People with anxiety may not be able to distinguish between neutral and threatening stimuli as well as individuals without this mental health condition, a small study suggests.

A faction of Gonojagoron Mancha yesterday hailed the verdict of upholding the death penalty of war criminal Mir

A truck driver and his helper were injured when a train hit the vehicle at Kewatkhali level crossing in Mymensingh Sadar yesterday.

BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir yesterday alleged that the government was barring the return of its Senior Vice Chairman Tarique Rahman to the country.

Sperm have been made in the laboratory and used to father healthy baby mice in a pioneering move that could lead to infertility treatments, reports BBC.

New evidence on what works to delay the age of marriage for girls at highest risk in Bangladesh were released by the Population Council, says a press release.

Liver is the seat of metabolism in the body. Whatever food we eat, after digestion passes through liver. 85-90% of the blood that leaves the stomach and intestines carries important nutrients to the liver where the proteins are processed and broken down into amino acids, carbohydrates into glucose and fats into amino acids.

We are more or less aware about the importance of washing hands. The healthcare professionals and persons responsible for patient care certainly needs to be concerned about hand hygiene and should be able to perform it correctly at the right time.

A recent study from China reported an alarming finding: a gene that confers resistance to certain antibiotics (used against dangerous bacteria) is found in a growing number of bacteria from meat samples in China and from some hospital patients.

Researchers at University College, London have developed a way of finding unique markings within a tumour - its "Achilles heel" - allowing the body to target the disease.

Evidence mounted linking Zika to the birth defect microcephaly, and the United Nations health agency set a review of travel advice related to the outbreak of the virus while US officials planned strategy to control mosquitoes that spread it.

Police recovered seven grenades and ammunition from a septic tank at a compound of Sadar Hospital in Naogaon

Two alliances of 13 student organisations yesterday demanded a fair probe into the recent death of a Dhaka University student and election to all student unions at universities and colleges.

Bangladesh Society for Human Resource Management (BSHRM) organised a press conference last Saturday, February 13 to announce the date of their biggest event of the year.

“There is only one thing common among us all, that is, we are all unique. Each one of us is promised a destiny, a unique place to belong and to excel. Jobs we do are mere spaces of exploration helping us to uncover this destiny. And being guided by this destiny is what makes our journey magical.”

The emotional stress that causes chest pains and breathlessness can occur in moments of joy as well as anger, grief and fear, a Swiss study suggests.

Custom officials seized a container full of foreign cigarettes worth over Tk seven crore at Chittagong port on charge of

Offering the meningitis B vaccine to all children is "not cost effective" and would be a waste of NHS money, the government says.

Global health officials are racing to better understand the Zika virus behind a major outbreak that began in Brazil last year and has since spread to many countries in the Americas.

New research gives the first evidence that Zika virus might cause a severe neurological disorder called Guillain-Barré syndrome.