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-- 2020-12-11 21:17:48
AstraZeneca will start clinical trials to test a combination of its experimental COVID-19 vaccine with Russia's Sputnik V shot aimed at boosting the efficacy of the British drugmaker's vaccine, Russia...
-- 2020-12-11 17:23:45
Novartis has received approval from the European Commission for Leqvio, also known as inclisiran, a drug to lower cholesterol that the Swiss drugmaker bought last year in a deal worth nearly $10 billi...
Imtiaz Ahmed 2020-12-11 17:07:18
Razib got a decent job soon after completing his graduation. But the young man was hiding a secret from his employer. He bore a skin condition called 'Psoriasis'. Though not noticeable normally, it w...
Hindustan Times 2020-12-10 15:43:55
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation announced it will commit an additional $250 million to strengthen global efforts to end the coronavirus disease (Covid-19) pandemic. This brings the foundation...
Adnan Hossain Bhuiyan 2020-12-10 10:50:40
The introduction of antigen-based kits for testing coronavirus has hardly made any visible progress in boosting the number of tests in the country even as both infections and fatalities from the virus...
Reuters 2020-12-10 09:21:54
Britain’s medicine regulator said anyone with a history of anaphylaxis to a medicine or food should not get the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine, giving fuller guidance on an earlier allergy war...
-- 2020-12-09 21:50:09
Rich nations, home to 14 per cent of the global population, have acquired 53 per cent of the total stock of the most-promising Covid-19 vaccines as of last month, said the People's Vaccine Alliance on...
-- 2020-12-09 13:21:15
Nine out of 10 people in dozens of poor nations could miss out on getting vaccinated against coronavirus (Covid-19) next year because rich countries have hoarded far more doses than they need, campaig...
-- 2020-12-09 11:08:08
The US health regulatory and research institute CDC has said it was willing to offer Bangladesh its expertise in fixing priority of potential anti-Covid-19 vaccine recipients, fearing the issue to eme...
-- 2020-12-07 18:49:34
Ivermectin has shown promise against Covid-19 in a clinical trial and patients receiving a five-day course of ivermectin have shown an early viral clearance and improvements of blood biomarkers compar...
Hindustan Times 2020-12-06 18:44:14
Compared to men, women face a 20 per cent increased risk of developing heart failure or dying within five years after their first severe heart attack, according to new research. The research was publ...
-- 2020-12-05 16:55:25
The World Health Organization (WHO) hopes to have half a billion doses of Covid-19 vaccines available for distribution by the global COVAX initiative in the first quarter of 2021. To date, 189 countr...
-- 2020-12-04 21:05:26
When most of the hospitals suspended non-emergency services and doctors shut their private chambers during the initial bout of the coronavirus pandemic, telemedicine services emerged as a saviour to t...
-- 2020-12-04 18:43:38
Bangladesh is seeing a gradual rise in dengue cases and the health authority confirmed 11 cases in the past 24 hours until early Friday. Sixty-eight dengue patients, including 61 in Dhaka, are receiv...
-- 2020-12-04 16:36:22
As the world awaits a Covid-19 vaccine, a US public health expert says the vast majority of people in Bangladesh and other parts of the world will have to wait a bit longer than expected due to limite...
Reuters 2020-12-04 13:13:50
Moderna said on Thursday (USstandard time) it expects to have between 100 million and 125 million doses of its experimental Covid-19 vaccine available globally in the first quarter (Q1) of 2021. The...
Reuters 2020-12-03 20:50:12
The promise of COVID-19 vaccines is "phenomenal" and "potentially game-changing", World Health Organisation European director Hans Kluge said on Thursday, a day after Britain became the first Western...
-- 2020-12-02 19:29:03
Speakers at a meeting on Wednesday underscored the need for engagement of vulnerable communities in the process of combating HIV virus infection in the country. They also suggested creating awareness...
-- 2020-12-02 18:22:06
People living in areas with where COVID-19 is spreading should always wear masks in shops, workplaces and schools that lack adequate ventilation, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said on Wednesday....
SM NAJMUS SAKIB 2020-12-02 15:52:50
The high level of lead in toys is exposing children to health hazards as it can be inhaled easily, experts say. They have called for immediate research and action from the authorities concerned to ad...
FE Report 2020-12-02 10:47:55
Bangladesh has missed about 50 per cent of tests for HIV in 2020 due to the Covid-19 pandemic. This year the country tested over 0.5 million people instead of 1.0 million and screened 0.83 million pe...
JUBAIR HASAN 2020-12-02 08:40:36
The fate of the home-grown Covid-19 vaccine 'Bangavax', which was initially called 'Bancovid', has become uncertain due to procedural complexities in developing clinical trial protocols, officials hav...
-- 2020-12-01 16:18:56
Noting that the new Covid-19 infections declined globally for the first time since September, the World Health Organization (WHO) urged people to deal with the things with ‘extreme caution&rsquo...
Hindustan Times 2020-12-01 15:15:03
Moderna Inc applied for US and European emergency authorisation of its Covid-19 vaccine based on full results from a late-stage study showing its vaccine was 94.1 per cent effective with no serious sa...
Reuters 2020-12-01 12:19:25
Moderna said on Monday (US standard time) it has applied for US emergency authorisation for its Covid-19 vaccine after full results from a late-stage study showed it was 94.1 per cent effective with n...
REUTERS 2020-12-01 11:47:21
The following is a roundup of some of the latest scientific studies on the novel coronavirus and efforts to find treatments and vaccines for Covid-19, the illness caused by the virus. Immune system r...
-- 2020-11-30 15:44:36
Speakers at a webinar have said there is a complex relationship between sleep and mental state; and in many cases, insomnia is responsible for various types of mental illness. They, however, said peo...
-- 2020-11-29 16:46:30
The Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) reported 21 more dengue cases across the country in the past 24 hours till Sunday morning, raising concerns among doctors and patients. Currently, 86...
-- 2020-11-27 17:13:18
The British government's Chief Scientific Adviser Patrick Vallance said on Thursday the main point about the AstraZeneca vaccine against COVID-19 was that it worked when asked about doubts that have b...
REUTERS 2020-11-27 13:46:44
Days after grabbing headlines with its Covid-19 “vaccine for the world”, AstraZeneca is facing tricky questions about its success rate that some experts say could hinder its chances of get...
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