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.

Indian surgeons who removed a massive brain tumour in a marathon seven-hour procedure says it could be the heaviest ever recorded.

Parents are less likely to seek treatment for a sick baby girl than a boy in India, where more female infants die within the first month of being born, the United Nations says.

Common dieting advice urges people to either eat fewer carbohydrates or less fat in order to shed weight. But a study Tuesday found neither approach is better than the other.

Older adults who have acquired positive beliefs about old age from their surrounding culture are less likely to develop dementia,

Praava Health signed an Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Ahsania Mission Cancer & General Hospital, whereby Ahsania

Novartis and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation have formed an alliance to advance development of Novartis’ drug candidate KDU731

To diagnose a disease correctly, we have three tools in our hand. The first one is meticulous history taking. Taking history with due

The World Health Organisation (WHO) has issued new recommendations to establish global care standards for healthy pregnant

We all need some support from time to time, especially from our partners. However, it can be difficult to know what is the right thing to say or do to help, and sometimes you may even feel like you are making things worse.

Nowadays, people are much more conscious about their skin’s beauty. But refined sugar, which we use vastly in our daily life, can

The current spread of multidrug-resistant malaria in southeast Asia is likely to be the result of two mutations combining in 2008,

Apollo Hospitals Dhaka celebrated World Cancer Day which takes place around the world every year on February 4 to save millions of

Two draft reports from the National Toxicology Programme (NTP), released recently, offer mixed findings on a potential association

Recently Health Minister of Afghanistan Dr. Ferozuddin Feroz has announced the induction of Rota vaccine in the country’s