Disease Awareness & Education
Novartis (Bangladesh) Limited works to increase health awareness through sharing knowledge on different diseases through different communication channels. To impart knowledge to the Health Care Professionals of the country, we organize disease awareness sessions across the country, which ultimately leads to improved patient care.
In this section
- Knowing Epilepsy
- Epilepsy is a chronic disorder, the hallmark of which is recurrent, unprovoked seizures. The difference between epilepsy and seizure is, a seizure is a single occurrence, whereas epilepsy is a neurological condition characterized by two or more unprovoked seizures.
- About Heart Failure
- The term heart failure can be frightening, but in reality, it just means that the heart is not pumping as well as it could be.Learn more about it.
- What is migraine?
- Know your Migraine. It is just not a Headache. Learn more about it.
- Are you aware of the symptoms of breast cancer?
- Breast cancer is one of the most common cancers and a leading cause of cancer-related mortality in women worldwide. How would you know if you had breast cancer? Learn about breast cancer detection, screening, testing, and diagnosis.
- Do you know about child growth deficiency disorder?
- Are you worried about your child’s height or growth? Does your child grow less than 2 cm in a year? If yes, then he or she might be suffering from Child Growth Hormone deficiency.
- Know about Osteoporosis
- Osteoporosis means “Porous Bone” or “Low Bone Mass”. Osteoporosis is often called a silent disease because bone loss occurs without symptoms. People may not know that they have osteoporosis until their bones become so weak that a sudden strain, bump, or fall causes a hip to fracture or a vertebra to collapse. Bone becomes fragile and ultimately tends to increase chances of fracture. It mainly affects in weight bearing joint, what we know as “Knee”. It may also affect at hip, spine and wrist.