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News Hour: Although global inequalities in survival from childhood leukaemia have narrowed, they still persist with five-year survival in some countries nearly twice as high as in others for children diagnosed during 2005-2009, according to a...

News Hour: More than one in 10 deaths worldwide (equivalent to 6.4 million deaths) are caused by smoking and half of these occur in just four countries – China, India, USA, and Russia, according to the...

News Hour: Structural racism, mass incarceration, and the widening income gap between rich and poor all feed growing health inequalities in the USA, which the health care system – by its very design and financing –...

News Hour: ITmedicus (a healthcare IT startup) recently launched an android app in Bangladesh named Patient Aid to help the patients & general people to get information about different health care services. Patient Aid is the...

News Hour: Women with breast cancer who sleep at least nine hours a night may be more likely to die from their tumors than patients who get just eight hours of rest, a recent study suggests....

News Hour: Men with prostate cancer that hasn’t spread to surrounding tissues are more likely to get radiation therapy if they’re diagnosed by doctors who own radiation machines, a Texas study suggests. Most men with prostate...

News Hour: Dr. Ashok Seth, India’s renowned cardiologist, and Chairman of Fortis Escorts Heart Institute and Chairman-Cardiology Council, Fortis Group of Hospitals, has achieved the prestigious Dr. BC Roy award for the year 2015, in the category...

News Hour: On behalf of the visit of Ms. Gerda Verburg, UN Assistant Secretary General and SUN Movement Coordinator and to improve SUN activities in Bangladesh, a meeting was held on April 03 2017 at 7.00...

News Hour: Experts at this year’s European Congress on Psychiatry in Florence, Italy (1-4 April) say that the only way to address the massive and growing mental health burden in countries of all incomes is to...

News Hour: Nigeria is launching a mass vaccination campaign as part of its emergency response to an outbreak of meningitis in its northwestern states, as the death toll climbed to 336, the Nigeria Centre for Disease...