Eating carbohydrates in moderation seems to be optimal for health and longevity, suggests new research published in The Lancet Public Health journal.

During Eid-ul-Adha every year thousands of animals are being slaughtered in our country and in many other countries. The question is

Every year on 19 August, World Humanitarian Day brings citizens of the world together to rally support for people living in crises and to pay tribute to the aid workers who help them.

Global tuberculosis (TB) control and elimination will require detailed real-time information on the location of individuals with the

Your kidneys have to work hard to process all that extra sugar in your blood. When they cannot keep up, your body gets rid of it, along with water that your body needs.

Urban air is being polluted by antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs) whose exposure is posing threat to human health, researchers warn.

New US research finds that blue light from digital devices such as smartphones and tablets can trigger a process in the retina of the eye which kills cells, and may increase the risk of blindness.

About half of the people in the coastal south western districts of Khulna and Satkhira of Bangladesh have no access to safe drinking

Children born before the U.S.-mandated folic acid fortification of foods had atypical cortical maturation and greater psychosis risk compared with children born afterwards.

Adults who exercise have better mental health than those who do not, according to a cross-sectional study in the Lancet Psychiatry.

An estimated 78 million babies — or three in five — are not breastfed within the first hour of life, putting them at higher risk of death

Gallstones can be simply defined as the solid stones formed in the gallbladder. The gallbladder is a pear-shaped small structure that remains underneath the liver and by a common bile duct it is connected with the liver.

Matching female doctors to female patients "reduced the probability of death by 5.4 percent, relative to this baseline," the study says..

Rotavirus is one of the several viruses known to cause a self-limited gastroenteritis, better known as diarrhoea. Fluid stool losses may be dramatic, and death from dehydration is not uncommon, particularly in developing countries like Bangladesh.

Infants whose mothers drank alcohol while breast-feeding had lower cognition scores by age 6, according to an observational study.

Asgar Ali Hospital commemorated World Hepatitis Day (July 28, 2018) focusing on this year’s theme “Time to Test, Time to Treat, Time to Cure”.

Family Planning 2020 (FP2020) is a global partnership that supports the rights of women and girls to decide, freely, and for themselves,

In the remote haor areas in Sunamganj, Bangladesh, a band of community actors are working in collaboration with different

In group analyses, children born before the U.S.-mandated folic acid fortification of foods had atypical cortical maturation and greater psychosis risk compared with children born afterwards.

Every year, high temperatures affect the health of many people, particularly older people, infants, people who work outdoors and those who are chronically ill.