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AstraZeneca drug for rare disease shows promise in flushing copper build-up

FE ONLINE DESK 2021-08-26 17:00:35

AstraZeneca said on Thursday a late-stage trial showed its medicine for a rare disease that causes accumulation of copper in the body was three times more successful in helping remove deposits from ti...

Moderna withholds 1.63m vaccine doses in Japan after report of contamination

-- 2021-08-26 12:41:23

Moderna said on Wednesday it has withheld supply of about 1.63 million doses of its Covid-19 vaccine in Japan after a report of contamination of vials with particulate matter, which it suspects involv...

'COVID vaccine protection wanes within six months'

-- 2021-08-25 18:05:49

Protection against COVID-19 offered by two doses of the Pfizer/BioNTech and the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccines begins to fade within six months, underscoring the need for booster shots, according to rese...

More than 700m people living with untreated hypertension

-- 2021-08-25 18:00:59

The number of adults aged 30–79 years with hypertension has increased from 650 million to 1.28 billion in the last thirty years, according to the first comprehensive global analysis of trends in...

South Korea set to curb Google, Apple commission dominance

-- 2021-08-25 10:15:26

South Korea is likely to bar Google and Apple from requiring software developers to use their payment systems, effectively stopping them from charging commissions on in-app purchases, the first such c...

Llama antibodies blunt COVID variants in lab trial, says Belgian start-up

-- 2021-08-24 16:13:22

Llama antibodies could soon be playing a role in the global fight against COVID-19 if clinical trials being conducted by a Belgian biomedical start-up live up to their early promise, reports Reuters....

Bangladesh to receive 1.0m Pfizer vaccine jabs on Aug 30: Minister

-- 2021-08-24 15:20:56

Another 1.0 million doses of Pfizer vaccine from COVAX facility will reach Bangladesh on August 30, said Health Minister Zahid Maleque on Tuesday. The Pfizer vaccine doses, gifted by the US, are sche...

AstraZeneca's antibody therapy prevents COVID-19, study shows

REUTERS 2021-08-20 20:17:45

AstraZeneca's new antibody therapy reduced the risk of people developing COVID-19 symptoms by 77 per cent in a late-stage trial, putting the drugmaker on track to offer protection to those who respond...

Covid-19 vaccine efficacy wanes under Delta, shows British study

REUTERS 2021-08-20 09:51:17

A British public health study has found that protection from either of the two most commonly used Covid-19 vaccines against the now prevalent Delta variant of the coronavirus weakens within three mont...

Domestic methods for reducing stress

Sirajum Munira Tuli 2021-08-19 18:39:12

Who didn't like to crack bubble wrap with fingertips at childhood? Or putting hands in a drum full of rice and moving it, or keeping the house fragrant with incense? As we grew older, technology rep...

No need for Covid booster shots for now, WHO says

-- 2021-08-19 10:30:46

Current data does not indicate that COVID-19 booster shots are needed, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Wednesday, adding that the most vulnerable people worldwide should be fully vaccinate...

Bangavax animal trials begin

JUBAIR HASAN 2021-08-18 08:38:04

After months of uncertainty, Globe Biotech Limited (GBL) restarted preclinical or animal trials of its homegrown Covid vaccine, Bangavax, in a breakthrough. This time, it is being trialed on monkey...

Smoking killed 7.69m people worldwide in 2019

UNB 2021-08-15 22:51:31

About 7.69 million people died worldwide in 2019 from different smoking-related diseases, an estimate by an international team of researchers show. China accounted for the largest number of deaths -...

Swedish researchers plan human trial of nasal COVID vaccine in Bangladesh

-- 2021-08-14 20:47:46

Swedish researchers are preparing to apply for permission from Bangladesh authorities to hold clinical trials of a nasal COVID-19 vaccine on humans in the South Asian country, according to a bdnews24....

Peru study finds Sinopharm vaccine 50.4pc effective against Covid infections

REUTERS 2021-08-13 13:01:56

A two-dose Covid-19 vaccine from China's Sinopharm was 50.4 per cent effective in preventing infections in health workers in Peru when it was seeing a surge in cases fuelled by virus variants, and boo...

US FDA authorises Covid vaccine boosters for the immunocompromised

REUTERS 2021-08-13 11:11:53

The US Food and Drug Administration on Thursday authorised a booster dose of Covid-19 vaccines from Pfizer Inc and Moderna Inc for people with compromised immune systems. A few other countries, such...

10 times fewer virus particles needed to catch Delta variant

TASS 2021-08-09 20:48:29

The Delta variant of Covid-19 is much more transmissible than the original Wuhan variant, as it takes 10 times fewer virus particles to catch the infection, according to Rinat Maksyutov, director of t...

Beyond Delta, scientists watching new variants

REUTERS 2021-08-09 10:32:29

The continued spread of the SARS-CoV-2 virus has spawned a Greek alphabet of variants - a naming system used by the World Health Organisation to track concerning new mutations of the virus that causes...

Covid-19 deaths among youth rising, DGHS says

FE Online Report 2021-08-08 16:32:30

Deaths in Covid-19 among young people have seen rising in the country, creating a new concern. A total of eight people aged between 21 and 30 died of Covid-19 on Saturday, while anothe...

‘Taking vitamin-C, zinc, current treatment can prevent transmission of Delta variant’

FE ONLINE REPORT 2021-08-07 17:55:39

To prevent the high transmissible and more fatal Delta variant, microbiologist Dr Bijon Kumar Sil noted taking a combination of Vitamin C with Zinc along with the current conventional COVID-19 treatme...

The prospects of augmented and virtual reality in the healthcare sector

Anadil Maisha 2021-08-06 19:16:04

The incorporation of augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality in the medical field has been on the rise for years now. Once mostly associated with the gaming industry, over the years more and more c...

BRICS scientists to analyse mathematical modelling of COVID-19 pandemic

-- 2021-08-06 16:09:46

Scientists from four BRICS countries (India, China, Russia and Brazil) will carry out genomic sequencing of SARS-CoV-2 and studies on the epidemiology and mathematical modelling of the COVID-19 pandem...

WHO calls for halting COVID-19 vaccine boosters in favour of unvaccinated

REUTERS 2021-08-04 23:23:27

The World Health Organisation is calling for a halt on COVID-19 vaccine boosters until at least the end of September, its head Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on Wednesday, as the gap between vaccinat...

Global COVID-19 cases surpass 200 million

REUTERS 2021-08-04 22:42:15

Coronavirus cases worldwide surpassed 200 million on Wednesday, according to a Reuters tally, as the Delta variant threatens areas with low vaccination rates. Cases are rising in at least 83 out of 2...

WHO seeks $11.5b in urgent funding to fight Delta variant

-- 2021-08-04 17:45:24

The World Health Organisation (WHO) is seeking $11.5 billion in urgent funding to fight the more infectious Delta variant of the coronavirus amid worries as wealthy nations are partly bypassing its CO...

Breastfeeding can reduce infant mortality rate by 31pc: Studies

FE Online Report 2021-08-03 20:50:29

Breastfeeding within an hour of birth can reduce the infant mortality rate by 31 per cent, several studies have found. Moreover, only breastfeeding up to six months can reduce the risk of infant deat...

J&J says still in talks with Indian govt over Covid vaccine

-- 2021-08-03 09:56:26

Johnson & Johnson said on Monday it was still in talks with the Indian government over its COVID-19 vaccine after the country's drug regulator announced the company had pulled its proposal seeking...

Delta spreads 'like wildfire' as doctors examine whether it makes patients sicker

Reuters 2021-08-03 09:18:32

With a new wave of Covid-19 infections fuelled by the Delta variant striking countries worldwide, disease experts are scrambling to learn whether the latest version of coronavirus is making people - m...

Vaccine passports gaining momentum around the world

BBC 2021-08-01 20:33:41

As time goes on, more countries are considering turning to Covid passports as a way of opening up and letting people travel. These passports are usually accessed via an app on your phone or in some c...

UK advisers say Covid vaccine protection highly likely to wane over time

Reuters 2021-07-31 14:22:27

The protection that vaccines give against Covid-19 infection, and potentially severe disease, is highly likely to wane over time so vaccine campaigns will continue for years to come, scientists told t...