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Study finds microplastics in 3 out of 4 toothpaste samples
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Public hospitals stretched far beyond capacity
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Hope grows as HIV care enters a new era
26 July 2026, 00:00 AM
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Experts call for stronger focus on prevention to build a healthier Bangladesh
26 July 2026, 00:00 AM
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Why obesity keeps rising despite our best efforts
26 July 2026, 00:00 AM
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OCD: Living with a mind that won’t switch off
26 July 2026, 00:00 AM
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When yesterday was normal
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World Hepatitis day 2026 / Time to break down the barriers to hepatitis care
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Apollo has launched holistic Joint Care & Wellness Center
Apollo Joint Care & Wellness Center started its journey under the supervision of country’s renowned knee surgeon Dr M Ali. The center is equipped to provide joint care and wellness services of global standard — says a press release.
30 June 2018, 18:00 PM
Talk of the day/night
In this day and age, most of us are stubbornly working and those who are not also working use our pick of social networking sites to entertain until the late night ! Doesn’t matter 2 or 3 am!
30 June 2018, 18:00 PM
Diabetes diagnoses confirmable from single-sample measurements
Measuring glycated hemoglobin and fasting glucose from the same blood sample can confirm diabetes, a study in the Annals of Internal Medicine suggests.
30 June 2018, 18:00 PM
Coding disease and death
There are few truer snapshots of a country’s wellbeing than its health statistics. While broad economic indicators such as Gross Domestic Product may skew impressions of individual prosperity, data on disease and death reveal how a population is truly faring.
30 June 2018, 18:00 PM
Remain independent in the activities of daily living
Activities of Daily Living (ADL) is very important for every person in their personal lives. There are three types of ADLs we do in our daily routine like i) self care, ii) productivity; and iii) leisure.
30 June 2018, 18:00 PM
Air pollution plays significant role in diabetes: Study
Air pollution caused one in seven new cases of diabetes in 2016, a US study says, which found even low levels raised the chances of developing the chronic disease.
30 June 2018, 07:01 AM
Guppy fish an effective dengue mosquito control method
Guppy fish can be one of the five most effective forms of dengue control, as these tiny fish can be placed in water vessels in and around homes, where they will eat the larvae of dengue-transmitting mosquitoes.
30 June 2018, 06:25 AM
Life expectancy at birth rises to 72yrs in 2017
Life expectancy at birth increased to 72 years last year in Bangladesh from 71.6 years in 2016, according to a survey of Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (BBS).
27 June 2018, 10:00 AM
1.45 million children’s lives saved by hib and pneumococcal vaccines since 2000
Childhood deaths from two leading bacterial causes of pneumonia and meningitis, pneumococcus and Hib,
23 June 2018, 18:00 PM
Modern blood cancer treatments require new approaches
Survival rates for blood cancers — including lymphoma, myeloma and some types of leukaemia — have dramatically increased over the past decade, due in great part to novel treatment approaches including molecularly-targeted therapies and immunotherapies.
23 June 2018, 18:00 PM
Job strain linked to increased risk of premature death for men with cardiometabolic disease
Having a demanding job and little control over it is associated with an increased risk of premature death in men with coronary heart disease, stroke, or diabetes,
23 June 2018, 18:00 PM
Apollo introduces structured bariatric & metabolic surgery
Obesity is recognised as a disease nowadays. It is not only because of overeating. The cause of obesity is multifactorial.
23 June 2018, 18:00 PM
Vitiligo and the way to recovery
Nowadays, vitiligo became a social problem in Bangladesh. Unexpectedly most people for the lack of health knowledge indicate this disorder as a contagious disease.
23 June 2018, 18:00 PM
Modi leads Yoga Day celebrations in India
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi leads thousands of people in marking the fourth edition of International Yoga Day celebrations by performing breathing exercises and ‘asanas.’
21 June 2018, 06:40 AM
Asia prepares to roll out mat for ‘International Yoga Day’
Millions of people around the world will roll out their yoga mats on June 21 to mark the fourth edition of International Yoga Day.
20 June 2018, 08:57 AM
Suicide 2nd highest cause of death in people aged 15-29
The recent deaths of fashion designer Kate Spade and celebrity chef Anthony Bourdain have cast a spotlight on a jarring spike in suicides worldwide and on the importance of confronting the issue.
14 June 2018, 06:12 AM
Modi accepts Virat's fitness challenge
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi accepts the fitness challenge given to him by Indian Captain Virat Kohli on his twitter account.
13 June 2018, 08:47 AM
Global warming will make veggies harder to find: Study
Global warming is expected to make vegetables significantly scarcer around the world, unless new growing practices and resilient crop varieties are adopted, researchers warn.
12 June 2018, 04:45 AM
ACS recommends colorectal cancer screening at age 45
Colorectal cancer screening should begin at age 45 for average-risk adults, according to new guidelines from the American Cancer Society (ACS) published in CA: A Cancer Journal for Clinicians.
9 June 2018, 18:00 PM
How to cut calories from your day
You probably know that you need to eat fewer calories to lose weight. But it can be hard to know how to make it happen every day. Here are a few ways for you to cut the calories.
9 June 2018, 18:00 PM