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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  United Hospital fined Tk 20 lakh for using outdated reagent, medicines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  A mobile court fined United Hospital Tk 20 lakh on Wednesday for using outdated reagent in the laboratory and selling outdated medicines in its medicine...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...