Health

More than 3,500 Ebola cases have been recorded in several months in the Democratic Republic of Congo, topping the total from the deadliest outbreak between 2018 and 2020, official figures […]

The government has appointed Dhaka-8 lawmaker and Prime Minister’s Political Adviser Mirza Abbas Uddin Ahmed as the chairman of the Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH) Management Committee. The appointment was […]

    Bangladesh recorded its highest monthly dengue death toll of the year in July, with 36 fatalities and 9,206 infections, making it the worst month for the mosquito-borne disease […]

Doctors in Russia say the initial results from the country’s first personalized vaccine for melanoma, a type of skin cancer, are highly promising. Alexander Gintsburg, scientific director of the Gamaleya […]

Bangladesh recorded one more dengue-related death and 153 new infections in the 24 hours until Friday morning, according to the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS). The latest figures were […]

Bangladesh reported two more child deaths linked to measles and its symptoms, while 1,085 additional children were identified with the disease or suspected infections over the past 24 hours, according […]

Civil society leaders on Thursday voiced strong concern over the government’s decision to transfer responsibility for urban primary healthcare services from the Local Government Division to the Ministry of Health […]

Authorities have launched drug testing for public transport workers in Chuadanga as part of efforts to prevent road accidents and build a drug-free transport system. The initiative, organised by Chuadanga […]

District health authorities sealed a diagnostic centre and a private healthcare facility and fined three institutions a total of Tk 1.6 lakh during a crackdown on licensing violations, environmental non-compliance […]

A simple blood test could revolutionize the detection of tuberculosis (TB) and curtail the spread of one of the world’s top infectious-disease killers, according to new research presented on July […]