The pandemic has had a "substantial" impact on childhood cancer care worldwide, with a marked rise in the number of patients abandoning treatment altogether, new research showed Thursday.

One in four of the world’s population will suffer from hearing problems by 2050, the World Health Organization warned Tuesday, calling for extra investment in prevention and treatment.

Lowering diastolic blood pressure (DBP) to under 60 mm Hg is associated with increased risk for adverse cardiovascular (CV) events, according to a JAMA Network Open study. Current U.S. guidelines recommend a blood pressure target of under 130/80 mm Hg but do not specify a lower DBP limit.

A 3-month interval between doses of the Oxford COVID-19 vaccine results in higher vaccine efficacy than a 6-week interval, with the first dose offering 76% protection in the 3 months between doses.

Lead is a silent killer. The World Health Organisation (WHO) has identified lead as one of the leading chemicals of concern to public health, and the Institute of Health Metrics and Evaluation estimates that lead exposure caused nearly one million global deaths and accounts for more than 20 million years of healthy life lost in 2019.

To understand how COVID-19 vaccines work, it helps to first look at how our bodies fight illness. When germs, such as the virus that causes COVID-19, invade our bodies, they attack and multiply. This invasion, called an infection, is what causes illness. Our immune system uses several tools to fight infection.

The following are some of the vitamins and supplements that can help fight inflammation naturally and keep your immune system strong.

Wania Maryam Laibah Ahmad was born in 2018 in Alabama, USA. She is the daughter of Dr Ahmad Salam and I (Dr Ruksana Amin Eva), both pursuing our doctoral studies in the USA. We noticed that Wania is a curious toddler, active, and she loves to play in the water.

A Supreme Court lawyer today filed a writ petition with the High Court, seeking its directive on the government to arrange necessary number of medical equipment at public hospitals across the country in order to accurately diagnose diseases and to provide proper treatment to the patients.

Injectable semaglutide, approved to treat type 2 diabetes, is efficacious as an adjunct to diet and exercise for weight loss in nondiabetic overweight or obese adults, according to an industry-conducted trial published in the New England Journal of Medicine.

Addressing avoidable vision loss with existing, highly cost-effective treatments, and improving inclusion of people living with permanent vision loss in

New research demonstrates the ability of dogs to detect aggressive prostate cancer from urine samples and suggests that an artificial neural network

Having new COVID-19 vaccines will mean little if people around the world are unable to get vaccinated in a timely manner. Vaccines have to be

The world is in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic which has spread rapidly across the world. The pandemic is already having a serious impact

Russia said today its scientists had detected the first case of transmission of the H5N8 strain of avian flu to humans and had alerted the World Health Organization.

The World Health Organization has alerted six countries to watch out for potential Ebola cases after fresh outbreaks in Guinea and Democratic Republic of Congo, a spokeswoman said today.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina says several countries have expressed interest to provide Covid-19 vaccines to Bangladesh, and the country will receive those to ensure vaccination up to rural level.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today laid foundation stone of Kumudini International Institute of Medical Sciences and Cancer Research (KIIMS CaRe) in Narayanganj town today.

A survey conducted by the University of Maryland, in partnership with Facebook shows that in Bangladesh over 64% people that responded to the survey intend to take the COVID-19 vaccine -- says a press release.

A bicycle rally was jointly organised by Eminence Associates for Social Development in collaboration with Bangladesh Non-Communicable Disease Forum (BNCDF) in front of the National Parliament House recently to celebrate World Cancer Day 2021 and create public awareness about cancer, says a press release.