Years of negotiations culminated early Wednesday with countries agreeing the text of a landmark accord on how to tackle future pandemics, aimed at avoiding the mistakes made during the Covid-19 crisis...
A six-week media campaign styled 鈥楤an on Tobacco Advertisement, Promotion and Sponsorship (TAPS)鈥� begins on Wednesday to make people aware about the tobacco control law.
Nurullah Chaudhury has joined Bank Asia PLC as additional managing director and chief wholesale banking officer on Monday...
City Bank has announced the appointment of Mesbaul Asif Siddiqui, DMD, as its new head of Wholesale Banking. Prior to this role, he served as the chief risk officer of the bank...
The head of the World Health Organization insisted on Monday it was 鈥榥ow or never鈥� to strike a landmark global accord on tackling future pandemics, despite the United States withdrawing from negotiations.
The World Health Organisation launched on Tuesday a new platform providing cost-free cancer medicines for thousands of children living in low- and middle-income countries, in a bid to improve lagging survival rates.
Survivors and families of the victims of February 25鈥�26, 2009 rebellion in the erstwhile Bangladesh Rifles on Wednesday at a press conference in Dhaka said that it would be unjust if all imprisoned and death row convicts were released on a wholesale basis as all BDR soldiers were not innocent...
An attack on the main hospital in El-Fasher, a besieged town in western Sudan, has killed 70 people and wounded 19 others, the World Health Organisation chief said on Sunday....
At least $10 billion will likely be needed to rebuild Gaza鈥檚 devastated health system over the next five to seven years, according an initial World Health Organisation assessment Thursday.
The WHO chief called Monday for the immediate release of Hossam Abu Safiyeh, director of Gaza鈥檚 Kamal Adwan Hospital, who is being held by Israel鈥檚 military following a major raid on the facility.
US producer inflation climbed in November, government data showed Thursday, logging its biggest year-on-year increase since February 2023 as food costs jumped...
The World Health Organisation voiced alarm Thursday at recent attacks in Sudan鈥檚 war-ravaged Darfur region, which it said had killed dozens of people and injured many more.
Discussants at a workshop on Tuesday said as cigarette prices did not increase in alignment with the rate of inflation, this harmful product had been becoming increasingly affordable in Bangladesh.
Countries trying to negotiate a global agreement on handling future pandemics began an extra week of talks on Monday, with the WHO chief insisting the end was in sight.
The filing of flawed and wholesale cases over the murders of and attacks on protesters during the student-people uprising is likely to hinder justice and pave the way for perpetrators to escape punishment.
CONSIDERING the growing inefficacies of antibiotics, a set of empirical studies has claimed that we are sliding back to the 鈥榩re-antibiotic era,鈥� highlighting the present and future crises borne out of antibiotic resistance. In today鈥檚 world, particularly in the global health discourse, antibiotic resistance has turned out to be a focal point of discussion due to its ominous public health concern. This is evident from seven...
FIFA will give $50 million to the WHO, WTO and UNHCR as part of its Qatar World Cup legacy fund, football's global governing body announced on Wednesday.
US wholesale prices rose slightly in October, according to government data published Thursday, as an increase in services inflation pushed up the overall figure...
Youths in Europe, Canada and Central Asia feel less family support and more school pressure than before, the World Health Organisation warned Wednesday, urging countries to improve teens鈥� social environments...
The World Health Organisation said Friday it was deeply concerned about Israeli attacks hitting healthcare workers and facilities in Lebanon, in its war against Hezbollah.
The government of Bangladesh does not want to work with the regional director of the World Health Organization and ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina鈥檚 daughter Saima Wazed...
The UN health agency said on Friday that it had approved the use of the first diagnostic test for mpox, a key tool in countries battling outbreaks...
The World Health Organisation announced Thursday a global plan to battle dengue and other diseases carried by mosquitos as they spread faster and further amid climate change...
The WHO said on Friday it had for the first time prequalified an mpox vaccine 鈥� a move expected to speed up access to the jabs to fight an epidemic raging in Africa.
POLLUTION, especially air pollution, has for long been a major cause for concern for public health. Yet, the authorities have consistently remained nonchalant about the issue. While about 200,000 premature deaths are attributed to air pollution every year, the Air Quality Life Index says that pollution shortens the life expectancy of an average Bangladeshi by...
Students under the platform of Student Movement Against Discrimination on Wednesday urged all people and students to refrain from filing cases in a wholesale manner to harass innocent people...
The Bangladesh Nationalist Party on Wednesday asked leaders and activists of the party not to file cases in a wholesale manner relating to the recent student-people uprising that ensured fall of former prime minister Sheikh Hasina-led Awami League government...
Bangladesh is the world鈥檚 most polluted country and fine particulate air pollution (PM2.5) shortens the average Bangladeshi resident鈥檚 life expectancy by 4.8 years, relative to what it would be if the World Health Organisation guideline of 5 碌g/m鲁 was met, says a new global report released on Wednesday...
The World Health Organization on Friday urged manufacturers to ramp up production of mpox vaccines to rein in the spread of a more dangerous strain of the virus.
Pakistan health officials announced on Friday their first case of the deadly mpox virus this year.