Officials in four Latin American and Caribbean nations have warned women to avoid pregnancy amid concerns over an illness causing severe birth defects.

A construction worker died and another got injured after they fell from the 7th floor of an under-construction building at North Badda in the capital yesterday around 11:00am.

The doctors' leaders in Chittagong city in a meeting at Chittagong Medical College yesterday gave an ultimatum of 24 hours to withdraw two cases against three doctors filed on Tuesday over negligence in treatment.

Women who carry an inherited fault in the BRIP1 gene are three times more likely to develop ovarian cancer than those without it, researchers say.

Danish Minister for Employment Jørn Neergaard Larsen arrived in Dhaka yesterday morning to launch a partnership for improving the health and safety of workers in Bangladesh.

Nagorik Oikya yesterday demanded that its convener, Mahmudur Rahman Manna, be provided proper treatment and released.

While neither term appears in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, the medical handbook used by psychiatrists, psychopaths can be divided into two categories.

The department of Public Health of American International University - Bangladesh (AIUB) organised a day long workshop and seminar for

Taking readings of brain activity before patients go for surgery could help doctors give a more accurate dose of anaesthetic, researchers suggest.

Your parents knew what was up when they told you to eat your broccoli. This verdant vegetable is a powerhouse of nutrients. It is reputed

Autism is now becoming a familiar condition in Bangladesh. The total numbers of autistic children are increasing day by day.

Researchers from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health have found a link between pre-existing nutritional deficits and immune dysfunction and the risk of hepatitis E infection during pregnancy.

Rafiq Azad, one of the most prolific and versatile poets of the country, was shifted to Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University

An alleged criminal was bullet-hit during a ‘gunfight’ with police in Dhaka’s Sutrapur area this evening.

Eating potatoes or chips on most days of the week may increase a woman's risk of diabetes during pregnancy, say US researchers.

Demanding a separate pay scale for the physicians, doctors of Dhaka Medical College Hospital go on strike – causing sufferings to the patients.

A Bangladesh Bank official traumatised by alleged police torture was admitted to Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH) yesterday with aches in the head and shoulder. Golam Rabbi, an assistant director of the central bank, also complained of his inability to sleep as he had frequent flashbacks and nightmares of the torture. He was admitted to the casualty ward.

People are not getting the healthcare they expect because of an inadequate budget allocation, underutilisation of resources in the health sector and inefficiency, experts said yesterday.

Citing his “fear of death” and health issues, controversial business tycoon Moosa Bin Shamsher seeks to postpone his interrogation by the Anti-Corruption Commission for two to three months.

A Bangladesh Bank official traumatised by alleged police torture is admitted to the Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH).