Health

An ordinary budget for an extraordinary time

Govt must be ready for the enormous challenges that lie ahead
9 June 2022

6 challenges for Finance Minister

Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal sees six major challenges for the fiscal year 2022-23:
9 June 2022

CPR: Essential First Aid for saving lives

Anyone can learn CPR to make home and workplace safer. To learn CPR, there are tonnes of inexpensive ways to learn it. Anyone can learn to become a life saver.
8 June 2022

Marie Stopes Bangladesh opens premium maternity hospital in Mirpur

With a vision to provide quality maternity healthcare services, Marie Stopes Bangladesh (MSB) has taken the philanthropic initiative to open a premium maternity hospital in Mirpur to serve its important clients, exclusively.
8 June 2022

The right diet for beautiful skin and hair

Clean eating is now more important than ever if you want skin and hair that lights up a room.
30 May 2022

Pest control: how to deal with cockroaches and other vermin

Termites, cockroaches and other pests like mosquitoes, ticks, rats and mice are very common in summer
28 May 2022

Why it’s important to understand menopause

In our country, talking about menopause is considered a stigma.
26 May 2022

Tips for a safe pregnancy

Here are a list of things to do and avoid for a safer and healthier pregnancy.
23 May 2022

Are you dehydrated?

A lot of people get sick, and some even die as a consequence of dehydration. It is estimated that one in nine people around the world does not have access to clean drinking water, and dehydration has taken the lives of 760,000 children in developing countries.
14 May 2022

Sleep pattern adjustment during Ramadan

Where Ramadan is a time to get closer to our religion through abstinence and discipline, more often than not, sleep and routine disruptions cause crankiness and low productivity levels during fasting.
27 April 2022

Ramadan and Diabetes: Everything to know while fasting

Diabetes can really bring one down to their knees especially during Ramadan by causing their blood sugar levels drop, making one feel more fatigued and weaker.
26 April 2022

Managing migraines during Ramadan

Migraines are headaches, typically on one side of the head, and often of a pulsating quality, lasting anywhere between 4-72 hours at a stretch.
25 April 2022

Ideal calorie count during sehri and iftar

There is no general guideline for how much food to consume since everyone's calorie demands vary. Generally, 500–600 calories should be consumed at sehri. Whether you consume 400 or 1,000 calories at sehri, your body will feel hungry after 6–8 hours, so there is no need to overeat in the morning.
25 April 2022

Why do we feel so tired after iftar?

Food coma isn’t harmful to the body but it can be inconvenient.
16 April 2022

10 ways to maximise the strawberry season

Bold red, juicy and tantalizingly sweet - strawberries are beloved by many. There are always ways to maximise your enjoyment of strawberries even as the season wanes.
10 April 2022

Dazed and confused

Bangladeshi adolescents and their limited reproductive health knowledge.
30 March 2022

Did British colonialism make South Asians prone to diabetes, cardiovascular diseases?

South Asians, especially people from India, Bangladesh and Pakistan, are six times more likely to develop type 2 diabetes compared to Europeans.
17 March 2022

All you need to know about vitamin D

Vitamin D deficiency has been on the rise in recent times across all age groups. Even in a country like ours with a fairly warm weather, people are struggling to keep their ‘sunshine vitamin’ levels up. While it may be shocking at first, a little research makes it understandable.
12 March 2022

Winter Workout Tips

Here are some tips to get your blood pumping and yourself motivated for working out in winter.
23 February 2022

5 healthy, delicious alternatives to your favourite junk foods

Junk foods gives us the satisfying feeling of consuming something instantly delicious, while healthy foods make us dread to have something bland and unappealing. But what if that was not the case and we could have healthy foods that satisfy our cravings?
17 February 2022