientist and head of the Food, Nutrition and Agriculture Research Laboratory at the Centre for Advanced Research in Sciences of the University ...