DHAKA: Giving mums and dads the skills to become “super parents” can dramatically improve their child’s autism, a long-term study has shown. In the training, parents watched films of themselves playing with their child while a therapist gave precise tips for helping their child

DHAKA: A study suggests there are parallels between the way youngsters turn into hackers and how youths become addicted to drugs and alcohol. The report was written for the EU’s law enforcement agency Europol. It says that readily available online tools and tutorials make it easy

DHAKA: A baby girl from Lewisville, Texas, has been ‘born’ twice after she was taken out of her mother's womb for 20 minutes for life-saving surgery. At 16 weeks pregnant, Margaret Hawkins Boemer discovered her daughter, Lynlee Hope, had a tumor on her spine. The mass, known

DHAKA: At least 27.4 percent women of our country are suffering from breast cancer, according to the cancer registration report 2014 by National Institute of Cancer Research & Hospital. NICRH associate professor and also epidemiology department chief associate professor Dr Habibullah

TB remains a serious problem across the WHO South-East Asia Region, and requires the fullest attention and strongest commitment of governments, donors and civil society leaders to be effectively addressed. As outlined in WHO’s new global report on TB, a number of countries in the

DHAKA: Zika infections are “highly likely” to keep spreading across Asia, the World Health Organization (WHO) has warned. Hundreds of cases of the virus have been reported in Singapore while two cases of Zika-linked microcephaly have already been confirmed in Thailand. The

DHAKA: An immunotherapy drug has been described as a potential “game-changer” in promising results presented at the European Cancer Congress. In a study of head and neck cancer, more patients taking nivolumab survived for longer compared with those who were treated with

DHAKA: Working night shifts has “little or no effect” on a woman’s risk of developing breast cancer, new research suggests. In 2007, a World Health Organization committee said shift work ‘probably’ had a link to breast cancer, based on studies of animals and people. But

DHAKA: “Rapunzel, Rapunzel, let down your hair” is the famous fairytale cry. But real life moved from Grimm to gruesome for one 38-year-old woman in the US who had a giant 15cm hairball in her stomach. She is one of only a handful of documented cases of “Rapunzel syndrome”,

DHAKA: A Bangladesh-India joint conference on eye care ‘Collaborate-2016’ was held in city on September 30. Eye specialists, doctors and delegates from medical colleges and eye care hospitals from India and Bangladesh participated in the conference. Bangladesh information

DHAKA: A 10th of children have a “monkey-like” immune system that stops them developing Aids, a study suggests. The study, in Science Translational Medicine, found the children’s immune systems were “keeping calm”, which prevented them being wiped out. An untreated HIV

DHAKA: A new WHO (World Health Organisation) air quality model confirms that 92 percent of the world’s population lives in places where air quality levels exceed WHO limits. Information is presented via interactive maps, highlighting areas within countries that exceed WHO limits,

DHAKA: Facebook’s founder Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan have pledged $3bn to fund medical research over the next decade. At a press conference in San Francisco, they said their ultimate goal was to “cure, prevent or manage all diseases by the end of the century”,

DHAKA: The US senate has failed to pass a bill to aid fighting Zika virus outbreak for the third time. Senate Democrats blocked the $1.1bn bill after Republicans sought to stop funding for pro-abortion group Planned Parenthood, reports the BBC. Lawmakers hoped that the issue will be

DHAKA: The Appellate Division of Supreme Court (SC) permitted the doctors to appeal against the High Court (HC) ruling that termed their appointment at Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University (BSMMU) illegal. The 111 doctors got appointed during BNP-led government’s tenure. A

DHAKA: At least six Bangladeshis have been found positive with the Zika virus in Singapore. Bangladesh High Commissioner to Singapore Mahbub Uz Zaman confirmed the matter on Thursday (September 1). Ministry of Health in Singapore informed that the six Bangladeshi nationals tested

DHAKA: The government has appointed Dr. Abul Klam Azad as new director general (DG) at Directorate General Health service (DGHS). A notification, signed by health ministry deputy secretary Fazlul Haque, was issued in this regard on Sunday (August 21). The appointment came as per

DHAKA: Mutual Trust Bank (MTB) will provide Tk 1.7-crore to set up a woman’s training centre cum health centre at Char Patila of Char Fassion in Bhola. An agreement was inked between Mutual Trust Bank (MTB) Ltd. and Management and Resources Development Initiative (MRDI), as part of

DHAKA: Viruses are more dangerous when they infect their victims in the morning, a University of Cambridge study suggests. The findings, published in PNAS, showed viruses were 10 times more successful if the infection started in the morning, reports the BBC. The animal studies also

DHAKA: An early study in the Lancet Respiratory Medicine journal suggested that an experimental pill could help adults with severe asthma. In the small trial, patients who were given the drug, known as Fevipiprant, had less inflammation in their airways. And some patients with