Around 19,000 poor and extremely poor families living in slums in Rajshahi city have been receiving health and

Sharmin Nahar Lucky, Iresh Zaker, Munmun, Mithila and Kankan have joined the Dettol Bangladesh's ‘Give Life a Hand’ campaign with their picture of soap-cleaned hands and video messages on Dettol Bangladesh’s Facebook page and YouTube channel.

A domestic help who sustained burn injuries in an explosion at her employer’s flat at East Ashkona in Dhaka on Sunday, dies at Dhaka Medical College Hospital.

Jamaat-e-Islami leader Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mojaheed and BNP’s Salauddin Quader Chowdhury have sought review of Supreme Court verdicts that upheld their death penalties for war crimes. Mojaheed has filed a 38-page review plea citing 32 grounds while the BNP leader has moved a 108-page petition.

Myanmar's militant group Arakan Liberation Party that had claimed responsibility for the abduction of three Bangladeshis earlier, refuses the ransom and denies their involvement in the incident.

The first clinical trial injecting foetal stem cells into babies still in the womb has been announced.

People who can’t resist fidgeting while they work may want to stop trying to kick the habit, because a new study suggests all that toe tapping and pencil rapping may be good for their health.

Coconut water is a popular nutritious drink worldwide. Plenty of health ailments are treated with this natural healthy drink. Due to its nutritional properties, it is consumed by people of all ages. Coconut water contains vitamin B and C, and minerals likes iron, magnesium, zinc, calcium, phosphorus and potassium. People consume this drink fresh or canned.

“Of all the rights of a woman, the greatest is to be a mother”, so said the influential writer and linguist Lin Yutang. But we must not forget that every right comes with a responsibility. A pregnant woman has the charge of nurturing the baby; who is entirely dependent upon her for survival. Diet and nourishment are central and should be taken seriously throughout the pregnancy.

Yesterday I got a very interesting case. According to a mother, her son is okay in all respect. His intelligence, dietary habit, social relationship, school performance are good.

Knee pain is a common symptom in people of all ages. It may start suddenly, often after an injury or exercise. Knee pain may also begin as a mild discomfort, then slowly worsen. The knee is one of the largest joints in the body which carries our body weight. The surface of the bones inside the knee joint is covered by articular cartilage, which absorbs shock and provides a smooth, gliding surface for joint movement.

You can save a child’s life if you simply teach him how to wash hands.

Bangladesh remains far behind what is needed to minimise the pain and sufferings of patients when they know their

Psychological well-being is much more important than physical wellbeing as people of the 21st century spend days in great stress, said Dhaka University Vice Chancellor AAMS Arefin Siddique yesterday.

A blood test can more than halve the number of people admitted to hospital with a suspected heart attack, say doctors.

Minister for Industries Amir Hossain Amu reiterated the government's commitment to ensure occupational safety and

A new drug for advanced skin cancer should be made available on the NHS in England, experts recommend.

Muggers robbed a family carrying a patient in an ambulance at Bondbil in Alamdanga upazila of Chuadanga district on Monday. Abu Bakar

Governments at 70th UNGA promised to make sustainable development of older people too with the newly adopted SDGs. They discussed in the Open-ended Working Group on Ageing, that a new convention is required.

The School of Public Health of Independent University, Bangladesh (IUB) organised a public talk on World Mental Health recently at IUB campus in Dhaka.