Air pollution is not just a little haze in the distance. Air pollution outdoors and inside our homes claims an estimated 6.5 million lives every year. It impacts our health through long-term exposure and causes near-term climate change, threatening the lives of future generations.

New data presented at this year’s International Early Psychosis Association (IEPA) meeting in Milan, Italy (20-22 October) adds to

Drug abuse and addiction is a social problem and affects people from all walks of life and all socioeconomic statuses.

We are often very much interested to supplementary vitamins to boost our immune system. But the natural sources are always the best way to do that. Following are some food that may do this.

Danish company Novo Nordisk has launched a campaign in Bangladesh by engaging Bangladesh Cricket Team Captain Mashrafe Bin Mortaza as the brand ambassador to create awareness on the prevention, detection, management and control of diabetes.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina seeks doctors' sincere support to implement the 15-year Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) to make the country's healthcare system befitting to time.

A year-long training programme to help parents communicate with their very young autistic children reduced symptoms of the disorder up to six years later, according to a follow-up analysis.

Drinking two or more sweetened drinks per day could greatly increase your risk of diabetes, according to new research. In fact, it

Bangladesh Technical Education Board (BTEB) Medical Technologist Society recently organised a press conference in the national

Bangladesh Society of Medicine organised a Scientific Seminar on Hypertension at Dhaka Club on October 10, 2016 — says a

Nationwide deworming week (October 22-27, 2016) has started from yesterday running in all primary schools. A massive

The furor in the media and the uproar of the masses against the recent issuing of death certificates on two living neonates by

The BRAC health programme addresses the health and nutritional status of women and children in Bangladesh and covers 120

What you are experiencing is called a vasovagal response, a reflex that occurs when your body overreacts to certain triggers, like blood or

The World Health Organisation (WHO) and partners are calling for an end to the discrimination, harassment and lack of respect that

Researchers have developed a blood test that may help detect heart disease in asymptomatic individuals by measuring the immune

The Global Action Plan for the Prevention and Control of Noncommunicable Diseases 2013–2020 proposes that “as appropriate to national

Global health organisation PATH and a local NGO SERAC-Bangladesh recently joined together to highlight the fact that many

The facade of the world's tallest building, the Burj Khalifa in the Gulf emirate of Dubai, lights up in pink to raise awareness and funds for breast cancer.

The spike in the disease, breast cancer, has been attributed to a number of factors such as the lack of screening programmes, population density, scarcity of resources, and cultural restrictions and limitations.