Smartphones, tablets and e-readers should have an automatic "bedtime mode" that stops them disrupting people's sleep, says a leading doctor.

With the onset of winter, patients with asthma often experience some sudden attack. During an asthma attack, also called an asthma exacerbation, the airways become swollen and inflamed. The muscles around the airways contract, causing your breathing (bronchial) tubes to narrow.

Nowadays social media has taken the human race by storm. Throughout the world Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter etc. are now used by 1 in 4 people. Such activity may seem harmless but scientists advocate this can affect our health (especially mental) and happiness.

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.

A recent study from Cornell University suggests that overweight Americans do not indulge in junk food more often; researchers suspect that eating too much food in general could be more to blame for obesity.

2015 saw North South University's business club host NSUers Meet Corporate Icons (NMCI) 2015. The new executive body behind the latest event joined YES! in spring 2013 as general members. Little did they know what they had had signed up for.

The startup scene of Bangladesh is hotter than ever now, with new startups popping up every day.

Meera Sanyal, former CEO & Chairman of the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) in India and a member of the Aam Aadmi Party’s National Policy Committee, delivered an inspirational speech to the students of University of Liberal Arts Bangladesh (ULAB) on November 4, 2015 at ULAB’s Campus A.

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.

Young Entrepreneur's Society (YES!), the business club of North South University, successfully held NSUers Meet Corporate Icons (NMCI) for the sixth consecutive year. This year it was a two-day long seminar touting the tagline 'Know your myths, know your majors'. The goal was to deliver useful information regarding the six major business degrees and to clear any sort of confusion in the minds of the students.

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’