Dramatic improvements are needed in ensuring access to clean water and sanitation worldwide, the World Health Organization says, warning that nearly two billion people currently use faecal-contaminated water.

US Health officials want to find out how a dead bat in a “deteriorated condition” ended up inside a packaged salad sold at a grocery store in Florida.

Heart is a muscle pump having four chambers (upper two and lower two). There may be any unusual holes in the

Small and medium farms produce more than half of the food globally, and produce the vast majority of food and

People who are diagnosed with a chronic physical health problem such as diabetes are 3 times more likely to be

Since the inception of Scaling Up Nutrition (SUN) in April 2010, Bangladesh has made tangible progress in bringing

Patient Aid is the first ever app in Bangladesh which will provide all kinds of health-care related information in an

Newer cancer drugs that enlist the body's immune system are improving the odds of survival.

The High Court upholds its earlier order that directed the government to stop production and selling of penicillin and cephalosporin-group and anti-cancer drugs of 23 companies.

Dr Nuruzzaman Khokon Memorial Trust organised a free medical camp in Narsingdi, Bangladesh recently at the premises of Satirpara K K

The World Health Organisation (WHO) recently launched a global initiative to reduce severe, avoidable medication-associated harm in

A system that decodes brain signals and transmits them to sensors in the arm has allowed a man paralysed from the shoulders down to

The cabinet division of the Government of Bangladesh has bifurcated the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare into two separate

It is the World Health Day on April 7; the day marks the anniversary of the founding of the World Health Organisation (WHO). This

China, South Korea and Thailand are few Asian countries where a high number of people are using contraceptives. In China, there is 83 percent usage of contraceptives while in both South Korea and Thailand the figure is 78 percent.

The High Court directs the health ministry to obtain a report from the experts of three international organisations about public health risk from radiation emitted from mobile phone towers set up in different areas across the country.

In small amounts, vegetable oils are healthy, as they contain fats that are essential in our diets. But our consumption of vegetable oil has increased considerably, and the health effects of high intakes are a source of scientific debate.

A recently completed sample-based study done in Bangladesh claims that the health warning labels describing the harmful effects of tobacco products using text and/or pictures are found to be effective.

Mr Idrish Ali, A 55 year old man came to a physiotherapist to consult about his personal complication.

The rise of multidrug-resistant (MDR) and extensively drug-resistant (XDR) tuberculosis (TB) threatens to derail decades of progress in controlling the disease, according to a new report in The Lancet Respiratory Medicine published on World TB day on 24th March.