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  Cervical cancer kills 14 women in Bangladesh daily

  Staff Correspondent | Updated at 12:34am on January 12, 2020

  Cervical cancer, though preventable, kills at least 14 women in Bangladesh daily. Cervical cancer is also the second highest form of cancer women in Bangladesh...

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  Multisectoral approach needed for achieving UHC: minister

  United News of Bangladesh . Dhaka | Updated at 01:17am on December 13, 2019

  Health minister Zahid Maleque underscored the need for a multisectoral approach for achieving the Universal Health Coverage. The minister came up with the remark while...

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  HC allows organ donation also to known people

  Staff Correspondent | Updated at 05:44pm on December 05, 2019

  The High Court Division in a verdict Thursday allowed the donation of human organs to  known persons also on emotional grounds. It directed the government...

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  Govt to provide free sanitary pads to poor women

  Staff Correspondent | Updated at 03:49pm on December 05, 2019

  Bangladesh government has decided to distribute free sanitary napkins among poor women and adolescent girls...

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  Vaping causes disease caused by exposure to industrial metals

  Agence France-Presse . Paris | Updated at 03:34pm on December 05, 2019

  Doctors treating a patient with a rare lung disease usually caused by exposure to industrial metals say it may instead be the first case linked...

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  Early treating cholesterol reduce heart attack risk: study

  Agence France-Presse . Paris | Updated at 03:58pm on December 04, 2019

  Treating younger people with high cholesterol levels may help reduce their risk of heart attack or stroke in later life, a study showed on Wednesday....

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  Take efforts to fight cervical cancer: Rwandan minister

  Xinhua . Kigali | Updated at 03:55pm on December 04, 2019

  Rwandan health minister Diane Gashumba on Tuesday called on all African countries to make joint efforts to fight against cervical cancer in the continent. There...

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  Canadian Medical Association study reveals danger of e-cigarettes

  Agence France-Presse . Washington | Updated at 03:18pm on November 21, 2019

  A 17-year-old Canadian nearly lost his lungs after five months of intensive vaping, but the ingredient suspected of doing the damage, diacetyl, is different from...

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  Homemade soup may fight malaria

  Agence-France-Presse. Paris | Updated at 10:32pm on November 19, 2019

  A new study suggests that certain homemade broths — made from chicken, beef or even just vegetables — might have properties that can help fight...

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  Bangladesh bans Ranitidine

  Manzur H Maswood | Updated at 07:20pm on November 14, 2019

  The government on Thursday permanently  banned production, marketing and sales of popular acidity drug ranitidine. Ranitidine with any brand name has been  banned for ever...