Diabetes is a metabolic disease that occurs due to absolute insulin deficiency (type-1 diabetes) or inadequate insulin secretion or action (type-2 diabetes). Insulin is needed for entry of glucose into the cells after food metabolism which is hampered in diabetes, resulting in increase blood glucose level.

Cox's Bazar Women and Children's Hospital — a project of Hope Foundation serves the people living in remotest area of Bangladesh. In some specialised services like fistula operation, they provide tertiary care at free of cost which is even rare in some district level hospitals.

An increasingly warped sense of humour could be an early warning sign of impending dementia, say UK experts.

This is believed to be neuroscience’s final frontier. Tiny bubbles will open the blood-brain barrier to sneak drugs into tumours – and we might treat Alzheimer's the same way, reports New Scientist.

Medtronic in partnership with D16 Pharma and Biotec organised a cardiovascular summit in Dhaka on November 6, 2015 to address the barriers to the treatment of cardiovascular diseases in Bangladesh.

Pink road show for breast cancer awareness

Popular Bangladeshi film actor Ananta Jalil was introduced as a goodwill ambassador of the 12th International Congress on AIDS in Asia

Both acupuncture and the Alexander technique can improve chronic neck pain, according to a study in the Annals of Internal Medicine.

There are many birth defect which needs to be corrected immediately following delivery of baby. Such a condition is bilateral choanal atresia.

A new era started with hope and vision for millions of psoriasis patients on October 29, 2004. The International Federation of Psoriasis Associations (IFPA) declared the psoriasis day on that day.

The World Health Organization is set to announce that Ebola-ravaged Sierra Leone has beaten an epidemic that killed almost 4,000 of its people and plunged the economy into recession.

Have you ever wondered what measures can be adopted to prevent yourself from this flu? The Daily Star brings to you expert advice from medical practioners on ‘home remedies to prevent seasonal flu’

A summit on cardiovascular diseases titled Cardiovascular Summit is going to be held on November 6, 2015 in Hotel Le Meridien, Dhaka,

Apollo Hospitals Dhaka has joined forces with stroke campaigners around the world on World Stroke Day on the October 29, as part of

In general people are concerned about their blood pressure. But a lot of us are not aware of eye pressure known as intra-ocular

Independent scientists and nutritionists at the Alliance for Natural Health International (ANH-Intl) have recently published new guidelines

Recently Prof Dr Kamrul Hassan Khan, Vice Chancellor of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University (BSMMU), talked to Shahnoor

Countdown to 2015 – Maternal, Newborn and Child Survival – launched its 2015 Report on October 19, 2015, at the first Global

Scientists have designed microscopic "grenades" that can explode their cancer-killing payload in tumours.

The first drug that targets precise genetic mutations in prostate cancer has been shown to be effective in a "milestone" trial by UK scientists.