Over the past two weeks, the International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research in Bangladesh (icddr,b) has either admitted or treated more than 19,000 diarrhoea patients from different districts.

Scientists have created a genomic blueprint for Aeromonas bacteria, which can cause antibiotic-resistant diarrheal disease—with symptoms often misidentified as cholera—in humans and animals.

Researchers and public health specialists have appealed for strengthening old-age care and improving related research to control non-communicable diseases (NCDs) as a recent study finds that one out ...

Finance Minister AMA Muhith has lauded icddr,b's pioneering role in improving public health, especially of child and maternal health in Bangladesh and beyond, through its innovative solutions like ...

Under the protocol, Community Health Care Providers (CHCPs) at Community Clinics will conduct screening for kidney disease, hypertension, and diabetes and refer suspected cases ...

Bangladesh has launched a national treatment protocol for chronic kidney disease (CKD) in primary healthcare settings, ...

The study found that about 7% of ICU patients carried C. auris during their stay, with over a third acquiring it inside the ICU, suggesting most transmission occurs within hospitals.

Superbug infections in a Dhaka public hospital ICU hit 13 percent, far exceeding the 0.5 percent average in high-income countries ...

Referring to Clemens, the article, titled 'Infections are rising fast in Bangladesh, India and Pakistan', estimated that the number of COVID-19 cases in Dhaka may be as high as 750,000, despite the ...

icddr,b will receive $2 million in unrestricted funding, joining the list of 21 previous organizations that have received the Hilton Humanitarian Prize over the last two decades including most ...