The Ministry of Women and Children Affairs has taken an initiative to update the child policy formulated in 1994 aiming to protect the fundamental rights of children in the country, reports BSS.

Despite many international agreements affirming their human rights, women are still much more likely than men to be poor and illiterate. They usually have less access than men to medical care, property ownership, credit, training and employment. They are far less likely than men to be politically active and far more likely to be victims [...]

Boys have been more likely than girls to show signs of a particular type of hearing loss, but girls are catching up – and the ubiquity of portable audio players may be to blame, new research suggests.

Women who eat a lot of red meat may be putting themselves at increased risk of stroke, a new study in more than 30,000 Swedish women hints. The study team found that those in the top tenth for red meat consumption, who ate at least 102 grams or 3.6 ounces daily, were 42 percent more [...]

Over 13 million (1.30 crore) women in Bangladesh — more than men — consume different types of smokeless tobacco that causes various diseases, particularly oral cancer, reports UNB. Smokeless tobaccos include ‘gul’, ‘zarda’ and ‘sada pata’ (powdered or dried tobacco leaves).

Jasmin, a poor nursing woman living in Bangladesh’s Gaibandha district, 268 km northwest of capital Dhaka, is leading a healthy and better life with the support of the WFP Community Nutrition program. Community Nutrition program started in 2007, covering three groups of malnourished people in high food insecure rural areas which include pregnant and nursing [...]

Bangladeshi women are still reluctant to visit health facilities out of ignorance and social prejudices, a senior World Health Organisation (WHO) official said. “It’s just social prejudice and ignorance that keeps women from seeking medicare services,” said Frank Pulin, acting country representative of the WHO.

Health authorities have approved a vaccine intended to prevent anal cancer and pre-cancerous lesions in young people aged nine to 26 years old. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) gave the green light recently to the makers of the vaccine Gardasil, which is already used to treat women with cervical, vulvar, and vaginal cancer, and [...]

Findings from a study yesterday revealed that women health workers have been found to be acting as change makers of society at the community level since the sixties of last century. The study conducted over community health programmes of the government, ICDDR,B, BRAC and Gonoswasthya Kendra in Matlab, Savar and Jamalpur said that the recruitment [...]

Women become more vulnerable when a community faces the negative impacts of climate change, said speakers at a dialogue yesterday.

Women who work out while they are pregnant have slimmer babies, new research from New Zealand shows.

To mark the 100th International Women’s Day, Nari Uddug Kendra, a non-government organisation, accorded a reception to female gold winners of the 11th South Asian Games as well as renowned sports organisers and former athletes at the CIRDAP Auditorium here yesterday.

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Women treated for breast cancer are at a higher risk of a relapse if they have “dense” breasts, say researchers, reports BBC. Those with denser breasts are four times more likely to see their cancer return, compared to women with less dense breasts, says the journal Cancer.

Elayne Clift IN 2003, a young woman began talking to Dr Hazel Brown as they prepared to give a press interview at the University of North Carolina (UNC) in Greensboro. “You know,” she said, “my only brother is in prison for life. My only sister had three babies when she was a teenager. In grade [...]