HealthAbout 3,500 children with measles have been treated at Bangladesh Shishu Hospital and at least 97 to 98 have died; its director says about 90 per cent of those admitted are malnourished.
HealthCongenital hydrocephalus is a build-up of fluid in a baby's brain that begins before birth; a neurosurgeon at Bangladesh Medical University explains its causes, warning signs, diagnosis and treatment.
WHO figures show 202,000 suspected measles cases and 1,147 deaths in Bangladesh up to 9 October, 94 percent of them children under five; experts blame a faltering routine immunisation programme in 2025.
A national strategy targets a 50 per cent cut in high blood lead levels among children by 2030 and 95 per cent by 2035; a Dhaka seminar called for funding, laboratories and clean-up of contaminated sites.
Writing in Ajker Patrika, Faria Ejaz cites icddr,b estimates of 2,500 to 3,000 child deaths from rotavirus a year; 132 countries give the vaccine nationally, but in Bangladesh a dose costs Tk 2,993 privately and the state does not provide it.
HealthSelling infant formula without a doctor's prescription is an offence in Bangladesh, yet pharmacies, shops and online sellers hand it over on request; exclusive breastfeeding has fallen from 65 percent in 2018 to 57 percent.
OpinionIn a Dhaka Post column, Jahangirnagar University microbiology professor Dr Anwar Khasru Parvez explains dengue's changing symptoms, the return of measles and what to do, and not do, when fever strikes.
HealthOne child in 700 is born with a cleft lip or palate; plastic surgeon Dr Shahnur Sharmin sets out which operation comes at what age and how to feed and support a child before and after.
About 400,000 children and adolescents aged 0 to 19 develop cancer worldwide each year, the WHO estimates; recognising the signs early and starting treatment fast is what improves survival.
HealthAn ICCT study links vehicle exhaust to one in four new pollution-related asthma cases among Gurugram's children and teenagers in 2025, and finds most emissions come from newer cars.
At least 350,000 children in Bangladesh have cerebral palsy, yet the national neuroscience institute's outpatient department treated only 3,300 last year; a pilot in Korail slum is serving about 300 children.
HealthMany families give honey for coughs and colds, but Dr Ismat Zerin Surovi says children under 12 months must not have it, on its own or mixed into anything, because bacterial spores in honey can cause infant botulism.
HealthDr Sudipta Kumar Mukherjee of the National Institute of Neurosciences writes that puberty signs far too early are a hormonal problem that a small pituitary tumour can cause.
