Health

As health officials investigate more than 30 cases of infant botulism linked to ByHeart baby formula since August, parents who say their children were sickened with the same illness months before the current outbreak are demanding answers, too. California public health officials confirmed late Friday that six babies in that state who consumed ByHeart formula were treated for botulism between ...

Details of a new UK clinical trial to assess the risks and benefits of puberty-blocking drugs in children who question their gender have been announced. It follows the banning of the drugs for gender treatment last year after a major review raised concerns about the lack of clinical evidence over their safety for under-18s. Researchers from King’s College London say ...

The rate of caesarean section deliveries in Bangladesh has risen to 51.8 per cent this year (2025), up sharply from 36 per cent in 2019, according to the latest Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey (MICS) of the Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (BBS). The report’s preliminary findings, released Sunday at a national dissemination event at the Bangladesh-China Friendship Conference Centre, show that ...

Health Adviser Nurjahan Begum visited Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH) on Friday to check on those injured in the powerful earthquake that struck various parts of the country earlier in the day. She arrived at the hospital’s emergency department around 1:45 PM and toured several wards to observe the condition of the patients. During the visit, Nurjahan spoke with relatives ...

The World Health Organization (WHO) said on Wednesday that it aims to vaccinate more than 40,000 children against various diseases in Gaza, as it takes advantage of the recent ceasefire. The WHO and its partners already vaccinated over 10,000 children under the age of three in the first eight days of an initial phase of the campaign launched on 9 ...

Six more people died of dengue while 788 patients were hospitalised across the country in the past 24 hours, raising the total fatalities from the mosquito-borne disease to 349 this year. According to the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS)., three deaths occurred in Rajshahi Division, two in Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC), and one in Dhaka South City Corporation ...

Ethiopia has confirmed an outbreak of the deadly Marburg virus in the south of the country, the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) said on Saturday. The Marburg virus is one of the deadliest known pathogens. Like Ebola, it causes severe bleeding, fever, vomiting and diarrhoea and has a 21-day incubation period. Also like Ebola, it is ...

Ethiopia has confirmed its first outbreak of Marburg virus disease, after nine cases were reported in the south of the country. World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus on Friday commended the Ethiopian Health Ministry and other health agencies for their “rapid and transparent response to the outbreak”. “This fast action demonstrates the seriousness of the country’s commitment to ...

Several recent initiatives to facilitate Bangladeshi patients’ treatment in China have opened a new horizon in relations between the two countries, paving the way for a more intensified economic partnership. China extended a hand of friendship when India halted the issuing of visas to Bangladeshis after 5 August 2024, leaving many patients in distress. Seizing this opportunity, China strategically stepped ...

Countries agreed Friday to phase out the use of mercury-based dental amalgams in tooth fillings by 2034, in a move that will change dentistry around the world. At a conference in Geneva, signatories to a treaty aimed at protecting human health and the environment from mercury pollution called time on mercury amalgams. Nations agreed “to end the use of dental ...