DHAKA: After further testing, a report of a MERS-CoV (Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus) case in Bangladesh four days ago appears to have been a false alarm, a World Health Organization (WHO) official revealed. "It appears to be negative," WHO spokesman Glenn Thomas told

DHAKA: Health Minister Mohammad Nasim on Monday said government will provide some six thousands new cars to the doctors to work in rural areas. The doctors will be appointed soon through BCS examination, Nasim added. The Health Minister made the disclosure in the inauguration program of

DHAKA: Progress on new research and treatments for dementia has been "achingly slow", an expert has said. Dr Dennis Gillings, the recently appointed global dementia envoy, said the pledge by G8 countries to develop a cure or treatment by 2025 was "impossible" without better incentives

DHAKA: A new research suggests that a dangerous strain of avian influenza, H7N9, that's causing severe illness and deaths in China may inhabit a small fraction of its potential range and appears at risk of spreading to other suitable areas of India, Bangladesh, Vietnam, Indonesia and the

DHAKA: The government is going to offer free bone marrow transplantation for the poor so that they can get better health service. Health Minister Mohammad Nasim came up with the assertion in a press briefing at the new building of Dhaka Medical College Hospital on Monday. The ruling

NARAYANGABJ: Some eight people have been infected by Anthrax disease after consuming beef at Araihazar upazila in the district on Thursday, said the authorities concerned. Araihazar Upazila Health Complex Residential Medical Officer Dr Habib Ismail Bhuiyan told banglanews: “Eight

OneA few years back I attended a meeting with the Head of the Department of General Practice in Melbourne’s Monash University. He asked me about the undergraduate medical training programme in Bangladesh. I went through the structure of the undergraduate training programme in various

DHAKA: Finance Minister AMA Muhith started presenting the annual budget of Tk 250,506 crore for fiscal year 2014-15 at the parliament on Thursday afternoon where he showed his concern in health section. A total of Tk 11,146 crore allocation has been proposed for the heath and welfare

DHAKA: British drug maker GlaxoSmithKline agreed to pay $105 million to settle allegations by 44 states and the District of Columbia of the United Sates on America that it promoted its medicines for unapproved uses. Several USA states attorneys general announced the settlement on

DHAKA: Health Minister Mohammad Nasim on Wednesday said it is great diplomatic success for Bangladesh to make the autism related health programmes mandatory in World Health Organization (WHO).   In this regard, a regulation was passed in WHO convention, he said. The health minister

DHAKA: Health and Family Welfare Minister Mohammad Nasim expressed his dissatisfaction regarding the budget allocation for the health sector in the upcoming fiscal year. The health minister, also ruling Awami League lawmaker, came up with the discontent while talking to journalists at

Dhaka: Cutting back on calories sounds good in theory, but not in practice. Here’s what science says about other tricks to bring weight down. No one needs to be told that if they eat less, they’ll probably weigh less. But if it were that simple, we wouldn’t be staring down a

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