Bangladeshi students in Wuhan city of China, the epicentre of the Coronavirus outbreak, which has claimed 41 lives so far, are under a lockdown in their respective dorms and residences for the last two days.

Two Indians, who returned from China, are kept under observation in the isolation ward of a hospital in Mumbai for possible exposure to coronavirus in the wake of an outbreak in China.

Amid fears of the breakout of a new coronavirus in China, the Directorate General of Health Services in Bangladesh issues a press note informing people of the symptoms of the virus and precautionary methods that should be taken.

None of the 900 China-returnees screened at Dhaka and Chattogram airports are infected by coronavirus, Directorate General of Health Services claims.

China is putting on lockdown a city of 11 million people considered the epicentre of the new coronavirus outbreak that has killed 17 and infected nearly 600 people, as health authorities around the world work to prevent a global pandemic.

A Washington state man who recently traveled to China and a man from Macau are diagnosed with the coronavirus, becoming the first confirmed US and Macau cases of the newly identified virus that has killed people in China and rendered some 300 others sick across Asia.

Amid fear of the breakout of a new SARS-like virus in China, the authorities of Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka begin screening process of passengers coming from the country.

India orders medical check of passengers coming from China to four more airports after Delhi, Mumbai and Kolkata as measure to prevent the new coronavirus from spreading.

A mysterious SARS-like virus has killed a third person and spread around China -- including to Beijing -- authorities say, fuelling fears of a major outbreak as millions begin travelling for the Lunar New Year in humanity's biggest migration.

As a new year and a new decade kick-off, the World Health Organisation (WHO) is releasing a list of urgent, global health challenges. This list reflects a deep concern that leaders are failing to invest enough resources in core health priorities and systems.

If losing weight sits high atop your New Year’s resolution list, you might want to reach for a piping-hot cup of coffee. Why? New research, published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, suggests that just 4 cups of coffee a day can help shed some body fat.

The research, published in The Lancet Digital Health journal, demonstrates the potential of data from wearable devices to improve surveillance of infectious disease.

Enormous hair-fall is a common problem of both men and women, but men are the most vulnerable to being bald. According to The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism (JCEM), a masculine hormone called testosterone acts as the main culprit for this.

Like other developing countries, Bangladesh is facing a multitude of health problems. Paediatric heart problem is one of them. Heart diseases in children are of two types, one is congenital, and another is acquired.

A patient forum for the blood cancer survivors was organised at the Apollo Hospitals Dhaka recently, says a press release. Survivors who were cured by autologous and allogeneic bone marrow transplant and chemotherapy shared their experiences.

Health authorities are concerned that a virus originating in central China could spread when hundreds of millions of Chinese travel during next week's lunar new year festival, but residents said there were was little anxiety in the city at the epicentre.

Psychotic disorders are a group of mental health conditions that change your sense of reality. They make it hard to know what is real and what is not. When you have these disorders, you might see and hear things that do not exist or believe things that are not true.

Researchers have proposed five practices that could help “foster presence and meaningful connection with patients” during clinical encounters.

Sciatica is the name given to pain caused by irritation of the sciatic nerve. Anything that irritates this nerve can cause pain, ranging from mild to severe.

Losing tongue fat might help improve obstructive sleep apnea (OSA), suggests a small study in the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine.