World Dentist’s Day was observed in Dhaka recently by the Bangladesh Dental Society and Unilever Bangladesh's oral care brand Pepsodent with a view to celebrate the dentists and thank them for taking care of the nation's oral health.

Asgar Ali Hospital celebrated this year’s ‘World Kidney Day’ with the slogan of “Kidney and Women’s Health: Include, Value, Empower” in collaboration with ACI Biotech Limited with a rally in the capital.

Apollo Hospitals Dhaka and Healthcare Pharmaceuticals Limited have jointly observed the World Kidney Day 2018 in Dhaka recently. A rally and a mini Marathon took place at the Bashundhara Residential Area to aware the general people about kidney health.

Guidelines for Adolescent Depression in Primary Care (GLAD-PC) include new guidance for primary care clinicians to aid in diagnosing and managing depression in children and adolescents aged 10 to 21.

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This year’s World Kidney Day, on the same day as International Women’s Day (Thursday 8 March) highlighted how women are more likely to donate kidneys than men, and also more likely to suffer from the most serious stages of chronic kidney disease (CKD), mainly because they tend to live longer than men with serious CKD and take longer to reach a critical stage requiring transplantation.

A new European research finds that exposure to air pollution during pregnancy could affect the cognitive function of children, by changing the structure of the brain.

Women Deliver — a leading global advocacy organisation for gender equality and the health, rights and wellbeing of girls and women —

When Eigil Rosegar Poulsen first heard about the controversy over the human papilloma virus (HPV) vaccination in Denmark, he became quite upset. Still, the debate sparked a desire to share his story.

Self-monitoring of blood pressure (BP), with or without telemonitoring, can lead to significant reductions in systolic BP, finds a Lancet study.

Thalassaemia is the most common congenital disorder in Bangladesh. It is estimated that nearly 14,000 thalassaemic children are born every year here.

Walking can be an effective and accessible way for post-menopausal women to improve their heart health according to new US research, which finds that walking for at least 40 minutes several times per week could reduce the risk of heart failure.

Scientists unveil a revised classification for diabetes, one they say could lead to better treatments and help doctors more accurately predict life-threatening complications from the disease.

It’s that time of the year when both students and parents feel “exam pressure”. But a balanced approach helps students boost their memory and remember what they have studied.

With no cure in sight for the cold or the flu, over-the-counter treatments can at best bring symptom relief or shorten the duration of

Alcohol use disorders are a major risk factor for onset of all types of dementia, especially early-onset dementia, according to a French

Most of us in this region are more or less aware of ‘acupuncture’. The traditional Chinese acupuncture first appeared in Yellow

While type 2 diabetes (T2D) was once considered a disease largely confined to older people, the global epidemic of obesity and

Calling for continued efforts to further scale up health services for nearly 1.3 million people in Cox’s Bazar, Rohingyas and their

Paediatricians at an international conference in Dhaka say 13,000 children get affected by cancer every year in Bangladesh, meaning the country is bearing a huge burden of the killer disease.