World Immunisation Week – celebrated in the last week of April – aims to promote the use of vaccines to protect people of all ages against disease. Immunisation saves millions of lives and is widely recognised as one of the world’s most successful and cost-effective health interventions.

Despite one in 10 people worldwide global having chronic kidney disease, a new report – The Global Kidney Health Atlas – presented at the World Congress of Nephrology in Mexico City and compiled by the International Society of Nephrology (ISN) and kidney health

A new study shows that investments in adolescent health and wellbeing are some of the best that can be made towards achieving the SDGs.

Bangladesh is one of the largest tobacco consuming countries in the world, with over 46 million (43%) adults consuming cigarettes, bidis, smokeless tobacco or other tobacco products and Bangladesh is one of the five focus countries of the Bloomberg Initiative (BI) to reduce tobacco use.

Past week, leaders from governments, pharmaceutical companies and charitable organisations convened at a five-day summit in Geneva to pledge new commitments to the collective efforts to control and eliminate neglected tropical diseases (NTDs).

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Underscoring the necessity for all countries to support their most vulnerable citizens, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in Bhutan says it is the responsibility of all to make sure adequate social and medical support for individuals with autism and neuro-development disorders.

By simulating a space mission to Mars, an international team of researchers notes that eating salty food led to greater hunger than thirst, at least in the long term. The reason seems to be a protective mechanism that conserves water in the kidneys.

In a conference organised by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), and the World Diabetes

Countries are not increasing spending fast enough to meet the water and sanitation targets under the Sustainable Development Goals

Although global inequalities in survival from childhood leukaemia have narrowed, they still persist with five-year survival in some

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Somnambulism, noctambulism or sleepwalking is a combination of sleepiness and sleeplessness. It constitutes a sleep disorder of

High levels of magnesium in the blood reduce the risk of fractures by 44 percent, according to a new study published in the European Journal of Epidemiology. The study followed 2,245 men aged between 42 and 61 over a 20-year period.

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.

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

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