Health

Health and Family Welfare Minister Dr Samanta Lal Sen has said noted activist-economist Prof Anu Muhammad requires combined surgery. “After seeing the pictures sent by the doctors last night, I decided that Professor Anu Muhammad needs a combined operation for his injuries. For this reason, he has been brought from Dhaka Medical College Hospital to Sheikh Hasina Burn Institute,” he ...

Grindr, the world’s biggest dating app for the LGBT community, is being sued for allegedly sharing personal information such as people’s HIV status with third parties. According to the claim, lodged at the High Court in London, “covert tracking technology” was deployed, and highly sensitive information was illegally shared with advertisers. Law firm Austen Hays says there are more than ...

The deadline for the ongoing form fill-up process for the 2024 Higher Secondary Certificate (HSC) candidates has been extended to May 5 without any late fee charges. The Dhaka Education Board issued a notice on Sunday, stating that the deadline for filling out the forms for the HSC examination-2024 has been extended until May 5, without incurring any late fees. ...

Health and Family Welfare Minister Dr Samanta Lal Sen has said all the hospitals across the country are directed to be prepared in the awake of health risks associated with ongoing severe heat wave that sweeps over the country. Besides, the hospitals have been asked to admit only the patients with emergency needs. The minister told this while talking to ...

The author of the landmark Cass review into gender identity services for young people says she is “very angry” about “misinformation” spread about her work. Dr Hilary Cass’s review this month found “remarkably weak” evidence on treatments such as puberty blockers. The physician told the BBC some claims spread online about her evidence were “completely incorrect”. She said adults who ...

The World Health Organisation (WHO) announced Friday it had approved a new, simpler version of an existing oral cholera vaccine, whichshould help increase the number of available doses as global cases surge. The Euvichol-S vaccine is a simplified formulation of Euvichol-Plus, withfewer components — which should allow for larger volumes to be produced faster. It is produced by EuBiologics, and ...

The World Health Organisation (WHO) and around 500 experts have agreed for the first time on what it means for a disease to spread through the air, in an effort to avoid the confusion seen early in the Covid-19 pandemic that some scientists have said cost lives, reports Reuters. The Geneva-based UN health agency released a technical document on Thursday, ...

  Dr. Md. Mazibur Rahman has been appointed as a member (Biological Science) of the Bangladesh Atomic Energy Commission (BAEC). He is a prominent nuclear scientist who previously served as the Director of the International Affairs Division of the Commission and as the National Liaison Officer (NLO) to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). From 2017 to 2023, Dr. Rahman ...

Patients in the UK and European Union are facing shortages of vital medicines such as antibiotics and epilepsy medication, research published Thursday found. The report by Britain’s Nuffield Trust think-tank found the situation had become a “new normal” in the UK and was “also having a serious impact in EU countries”. Mark Dayan, Brexit programme lead at the Nuffield Trust ...

Women’s bodies have become political “battlegrounds”, putting at risk 30 years of progress on sexual and reproductive health for women and girls, the UN warned Wednesday. Though maternal mortality rates and unwanted pregnancy rates have been steadily falling, progress is now slowing or even flatlining on key measures, said the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), the UN’s sexual and reproductive ...