Experts at a programme Wednesday reiterated the need of a massive awareness campaign across the country to prevent breast cancer, said a press release.
They said apart from women, men can also fall victim to breast cancer, adding that early detection may eliminate death risk in many cases.
National Sports Council (NSC) and ’sanofi-aventis’ Bangladesh, a pharmaceutical [...]

More than 500,000 women die in pregnancy or childbirth every year in the developing world due to lack of proper care, report Rebecca Seal and Katrina Manson.
It is one of the world’s greatest hidden epidemics, but the search for a solution is hopelessly underfunded. On average, every minute of every day a woman somewhere dies [...]

Rising food prices around the world are likely to drive poor women to trade sex for basic goods like fish and cooking oil, raising the risk of new AIDS infections, UN officials said on Monday.
Delegates at a major AIDS conference in Mexico cited the cases of fisherwomen in the Pacific and women in Kenya desperate [...]

According to recent research, vitamin D and calcium supplementation can help postmenopausal women with avoiding weight gain. The study indicates that all women will benefit from adding more vitamin D and calcium to their diets, but those that are receiving less than 1,200 mg of calcium per day will enjoy the greatest benefits. In addition, [...]

Rising food prices around the world are likely to drive poor women to trade sex for basic goods like fish and cooking oil, raising the risk of new AIDS infections, UN officials said on Monday.
Delegates at a major AIDS conference in Mexico cited the cases of fisherwomen in the Pacific and women in Kenya desperate [...]

Adolescent and youth of Bangladesh can play a vital role in removing the barriers towards establishment of women’s sexual and reproductive health rights.
Dr Halida Hanum Akhter, Director General of Family Planning Association of Bangladesh (FPAB), said this at the concluding session of its workshop.
The concluding session of the workshop on ‘awareness building in HIV/AIDS and [...]

In Bangladesh, 12,000 women die needlessly every year as a result of the complications of pregnancy and childbirth. We have the knowledge and technology to prevent most of these deaths. Progress has been made in reducing maternal deaths in Bangladesh, but it needs to be faster and it needs to benefit more poor people.
2007 marks [...]

In the near future, pregnant women will be able to test for structural, chromosomal ‘and genetic abnormalities in their unborn children through a simple blood test. And this can be done from as early as the first trimester.
With more women having their babies at a later age, the chances of having a baby with genetic, [...]

Women deficient in vitamin D at the time of a breast cancer diagnosis are more likely to die or see the tumor spread, a Canadian study published in the United States has shown.
Patients low in vitamin D were 94 percent more likely to see their cancer metastasize and 73 percent more likely to die from [...]

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Speakers at a seminar Thursday urged the media to disseminate information about reproductive health of adolescents so that they can protect themselves from various odds during the critical transitional period in life, reports UNB.
They said the adolescent, which counted around 25 per cent of the country’s population, had a trend of experimenting new things that [...]

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Women’s health is high on UNICEF agenda.

 The Women’s Health Project consists of three sub-projects: Strengthening Emergency Obstetric Care (EmOC); Women Friendly Hospital Initiative; and Social Mobilization and Communication.
The health of women is a crucial factor in the health of children, but gender discrimination leaves women particularly vulnerable to disease and death.
The Maternal Mortality [...]

Bangladeshi women’s choice of a contraceptive is influenced not only by their personal characteristics but also by their assessments of available options. For example, pill users choose their method, among other reasons, because of its convenience, availability and cost, but these factors do not play a significant role in condom users’ method choice. Users of [...]

A new study provides some of the best evidence to date that breast-feeding can make children smarter, an international team of researchers said.
Children whose mothers breast-fed them longer and did not mix in baby formula scored higher on intelligence tests, the researchers in Canada and Belarus reported.

About half the 14,000 babies were randomly assigned to [...]

Abnormally large breasts in men is a medical term called gynecomastia, which is derived from the two Greek words gyne that means “woman” and mastos that means “breast.” The remedy is male breast reduction, which removes fat and tissue from the glands within the breasts, and in drastic cases removes excess skin, creating a flatter, [...]