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Doctors warn of global C-section epidemic
Agence France-Presse . Paris | Updated at 12:00am on October 13, 2018
Worldwide Caesarean section use has nearly doubled in two decades and has reached ‘epidemic’ proportions in some countries, doctors warned Friday, highlighting a huge gap...
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Pvt health facilities getting away with anomalies
Manzur H Maswood | Updated at 11:38pm on August 11, 2018
Minimal action from time to time and lax monitoring by the authorities concerned did little or nothing to stop the unbridled malpractices by private hospitals,...
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First malaria drug in 60 years given approval
BBC | Updated at 12:10pm on July 23, 2018
A drug to treat malaria - the first such pill to get approval in 60 years - has been given the green light by authorities...
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Therap Asia holds conference on digital disability documentation
Staff Correspondent | Updated at 05:52pm on April 09, 2018
Therap Asia hosted its annual Dhaka conference themed on ‘Using Documentation to Improve Quality of Care and Support for a Better Future’ on...
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United Hospital fined Tk 20 lakh for using outdated reagent, medicines
Staff Correspondent | Updated at 06:31pm on March 21, 2018
A mobile court fined United Hospital Tk 20 lakh on Wednesday for using outdated reagent in the laboratory and selling outdated medicines in its medicine...
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High levels of cellphone radiation linked to tumours in male rats: US study
Reuters | Updated at 12:35pm on February 03, 2018
Male rats exposed to very high levels of the kind of radiation emitted by cellphones developed tumours in the tissues around their hearts, according to...
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Cancer blood test finds eight kinds of tumors: study
Agence France-Presse . Miami | Updated at 12:05am on January 20, 2018
A new blood test for cancer has shown promise toward detecting eight different kinds of tumors before they have spread elsewhere in the body, offering...
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Pollution killed 9m people in 2015
Agence France-Presse . Paris | Updated at 12:05am on October 21, 2017
Pollution claimed the lives of nine million people in 2015, one in every six deaths that year, according to a report published on Friday. Almost...
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Health sector allocation goes down
Staff Correspondent | Updated at 07:32pm on June 01, 2017
Finance minister AMA Muhith on Thursday proposed 4.04 percent of the total outlay of the proposed budget Tk400,266 crore for 2017-18 fiscal year...
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Rules of memory ‘beautifully’ rewritten
BBC | Updated at 02:19pm on April 09, 2017
What really happens when we make and store memories has been unravelled in a discovery that surprised even the scientists who...
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