Digital health app by Banglalink
Banglalink, one of the leading digital communication service providers has brought a digital health app named “Banglalink Health Zone” for the first time in Bangladesh. This app will enable users to enjoy personalised health service, from the comfort of their own homes. Banglalink users will be able to store their comprehensive health data with the app’s Advanced Technology Dashboard. The users can arrange their health-related information and can share the information with physician or care provider through their mobile.
By subscribing to “Banglalink Health Zone” users will receive all health contents sourced from 
Free health service for GP customers
Grameenphone (GP) and Telenor Health launched “Tonic,” a new digital health service for consumers in Bangladesh on 5th of June, 2016 at a local city hotel. Tonic was launched in the presence of the Health Minister, the Honorable Mohammad Nasim MP, BTRC Chairman Dr. Shahjahan Mahmood and partners from across the healthcare sector.
Tonic was the result of an extensive research and development process that included input from global health experts, local medical practitioners, and everyday people, Tonic aims to be relevant to a broad cross section of Bangladeshi society and cover a range of wellness and health needs.
Tonic members receive four benefits: “Tonic Jibon” offers tips and information via SMS, web, and Facebook to help members live on a healthy life by eating wel...
Shasthonet- a social media dedicated to health service
The number of social media platforms are mushrooming everyday as the time ticks on. With the digital age in full swing, a world class social media has been developed and launched in Bangladesh and it is the about to make our life easier. Welcome to the world of Shasthonet.
While asking about the site created by healthcare ideas Limited, the software manager of Shasthonet, Bikash Roy explained, “Shasthonet has been developed under the social networking structure to connect Doctors, Potential Patients, Pharmacies under one common
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Zika in BD confirmed
Bangladesh confirmed on Tuesday its first case of the Zika virus in an old sample of blood from a 67-year old man who had not been overseas, health ministry officials said.
The man lives in southeastern port city of Chittagong and was well, junior health minister Zahid Maleque told a news conference. None of his relatives had tested positive, he said.
Mahmudur Rahman, director of the ministry’s Institute of Epidemiology, Disease Control and Research, said the man had never traveled outside Bangladesh.
“The virus was foun...
“The virus was foun...
Medics work to save poor children in Bangladesh
Standing in the hospital corridors with other parents too anxious for news of their children to sleep or sit down, Abdul Rajjak’s face crumples with relief when he finds out his son has survived life-saving but high-risk open heart surgery.
Rajjak tells a story all too familiar in Bangladesh, where congenital heart disease is common. Even in the capital, Dhaka, there is a shortage of doctors for paediatric surgical cases.
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In Bangladesh, where many poor mothers don’t receive scans, the need for pa...
In Bangladesh, where many poor mothers don’t receive scans, the need for pa...
Lipid-based supplement to improve infant health
Fortified, lipid- or fat-based nutritional supplements provided during pregnancy to women in Bangladesh reduced stunting, abnormally low weight and small head size in babies born to these women, reports a team of University of California, Davis, researchers who led the international project.
The lipid-based supplement was more effective in promoting healthy birth outcomes for infants than just iron and folic acid prenatal supplements, commonly recommended for pregnant women.
Findings from the study, which tracked the health of more than 3,000 participating women and their infants, 
