Regular blood tests can detect 86% of ovarian cancers before the point at which women normally would be diagnosed, according to a trial that could lead to national screening.

A recent study has found that chewing betel nuts can cause oral cancer. According to the study, consumption of betel nuts is as harmful as consuming tobacco, or betel leaf. Chewing betel nuts can cause abrasions in the mouth and lips, making the chewers more exposed to cancer.

Over 1.33 lakh char (shoal) households have achieved hygienic sanitation and pure drinking water facilities to improve their health status

A study of more than 1.2 million children in Sweden has concluded that children of parents with any type of diabetes are more likely to

According to the American College of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, all women whatever their age, have a small risk of delivering a baby with physical and intellectual disability.

A diabetic woman has become the first in the world to give birth naturally after using an artificial pancreas while pregnant, reports BBC.

In a new commentary published in the BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, WHO states that quality of care must improve if the world is to end preventable deaths of mothers and newborn babies globally.

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North and South America became the first regions of the world to eradicate rubella, or German measles, after no home-grown cases in five years.

A schoolboy was killed by lightning at Karjana village in Ghior upazila yesterday.

The World Health Organisation (WHO) is calling on the global health community to urgently address significant gaps in the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of malaria. Despite dramatic declines in malaria cases and deaths since 2000, more than half a million lives are still lost to this preventable disease each year.

Bacterial meningitis is a serious but common infection of central nervous system. Delay in treatment may end up with various complications and even death.

We have been talking about anger management for last two weeks. Here goes the last part.

All schools in and around Niger's capital, Niamey, have been shut until Monday because of a meningitis outbreak that has killed 85 people this year, reports BBC.

Recently United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved Jadenu, a new oral iron chelator formulation for chronic iron

Novo Nordisk, a global leader in diabetes care, launched Ryzodeg -- insulin for type 2 diabetes -- in Bangladesh yesterday.

A gang severed the left hand and left leg of a madrasa teacher of Chalitabunia village in Amtali upazila under the district yesterday.

An alleged robber was killed in a “gunfight” between his cohorts and police in Mirpur upazila of Kushtia.

Typically danced at a fairly slow pace to music in the 2/4 time signature, the sensual Argentine social dance could help to improve balance thanks to its specific combination of rhythmic backward and forward steps.

Back pain is a common complaint in the months leading up to delivery, especially during the final trimester and after delivery (in most cases after caesarean section). Gynecological physiotherapy is a non-surgical treatment for a number of women’s health problems.