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-- 2021-10-21 10:14:28
The Covid pandemic will "go on for a year longer than it needs to" because poorer countries are not getting the vaccines they need, the World Health Organization (WHO) says. Dr Bruce Aylward,...
-- 2021-10-19 15:08:27
A World Health Organization-led programme to ensure poorer countries get fair access to COVID-19 vaccines, tests and treatments aims to secure antiviral drugs for patients with mild symptoms for as li...
-- 2021-10-18 10:39:14
The plan to roll out Merck & Co's promising antiviral pill to treat Covid-19 risks repeating the inequities of vaccine distribution, potentially leaving the nations with the greatest need once aga...
-- 2021-10-16 11:04:34
Two weeks ago, Rakibul Islam had come down with a cold, cough and fever, which his family with three children contracted later. "All of a sudden I began to sneeze and had a runny nose along with a...
-- 2021-10-16 11:03:43
Outside advisers to the US Food and Drug Administration on Friday unanimously recommended the agency authorise a second shot of Johnson & Johnson's Covid-19 vaccine for a...
-- 2021-10-15 11:19:38
A panel of expert advisers to the US Food and Drug Administration unanimously voted on Thursday to recommend booster shots of Moderna's Covid-19 vaccine for Americans aged 65 and older and those...
-- 2021-10-13 08:49:47
Scientists at the US Food and Drug Administration said on Tuesday that Moderna had not met all of the agency's criteria to support use of booster doses of its Covid-19 vaccine, possibly because t...
-- 2021-10-12 11:43:48
Moderna has no plans to share the recipe for its COVID-19 vaccine because executives have concluded that scaling up the company's own production is the best way to increase the global supply, the comp...
-- 2021-10-11 17:38:12
AstraZeneca's experimental COVID-19 antibody-drug cocktail succeeded in reducing severe disease or death in non-hospitalised patients in a late-stage study, the British drugmaker said on Monday. The...
-- 2021-10-10 14:15:26
A new disease may reach pandemic status at any time following the end of the COVID-19 crisis, warns Dr Firdausi Qadri. The Ramon Magsaysay Award-winning scientist advised authorities to take precau...
SM NAJMUS SAKIB 2021-10-10 09:00:41
The mental health status of the students especially at the country's universities has taken a turn for the worse with 84.6 per cent suffering from mental depression during the Covid-19 pandemic, acc...
SM Najmus Sakib 2021-10-09 20:08:00
The mental health situation of the country’s university students has turned to be a worrying situation with as many as 84.6 per cent experiencing mental depression in the pandemic, according...
-- 2021-10-09 17:36:58
Even though Bangladesh logged 15,61,463 Covid-19 cases as of Friday, experts believe around 70 per cent population of the country may have contracted the virus and developed natural antibodies. Some...
-- 2021-10-09 10:42:14
The following is a summary of some recent studies on COVID-19. They include research that warrants further study to corroborate the findings and that have yet to be certified by peer review, reports R...
Sirajum Munira Tuli 2021-10-08 14:41:07
During the Covid-19 pandemic, the advice that everyone heard the most is ‘Eat more vitamin C-enriched foods." Anticipating that this vitamin will enhance the immune system, many people took this...
FE ONLINE DESK 2021-10-07 11:25:00
The World Health Organization (WHO) on Wednesday endorsed the world’s first malaria vaccine and said it should be given to children across Africa in the hope that it will spur stalled efforts to...
-- 2021-10-06 13:49:04
Vaccine development in the shortest possible time has been the prime focus while paving the way out of the COVID-19 pandemic. Data has played a critically important role, both nationally and globally,...
-- 2021-10-05 11:21:15
The effectiveness of the Pfizer Inc /BioNTech SE vaccine in preventing infection by the coronavirus dropped to 47 per cent from 88 per cent six months after the second dose, according to data publishe...
Areeba Afrah 2021-10-04 20:28:08
Bangladesh has been in and out of lockdowns for varying periods till late August this year amid the coronavirus pandemic. However, since the relaxation of lockdown measures, including the reopening o...
-- 2021-10-03 19:08:29
Digital Hospital,provider of over 1.3 million digital doctor consultations, has recently launched Medi Express - delivering all the necessary medicines to the doorstep of patients in Dhaka within a pr...
SWASTIKA KARMAKER 2021-10-03 15:24:51
In recent times, there has been too much hue and cry regarding heart diseases as we are seeing people of young ages dying from cardiovascular diseases (CVD). We are worried about the COVID-19 pandemic...
-- 2021-10-02 11:22:25
A pill developed by US drugmaker Merck could halve the chances of dying or being hospitalised for those most at risk of contracting severe Covid-19, with experts hailing it as a potential breakthrough...
FE ONLINE REPORT 2021-10-01 21:47:59
About four out of five older people (60 years and above) suffer from chronic diseases, including hypertension, diabetes, depression, and dementia in Bangladesh, says a new study. The findings were sh...
-- 2021-10-01 18:35:49
Drugmaker Merck said Friday that its experimental COVID-19 pill reduced hospitalisations and deaths by half in people recently infected with the coronavirus and that it would soon ask health officials...
-- 2021-10-01 14:29:20
The Serum Institute of India, which produces the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine, will resume small exports via the global vaccine-sharing platform COVAX this month and raise it substantially by January,...
-- 2021-09-30 11:58:33
AstraZeneca Plc's Covid-19 vaccine demonstrated 74 per cent efficacy at preventing symptomatic disease, a figure that increased to 83.5 per cent in people aged 65 and older, according to long-awaited...
Sirajum Munira 2021-09-30 11:50:52
College student Mehedi Hasan (pseudonym) was scrolling the newsfeed on Facebook at 10:00pm. Suddenly, he saw the latest video of some famous food vloggers of Bangladesh. They took the challenge to fin...
-- 2021-09-29 18:07:59
At least one long-term COVID-19 symptom was found in 37 per cent of patients three to six months after they were infected by the virus, a large study from Oxford University and the National Institute...
-- 2021-09-29 09:54:12
Pfizer and BioNTech on Tuesday submitted initial trial data for their Covid-19 vaccine in 5-11 year olds and said they would make a formal request to US regulators for emergency use in the coming week...
-- 2021-09-28 21:23:10
Speakers at a webinar on Tuesday urged the government to finalise the regulations to limit the intake of Trans Fatty Acid (TFA) or trans-fat-laden foods, which is a major cause of heart diseases. On...
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