DHAKA: Some people with high levels of supposedly "good" cholesterol are at much greater risk of heart disease, a study suggests. A bloodstream tussle takes place between "bad" cholesterol dumping fatty material in the arteries and good cholesterol taking it away. But a Cambridge

DHAKA: Three members of a family, who are suffering from massive bark-like warts on their hands and feet, a disease known as epidermodysplasia verruciformis, were admitted to Dhaka Medical College and Hospital (DMCH) on Wednesday (March 9). The patients were identified as Based Ali,

KHULNA: After getting assurance from local lawmaker and administration, doctors postponed their strike in Khulna for four days. Hundreds of doctors, the lifeline of the medical services at government, private hospitals and clinics in Khulna, went on strike on March 3 protesting assault

DHAKA: Around two crore people in Bangladesh are kidney patients. Among them, only ten percent people can take medical treatment due to its higher expenditure. Speakers made this disclosure at a roundtable discussion held at National Press Club in city on Saturday (March 5). Kidney

DHAKA: The effects of eating peanut products as a baby to avoid the risk of allergy have been backed up by new research.In 2015, a study claimed early exposure to peanut products could cut the risk of allergy by 80%.Now researchers say "long-lasting" allergy protection can be sustained -

DHAKA: New research gives the first evidence that Zika virus might cause a severe neurological disorder called Guillain-Barré syndrome.The study was carried out using blood samples from 42 patients who became ill in a previous outbreak.The Lancet authors say they developed the

DHAKA: Children Health Desks will be setup in every Thana with cooperation of the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) to ensure the security of children across the country.The pilot study of the project is now going on.UNICEF's Chief of Child Protection Rose-Anne Papavero made the

DHAKA: Bangladesh Ship Aichi Medical Group and Japan Ship Health Care Holdings signed an agreement to build a 600-bed specialized hospital in city’s Uttara area where 20 percent bed will be allotted for deprived people with free treatment.Ship Aichi Medical Services Limited president Dr

DHAKA: Speakers at a discussion said about 63 percent of people die due to non-communicable diseases across the country every year and this rate will reach upto 70 percent by the next 10 years. Kidney Awareness Monitoring and Prevention Society (KAMPS), a voluntary healthcare organization

DHAKA: ‘Tree Man’ Abul Bajnadar will have the first operation at Dhaka Medical College and Hospital (DMCH) on Saturday (February 20) to remove massive bark-like warts on his hands and feet.Confirming the matter, DMCH burn unit coordinator Dr Samanta Lal Sen told banglanews on Friday

DHAKA: Excessive growth of bacteria in the small intestine could be damaging for the gut of young children, leading to stunting, scientists from ICDDR,B, the University of Virginia and Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) have discovered.One possible factor contributing to stunting is

DHAKA: A therapy that retrains the body’s immune system to fight cancer has provoked excitement after more than 90% of terminally ill patients reportedly went into remission. White blood cells were taken from patients with leukaemia, modified in the lab and then put back, reports the

DHAKA: A yellow fever outbreak in Angola has killed 51 people, in the first epidemic of the disease to hit the country in 30 years.Official statistics showed on Monday, Al Jazeera publishes this report on Tuesday.A total of 241 people were now infected, the southern African country’s

DHAKA: Scientists have detected a number of drugs which could help protect against Alzheimer's disease, acting like statins for the brain.In experiments on worms, University of Cambridge researchers identified drugs which prevented the very first step towards brain cell death.They now

DHAKA: A high profile 10-member delegation from the public health ministry of Thailand is set to arrive in Dhaka on Wednesday (February 10) evening to join the first meeting of Bangladesh-Thailand Joint Working Group on health services to be held in Dhaka on February 11.Thailand’s

DHAKA: Biologists say they have solved the riddle of how a tiny bacterium senses light and moves towards it: the entire organism acts like an eyeball.In a single-celled pond slime, they observed how incoming rays are bent by the bug’s spherical surface and focused in a spot on the far

DHAKA: A rare case of the Zika virus being transmitted through sex, not a mosquito bite, has been reported in the US.A patient infected in Dallas, Texas, is likely to have been infected by sexual contact, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) told the BBC.The person had not travelled to

DHAKA: A disease linked to the Zika virus in Latin America poses a global public health emergency requiring a united response, says the World Health Organization (WHO).The WHO alert puts Zika in the same category of concern as Ebola, reports the BBC.This categorization means research and

DHAKA: Bangladesh has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with India for cooperation in pharmaceuticals on the sidelines of the 8th Asia Pharma Expo in city on Thursday (January 28).The MoU was signed between the Indian Pharmaceutical Machinery Manufacturers’ Association (IPMMA)

DHAKA: Strains of the HIV virus are becoming resistant to an antiretroviral drug commonly used to prevent and fight it, research has suggested.HIV was resistant to the drug Tenofovir in 60% of cases in several African countries, according to the study, covering the period from 1998 to