DHAKA: A letter signed by more than 50 researchers and public health specialists is urging the World Health Organization (WHO) to "resist the urge to control and suppress e-cigarettes". The letter says the devices - which deliver nicotine in a vapour - could be a "significant health

DHAKA: Safe Motherhood Day is being celebrated across the country on Wednesday with the theme of “Let us ensure safe motherhood”. On the occasion of the National Safe Motherhood Day-2014 several organizations have chalked out various types of program as usual. Besides, on the

DHAKA: Italian scientists have designed a dialysis machine specifically to treat babies with kidney failure, which they say could improve treatment. Dialysis machines for adults can cause complications when used in very young children, the Lancet study says. The miniaturised machine has

MYMENSINGH: The students of local nursing colleges Wednesday staged demonstration and wear black badges protesting the attack on intern nurses of Sylhet MAG Osmani Medical College Hospital by the intern doctors. The agitating students also demanded the cancellation of registrations of

SYLHET: Intern nurses postponed their demonstrations at MAG Osmani Medical College Hospital after Tuesday evening. Confirming the matter to banglanews, Sylhet Nursing College principal Shilpi Chakrabarty said, “The probe committee began working from Tuesday afternoon; the demo has been

DHAKA: Intern nurses of Dhaka Nursing College Tuesday declared two-day programmes protesting attack on them by intern doctors at Sylhet MAG Osmani Hospital.  Bangladesh Nurses Association (BNA), Diploma Nurses Association and two other nurses association declared the programmes in the

DHAKA: Prostate cancer may be a sexually transmitted disease caused by a common yet often silent infection passed on during intercourse, scientists say, but experts say proof is still lacking. Although several cancers are caused by infections, Cancer Research UK says it is too early to

SYLHET: Nurses of the Sylhet M.A.G. Osmani Medical College Hospital (MAGO MCH) went on work abstention from Monday noon protesting an assault of fellow by intern doctors.  The announcement came from a human chain at 12:45pm in front of the hospital.  Earlier of the day, the intern

DHAKA: The food industry should be regulated like the tobacco industry as obesity poses a greater global health risk than cigarettes, say international groups. Consumers International and the World Obesity Federation are calling for the adoption of more stringent rules. These could

DHAKA: The percentage of people who smoke has been increased to 49—eight percent more than that of last year--while percentage of juvenile and youth smokers has increased to 69, 12-percent more from last year. Besides, some 97 percent smokers did not pay fines for smoking at the public

DHAKA: Here are a few items that you should stock up to reduce your blood pressure levels Fighting blood pressure and sugar levels while craving for food might be a difficult job. Here a few food items that can help you lower your blood pressure levels and keep it at a normal level.

DHAKA: More than 3 million people died from using alcohol in 2012, for reasons ranging from cancer to violence, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said on Monday, as it called on governments to do more to limit the damage. ‘More needs to be done to protect populations from the

DHAKA: The intern doctors of Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH) attacked journalists while were performing duties at emergency department division on Tuesday.      A few numbers of journalists were injured in the attack and the agitated doctors vandalized a camera of ATN News

DHAKA: The World Health Organization has declared the spread of polio is an international public health emergency. Outbreaks in Asia, Africa and Middle East are an ‘extraordinary event’ needing a co-ordinated ‘international response’, the agency said, reports the BBC. It

DHAKA: Institute of Epidemiology Disease Control and Research (IEDCR) said that it was not the harmful chemical mixing in the watermelons in Kushtia and Manikganj. IEDCR director Mahmudur Rahman came up with the observation while talking to banglanews on Monday. He said Microbiological

DHAKA: Bangladesh received WHO (World Health Organization) Certificate for a Polio free country, said a press release issued by external publicity wing of foreign ministry on Sunday. Deputy High Commissioner of Bangladesh to Mumbai, India, Samina Naz received this certificate from the

DHAKA: It’s no secret that some of our unhealthy habits are driving us early deaths, so researchers have calculated exactly how many lives can be saved if we start following the advice of public health officials.  With so many of the deaths each year from around the world directly

DHAKA: Laughter may have some of the same benefits as meditation   A good laugh now and then may give you a mental boost similar to meditation, suggests new research presented today at the Experimental Biology 2014 conference in San Diego.   “Joyful laughter immediately produces

DHAKA: Need an excuse to drink yet another cup of coffee today?  A new study suggests that increasing coffee consumption may decrease the risk for type-2 diabetes. The apparent relationship between coffee and type-2 diabetes is not new.  Previous studies have found that drinking a few

DHAKA: The International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease and Research, Bangladesh (icddr,b) fell in a complicated situation after it had to suspend using its own rice based oral saline following a formality complex.Patients and their relatives engaged in scuffles with the center’s doctors