Don’t turn away measles patients
24 April 2026, 00:00 AM
Disease
7 districts in line for new medical colleges: Health minister
22 April 2026, 19:38 PM
Health
PM acknowledges measles testing kit shortage, says vaccines weren’t imported for years
22 April 2026, 16:57 PM
Parliament
Shaheed M Mansur Ali Medical College renamed Sirajganj Medical College
21 April 2026, 21:22 PM
Health
Measles death toll rises to 38 as one more dies: DGHS
21 April 2026, 18:06 PM
Health
RMCH interns on a 24-hour work abstention, leaving patients to suffer
21 April 2026, 16:02 PM
Bangladesh
Measles vaccination drive kicks off in Chattogram
20 April 2026, 15:13 PM
Bangladesh
Govt launches nationwide measles-rubella vaccination drive
20 April 2026, 10:38 AM
Bangladesh
IFRC, BDRCS launch six-month emergency response amid measles surge
19 April 2026, 21:25 PM
Health
Measles death toll rises to 36
19 April 2026, 16:25 PM
Disease
How will Bangladesh fare with the Coronavirus Pandemic?
I am a Bangladeshi-American live in Maryland, USA for 20 years. Maryland is only about 200 miles away from New York city, the epicenter of Coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic.
16 June 2020, 18:00 PM
YPF and Platform underscores investment in home grown research for better Covid-19 response
On June 14th, Youth Policy Forum (YPF) and Platform of Medical & Dental Society collaboratively organised a webinar titled “New Frontiers in Research: Vaccination, Genome Sequencing, and Data-Driven Health Surveillance”, focusing on extensive clinical research strategies in Bangladesh along with abundant data-generation and maintenance of its sovereignty.
15 June 2020, 14:15 PM
Is herd immunity on COVID-19 hard to achieve?
Herd immunity is a concept based on the body’s immune resistance to the spread of a contagious disease within a population.
13 June 2020, 18:00 PM
COVID-19 questions relating to consumers
Through illness, community and national lockdowns, and economic downturn, the COVID-19 pandemic has turned the lives upside down of billions of people globally. Here are answers to some questions about the COVID-19 pandemic related to consumers.
13 June 2020, 18:00 PM
Boosting immunity to protect from COVID-19
Self-defense is the best defense. To protect ourselves from any disease or infection we need to increase our immunity. How can we do that? It is relatively simple and inexpensive. What we need is our desire and a bit of modification of our lifestyle and food habit.
13 June 2020, 18:00 PM
Vitamin C and COVID-19 infection
Vitamin C, also called ascorbic acid, is an essential micronutrient for humans. Deficiency of this vitamin results in impaired immunity and higher susceptibility to infections.
13 June 2020, 18:00 PM
Discharged COVID-19 patients without symptoms often have positive SARS-CoV-2 PCR tests
After observing that some COVID-19 patients who had recovered and had been discharged were readmitted with positive polymerase chain reaction (PCR) tests, Chinese investigators retested 60 COVID-19 patients who had been discharged to in-home quarantine after hospitalisation.
13 June 2020, 18:00 PM
How a vaccine made of mosquito spit could help stop the next epidemic
Five years ago, in an office complex with a giant sculpture of a mosquito just northwest of Phnom Penh, Jessica Manning struck on a novel idea. Rather than spend more years in what felt like a futile search for a malaria vaccine, she would take on all mosquito-borne pathogens at once.
12 June 2020, 10:16 AM
Tk 100 crore health research fund proposed
Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal today proposed to form an Integrated Health-Science Research and Development Fund’ of Tk 100 crore to finance the development of research in health-education and science and technology.
11 June 2020, 12:26 PM
Tk 29,247 crore proposed for health services, health education, family welfare
Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal today proposed to allocate Tk 29,247 crore for the Health Services Division and Health Education and Family Welfare Division in the 2020-21 fiscal year.
11 June 2020, 11:31 AM
Women Deliver mobilizes Young Leaders to build a gender-equal future
In claiming lives and wreaking economic havoc throughout Asia-Pacific, the COVID-19 pandemic places an especially heavy burden on girls and women for reasons including their more limited access to potentially life-saving information, the stress resulting from increases in unpaid care and domestic work, and the loss of income from informal employment.
10 June 2020, 18:00 PM
COVID-19: Leading us to think differently about Public Health education
The corona virus (COVID-19) outbreak has led to the pandemic which has initiated activities and widespread discussion on the clinical aspect but more on its prevention all over the world and advises, suggestions and guidance of thousands of people, including doctors, public health workers, politicians, economists and sociologists are going on every day.
8 June 2020, 18:00 PM
Disrupted sleep increases the risk of cardiovascular disease by promoting inflammation
Sleep disruption has been shown to be associated with an increased risk of atherosclerosis, but the mechanism has been unclear.
6 June 2020, 18:00 PM
Breastfeeding helps counteracts BMI gain
For people whose genes put them at risk of becoming obese, exclusive breastfeeding as a baby can help ward off weight gain later in life. These findings from a new study were published recently in PLOS Genetics.
6 June 2020, 18:00 PM
Glucose levels linked to maternal mortality, even in non-diabetic women
An elevated pre-pregnancy HbA1c — which measures average blood glucose concentration — is associated with a higher risk of adverse pregnancy outcomes even in women without known diabetes, according to a new study published recently in PLOS Medicine.
6 June 2020, 18:00 PM
Coronavirus infection in children
The coronavirus outbreak has become a global problem, creating panic and concern all over the world. The pandemic has restricted movement,
6 June 2020, 18:00 PM
Favipiravir: A light of hope for COVID-19
The antiviral drug Favipiravir, better known as Avigan, is being trialed as a treatment for the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19). Avigan is the brand name of the drug Favipiravir, it was developed by the Japanese Fujifilm Toyama Chemical Company, has emerged as a potential drug to treat patients infected with the deadly novel coronavirus.
6 June 2020, 18:00 PM
Mental health of medical personnel working with COVID-19 patients
Medical personnel treating coronavirus cases in China have higher rates of anxiety and other mental health symptoms than the general population, according to a new study published recently in the open-access journal PLOS ONE.
30 May 2020, 18:00 PM
Novel coronavirus mutation and genome sequencing
The recent pandemic caused by the novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) has caused the death of about 365,000 people throughout the world so far.
30 May 2020, 18:00 PM
The future of novel Coronavirus pandemic
A virus is a submicroscopic infectious agent that needs living cells like humans, animals, plants and even other microorganisms including bacteria for budding. Viruses are much smaller than bacteria which contain DNA or RNA genome.
30 May 2020, 18:00 PM