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28 admitted to hospital with Dengue in a day
July 31, 2000
Dhaka (UNB) - Twenty-eight people with dengue fever were admitted to Dhaka Medical College Hospital yesterday (Sunday).
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Seminar and exhibition on Dengue
July 31, 2000
Dhaka (UNB)- A seminar on "Dengue Hemorrhagic Fever" will be held at 4pm at the seminar room of Zoology Department of Dhaka University today (Monday).
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Dengue carrier mosquito found in DU
July 31, 2000
Dhaka (UNB) - Larvae of aedes mosquito were found at one spot on the Dhaka University campus during survey conducted by Dhaka City Corporation as part of its current drive against the menace.
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Press conference on "Dengue Fever"
July 30, 2000
Dhaka (UNB)- Dismissing the necessity of antibody test for identification of dengue fever, the medical experts yesterday urged the people not to undertake the test as it is not necessary for treatment but an economic burden.
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Panic makes one more prone to Dengue
July 30, 2000
Dhaka (UNB)- None should be panicked as it reduces the resistance power of human body.
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Drive against dengue at schools and colleges
July 30, 2000
Dhaka (UNB) - Students and teachers in city schools and colleges have worked together to clean the educational premises in a drive against Aedes mosquito that spread dengue fever.
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Drug abuse high among the activists of student politics
July 29, 2000
Dhaka (UNB) - Amid an increasing trend of Phensidyl addiction, a survey has found that some 7.46 percent male and 1.79 percent female students of higher educational institutions abuse it in Dhaka city.
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Pain in very young changes forever how pain is felt, study finds
July 29, 2000
WASHINGTON (AP) - For years, doctors operated on premature babies
without anesthesia in the belief that even if the infants felt the
pain, they would not remember it. New research with rats suggests
that the body does remember the pain and is forever changed.
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Guatemalan health minister blasted for not reacting sooner to control meningitis outbreak
July 29, 2000
GUATEMALA CITY (AP) - Guatemala's congress Thursday blasted the
country's top health official for not reacting sooner to contain a
meningitis outbreak at a public hospital that killed 15 newborns.
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"No body necessarily dies in dengue" says WHO
July 28, 2000
Dhaka (UNB)- Allaying rising fears of dengue fever the World Health Organization (WHO) yesterday said nobody should die from this disease but stressed the need for mass awareness and proper management of the disease.
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Government denies that Dengue is an epidemic
July 28, 2000
Dhaka (UNB) - The government yesterday denied that Dengue fever has assumed epidemic proportions and urged the people not to be panicked as the fever can be prevented and managed.
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First international dental conference
July 28, 2000
Dhaka (UNB) - The 2nd National and 1st International Dental Conference of Bangladesh Private Dental Surgeons Association will be held here in February next year.
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Mayor visits Dengue patients
July 28, 2000
Dhaka (UNB) - Dhaka City Mayor Mohammad Hanif yesterday visited the BIRDEM Hospital in the city to see the dengue patients.
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Australasia launches 6-year program against AIDS
July 27, 2000
BANGKOK (AP) - Australian Foreign Minister Alexander
Downer announced the launch Wednesday of a six-year, dlrs 200 million international program to battle HIV/AIDS.
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Rodent-borne disease in bourn of Europe
July 27, 2000
GENEVA (AP) - A surgeon who was working in Sierra Leone has been
hospitalized in the Netherlands with Lassa fever, the World Health
Organization said Wednesday.
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Abundance of adulterated edible oil
July 25, 2000
Dhaka (UNB) - An import restricted US-brand edible oil comes into the country as relief item for security personnel. But the vegetable oil is allegedly being adulterated and sold in city markets posing a serious threat to public health.
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Drive to destroy disease-carrying mosquitoes
July 25, 2000
Dhaka (UNB) - The growing panic over dengue fever has prompted Dhaka City Corporation (DCC) to intensify its drive in its all 90 wards to kill the disease-carrying aedes mosquitoes.
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Clinton-Chretien think GMOs aren't dangerous
July 24, 2000
NAGO (AP) - Discussions among the leaders of the Group
of Eight failed to resolve differences over the risks of genetically
modified foods, French President Jacques Chirac said Sunday.
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Ultra-Violet water disinfections system launched
July 24, 2000
Dhaka (UNB) - A new technology has been evolved for producing arsenic free water at a cost of one taka per 1000 litres.
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International project on reproductive health
July 23, 2000
Dhaka (UNB) - Partners in Population and Development launches a project titled "South-to-South Initiatives: An alternative approach to sustained improvements in reproductive health" at the auditorium of BRAC Centre here on August 2.
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Hospital's foundation laid by Prime Minister
July 23, 2000
Gopalganj (UNB) - Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday (Saturday) laid the foundation of a 250-bed General Hospital here with a vow to reach the medical facilities to the doorsteps of rural people.
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India's experts to debate how to slow down population explosion
July 22, 2000
NEW DELHI (AP) - India's billionth baby, Aastha Arora, has
never had a quiet moment since she was born May 11.
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Prime minister opens new medical college
July 21, 2000
Dhaka (UNB)- Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday urged doctors to upgrade the quality of treatment to restore trust and confidence of patients in medicare at home.
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Workshop on radiation and radiotherapy
July 19, 2000
Dhaka (UNB) – A 5-day national workshop on Radiation Protection and Assurance on Radiotherapy began at the Atomic Energy Commission auditorium here yesterday (Tuesday).
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Mosquito borne fever Dengue spread all over
July 18, 2000
Dhaka (UNB)- As spread of Dengue fever in the city stirred alarms, the government took some steps to control the scourge and called for people not to panic.
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US disease control center Director arrives
July 17, 2000
Dhaka (UNB) - Dr Jeffrey P Koplan, Director of the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), arrives here today (Monday) as part of a global campaign for polio eradication.
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High Court cracks down on government to clean up filthy, holy river
July 15, 2000
NEW DELHI (AP) - The elephant twirled its trunk, enjoying
its morning bath. Children frolicked in the water as women in saris
prayed. Two men laughed as they paddled by in the slow, dark
current.
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AIDS experts feel the need
to declare HIV causes
July 15, 2000
DURBAN (AP) - David Ho, one of the world's leading
AIDS researchers, stood in front of thousands of experts at the
International AIDS Conference and made a statement few would have
thought necessary a few months ago: "HIV is the cause of AIDS."
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U.S. military admits dumping toxic chemical into river
July 15, 2000
SEOUL (AP) - The U.S. military on Friday admitted
dumping a hazardous chemical into Seoul's Han River as civic
activists demanded a stricter environmental monitoring on American
military facilities.
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Claudia Schiffer calls on Sheikh Hasina
July 14, 2000
Dhaka (UNB) - UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador Claudia Schiffer made a courtesy call on Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina at her office yesterday (Thursday).
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African children orphaned aided by AIDS
July 14, 2000
DURBAN (AP) - Nearly 28 million children in Africa will have lost at least one of their parents to AIDS by the year 2010, causing a social nightmare for the region's countries for
decades, according to a report released Thursday.
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Renaissance man of anatomy's namesake surgeon
July 14, 2000
RICHMOND (AP) - A woman had her gall bladder removed by a robot one day after the da Vinci Surgical System was approved by federal regulators.
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Accused doctors suspended
July 14, 2000
Dhaka (UNB) - Three doctors were suspended yesterday for their negligence in the treatment of Julfikar Ali Bhutto MP who died at the National Institute of Cardio-Vascular Diseases on May 29.
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Claudia's visit to Bangladesh positive
July 13, 2000
Dhaka (UNB) - Young Bangladeshis lack the knowledge of how to protect thems
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After playing God, comes playing doctor
July 13, 2000
WASHINGTON (AP) - Now that the human genome is almost completely
mapped, research organizations are starting a major push to find the
genes that cause human disease.
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Isn't the situation hopeless?
July 13, 2000
DURBAN, South Africa (AP) - Scattered successes around the world
show that government prevention programs can slow and reverse the
AIDS epidemic, even in the poorest areas, researchers said
Wednesday.
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Claudia Schiffer arrives for Polio immunization
July 11, 2000
Dhamrai (Dhaka) (UNB)- World-renowned supermodel
Claudia Schiffer kicked off her global mission on immunization of children of deadly diseases from Bangladesh on two grounds.
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Arsenic detected in water of more areas
July 11, 2000
Netrakona (UNB) - Arsenic content, beyond permissible limit, has been detected in tube well waters in 10 upazilas of the district.
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5
Million Americans Risk AIDS
July 10, 2000
DURBAN, South Africa
(AP) — Roughly 5 million Americans have sex and drug habits that put them
at a high risk of catching AIDS, according to new U.S. figures, and experts
fear an upsurge of the disease after a decade of stability.
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Aid
by AIDS Conference to them who call it Ukimwi
July
9, 2000
JOHANNESBURG,
South Africa (AP) — With the AIDS pandemic sweeping across Africa,
thousands of the world's top experts on the disease are gathering for the
13th International AIDS Conference — the first time the meeting has been
held on the continent most ravaged by the disease.
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Abortion pill replacing contraceptive pill?
July 9, 2000
VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) - A controversial European pill
used to end pregnancies is being administered in Canada for the
first time in clinical trials started last week by a Vancouver
doctor.
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