DHAKA: Sheuli Khatun recently gave birth to a girl – her first child – at Chittagong Medical College. For a woman from a remote village where labour at home in unsafe conditions is common, delivering a healthy baby was cause for celebration."A few weeks after I conceived I started

DHAKA: The immunization campaign to protect children of the country from the deadly Measles and Rubella will be begun on Saturday.Health Minister Mohammad Nasim made the disclosure in a press conference at secretariat on Wednesday. He said in the campaign child from nine months to under

DHAKA: Nutritional or vitamin supplements can play an important role for human body. As these dietary products contain a variety of vitamins and minerals, they can fulfill the lack of nutrients and thereby help the body to work properly.However, it`s not that you must essentially take a

DHAKA: Your metabolism is partly ruled by genetics, but you can rev it up naturally by eating right. Fill up on the following nine foods to increase your body`s fat-burning power.Egg whitesEgg whites are rich in branched-chain amino acids, which keep your metabolism stoked, says Chicago

DHAKA: The start of the day marks a fresh beginning for most of us.Here are a few morning rituals you can follow to not only beat the morning blues but to look your best while you`re at it as well.Coffee: Research suggests that a quick dose of caffeine can potentially help you with

DHAKA: Google unveiled Thursday a contact lens that monitors glucose levels in tears, a potential reprieve for millions of diabetics who have to jab their fingers to draw their own blood as many as 10 times a day.The prototype, which Google says will take at least five years to reach

DHAKA: Shayma, 35, left the border district of Shatkhira for Mumbai after marrying Rafiqul when she was only 13. But on her seventh day in India she was forced into prostitution. A decade later, in 2010, she returned to Bangladesh with her six years old son, Amit, thanks to an Indian NGO

DHAKA: Surgeons in Oxford have used a gene therapy technique to improve the vision of six patients who would otherwise have gone blind.The operation involved inserting a gene into the eye cells, a treatment that revived light-detecting cells.The doctors involved believe that the treatment

DHAKA: With no approved medications to treat autism, more parents are turning to alternative therapies to help their kids.A new study published in the Journal of Behavioral and Developmental Pediatrics found that among parents of 600 children between ages two and five with autism (453)

Mr. R. Basil has been appointed as the Executive Director & CEO of STS Holdings Ltd with effect from 6th January 2014. He will be based at Dhaka and will be responsible for leading all the transformational initiatives of our healthcare business to achieve greater heights of organic &

DHAKA: The cold is bad enough, but winter’s shorter days make the season a downer, to say the least. But how real is seasonal affective disorder (aptly known as SAD)SAD is often a catch-all term to describe the winter dumps, but experts say it’s often misused and the condition is

DHAKA: Patients who have a heart attack have unique cells floating in their blood, say US researchers.Their study on 111 people, published in the journal Physical Biology, could spot the difference between healthy and heart-attack patients.They are investigating whether testing for the

DHAKA: A major cause of premature birth - where waters break too soon, triggering labour - may be caused by specific bacteria, according to research.The research could lead to screening and possible treatment for women at risk of early labour, says a US team.The findings, published in the

DHAKA: The latest study shows vitamin E may have more benefits than memory drugs in combating the disease.For patients with mild to moderate forms of the neurodegenerative disorder, a daily dose of 2,000 IUs of vitamin E safely and effectively slowed the functional decline of

DHAKA: The number of overweight and obese adults in the developing world has almost quadrupled to around one billion since 1980, says a report from a UK think tank.The Overseas Development Institute said one in three people worldwide was now overweight and urged governments to do more to

DHAKA: A daily dose of vitamin E could help people with dementia, research suggests.A study in the journal JAMA found people with mild to moderate Alzheimer`s disease on high doses of vitamin E had a slower rate of decline than those given a dummy pill, reports BBC.They were able to carry

DHAKA: A gene variant that seems to increase the risk of diabetes in Latin Americans appears to have been inherited from Neanderthals, a study suggests.We now know that modern humans interbred with a population of Neanderthals shortly after leaving Africa 60,000-70,000 years ago, reports

DHAKA: Arthritic hands Current treatments relieve the symptoms but not for all patients, and there is no cureAn international team of researchers has found more than 40 new areas in DNA that increase the risk of rheumatoid arthritis, reports BBC.The work is the largest genetic study ever

DHAKA: Modest lifestyle changes in diet and activity by South Asian families improve their chance of losing weight to lower their risk of type 2 diabetes, according to a study.Making moderate improvements could help to improve their health and wellbeing, an Edinburgh clinical trial has

DHAKA: Here are some simple tips to keep the negativity at bay. If you are employed, chances are you often spend more time at office than home.And so, it`s very important that you are happy and relaxed when at work. But that`s easier said than done.A tyrant boss, backstabbing colleagues,