November 17 is World Prematurity Day. Each year this day is devoted to raising awareness of preterm birth and the concerns of premature babies and their families. According to World Health Organisation (WHO), an estimated 15 million babies are born preterm around the world each year.

Population is an unbearable burden for Bangladesh and it happens to be the most densely populated country in the world. The area of Bangladesh is too small to support its vast population. As a result over-population creates a lot of critical problems. All the problems eventually lead to a general problem named poverty. Hence, it could be safely said that the poverty of our country is largely an aftermath of its population problem.

A medical dressing that changes colour when it detects infection could cut the unnecessary use of antibiotics, say scientists at Bath University.

Ms. Lutfe Ara, Head of the Clinical Governance Unit of icddr,b has received the prestigious “Best International Abstract Award” from “Association for Professional in Infection Control and Epidemiology (APIC)” — a Washington based international organisation for public health professional to prevent the infection control.

It is never easy to give up something with which you’re habituated, therefore quitting cigarettes, after years of ‘togetherness’ must be extremely difficult. The good news is: nothing is impossible in this world just like quitting cigarettes. To give up smoking, you need determination, they say.

Infection with a species of parasitic worm increases the fertility of women, say scientists.

The world is on the cusp of a "post-antibiotic era", scientists have warned after finding bacteria resistant to drugs used when all other treatments have failed.

US surgeons say they have carried out the world's most extensive face transplant to date, including the entire scalp, ears and eyelids.

Smartphones, tablets and e-readers should have an automatic "bedtime mode" that stops them disrupting people's sleep, says a leading doctor.

A recent study from Cornell University suggests that overweight Americans do not indulge in junk food more often; researchers suspect that eating too much food in general could be more to blame for obesity.

With the onset of winter, patients with asthma often experience some sudden attack. During an asthma attack, also called an asthma exacerbation, the airways become swollen and inflamed. The muscles around the airways contract, causing your breathing (bronchial) tubes to narrow.

Nowadays social media has taken the human race by storm. Throughout the world Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter etc. are now used by 1 in 4 people. Such activity may seem harmless but scientists advocate this can affect our health (especially mental) and happiness.

Diabetes is a metabolic disease that occurs due to absolute insulin deficiency (type-1 diabetes) or inadequate insulin secretion or action (type-2 diabetes). Insulin is needed for entry of glucose into the cells after food metabolism which is hampered in diabetes, resulting in increase blood glucose level.

Cox's Bazar Women and Children's Hospital — a project of Hope Foundation serves the people living in remotest area of Bangladesh. In some specialised services like fistula operation, they provide tertiary care at free of cost which is even rare in some district level hospitals.

An increasingly warped sense of humour could be an early warning sign of impending dementia, say UK experts.

This is believed to be neuroscience’s final frontier. Tiny bubbles will open the blood-brain barrier to sneak drugs into tumours – and we might treat Alzheimer's the same way, reports New Scientist.

There are many birth defect which needs to be corrected immediately following delivery of baby. Such a condition is bilateral choanal atresia.

A new era started with hope and vision for millions of psoriasis patients on October 29, 2004. The International Federation of Psoriasis Associations (IFPA) declared the psoriasis day on that day.

Medtronic in partnership with D16 Pharma and Biotec organised a cardiovascular summit in Dhaka on November 6, 2015 to address the barriers to the treatment of cardiovascular diseases in Bangladesh.

Pink road show for breast cancer awareness