Novo Nordisk announced that the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved Rybelsus® (oral semaglutide tablets) on Friday September 20, 2019, as an adjunct to diet and exercise to improve glycaemic control in adults with type 2 diabetes mellitus.

Cystic fibrosis (CF) is a hereditary deadly disease affecting mainly the lungs. It is an inborn disease and the chance is more in children when the parents are cousins.

More than 500 people have been sickened in an outbreak of vaping-related illness in the United States, health authorities say, as Los Angeles became the latest city to take steps to ban flavored e-cigarettes.

The complex ecosystem of the human gut influences our health for life, and new research shows it may be crucially shaped by the way we come into the world.

A new study suggests when a pregnant woman breathes in air pollution, it can travel beyond her lungs to the placenta that guards her fetus.

A person in Oregon, United States died from severe lung illness in July after using an e-cigarette or other vaping device,

United States Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) guideline update reaffirms that universal maternal testing and neonatal immunisation is effective against hepatitis B infection.

Short stature is associated with a higher risk of type 2 diabetes, according to a new study in Diabetologia (the journal of the European Association for the Study of Diabetes). Tall stature is associated with a lower risk, with each 10 cm difference in height associated with a 41% decreased risk of diabetes in men and a 33% decreased risk in women.

More than 5 million families across Africa, Asia, and Latin America and the Caribbean spend over 40% of their non-food household expenses on maternal health services every year, says UNICEF’s new analysis on maternal health released in the Women Deliver 2019 conference in Canada.

The number of countries with national suicide prevention strategies has increased in the five years since the publication of World

Much is still to be desired from the efforts of local governments to stop the dengue epidemic as the number of cases has risen to nearly 250,000 nationwide with more than 1,000 dead, over a third them children.

Two dengue patients including a member of village police die at Mymensingh Medical College Hospital(MMCH) and Faridpur Medical College Hospital(FMCH).

A roundtable discussion was held in the capital recently where the focus was to capture the readiness of the enabling environment for programme roll-out and to identify the challenges and opportunities across sectors for inter-sectoral collaboration and programme convergence for the implementation of the second Bangladesh National Plan of Action for Nutrition (NPAN2), says a press release.

Health services must integrate a stronger focus on ensuring optimum nutrition at each stage of a person’s life, according to a new report released by the World Health Organisation (WHO). It is estimated that the right investment in nutrition could save 3.7 million lives by 2025.

Cardiovascular Disease (CVD) remains the leading cause of mortality among middle aged adults globally, accounting for 40% of all deaths, but this is no longer the case in high-income countries (HIC), where cancer is now responsible for twice as many deaths as CVD, according to a new report from the PURE study published in The Lancet.

Babies are born with very gentle and fragile skin. New parents are often concerned about their baby’s skin, which is not surprising.

A 6 months old baby girl suddenly became very restless and fussy. Her mother noticed that she had profuse sweating for last few hours. She was not consoled by any means. The mother tried to feed her and play with her, but she was not able to make the child comfortable.

A sixth grader from Manikganj dies last night after being diagnosed with dengue.

One more patient has died of dengue, mosquito-borne disease, at Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH), taking the countrywide death toll to 128.

A migraine can cause severe throbbing pain or a pulsing sensation, usually on one side of the head. In most cases they hamper and alter our lifestyle to a great extent. Here are some migraine hacks that you may find helpful.