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SIRAJUM MUNIRA TULI 2022-01-26 17:11:04
After potatoes, there is hardly any vegetable that has as many variations in cooking as cauliflower has. Even it is hard to find haters of this winter vegetable; rather the number of people who wait...
-- 2022-01-26 16:52:19
Pfizer Inc and BioNTech SE have started a clinical trial to test a new version of their vaccine specifically designed to target the COVID-19 omicron variant, which has eluded some of the protection pr...
-- 2022-01-24 15:19:22
The head of the World Health Organisation on Monday urged countries to work together to bring the acute phase of the pandemic to an end, saying that they now have all the tools available to do so. "T...
FE REPORT 2022-01-24 09:08:23
Sweden's Karolinska Institute is set to seek ethical clearance of Bangladesh Medical Research Council (BMRC) to start human trial of its developed nasal Covid-19 vaccine here. The ISR has already a...
-- 2022-01-23 16:27:34
Pfizer Inc Chief Executive Albert Bourla said on Saturday that an annual COVID-19 vaccine would be preferable to more frequent booster shots in fighting the coronavirus pandemic. Pfizer/BioNtech's CO...
-- 2022-01-21 11:42:01
Nearly 30 generic drugmakers in Asia, Africa and the Middle East will make cheap versions of Merck & Co's Covid-19 pill, under a landmark UN-backed deal to give poorer nations wider access to a dr...
-- 2022-01-20 23:08:22
A small preliminary laboratory study has shown that levels of omicron-neutralising antibodies of people vaccinated with Russia's Sputnik V vaccine did not decline as much as of those who had Pfizer sh...
-- 2022-01-20 17:54:21
An UN-backed agency has struck a deal for nearly 30 generic drugmakers to make low-cost versions of Merck & Co's Covid-19 pill, molnupiravir, for poorer nations, widening access to a drug seen as...
REUTERS 2022-01-20 13:32:15
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 has yet to be certified by peer review. Rapid ant...
FE REPORT 2022-01-20 08:59:10
Incepta Pharmaceuticals Limited, one of the country's leading pharma companies, has announced the launching of Pfizer's oral antiviral medication - Paxlovid - for treating Covid-19. Incepta will mark...
Mashfiq Mizan 2022-01-18 16:55:38
Two years into the pandemic and with the surge of the highly infectious Omicron variant, people are despairingly asking when or even if this pandemic is ever going to end. The good news is experts co...
Swastika Karmaker 2022-01-17 16:13:26
It all starts with the leaves falling from the trees. The sniffles set in when the temperature falls and the daylight fades. During the winter, the number of people catching a cold or flu due t...
-- 2022-01-15 11:52:29
Australia has likely neared the peak of its omicron wave, authorities said on Saturday, but warned daily infections will linger near record levels for "the next few weeks" after more than 100,000 case...
-- 2022-01-14 20:22:37
Young children and babies are proportionally more likely to be hospitalised with omicron compared to older children than with previous variants but the cases are still mild, British researchers said,...
-- 2022-01-14 15:19:20
A Johnson and Johnson COVID-19 vaccine booster shot is 85 per cent effective in protecting against being hospitalised by the omicron variant for 1-2 months after it is received, the head of South Afri...
-- 2022-01-14 13:33:55
A fast-spreading omicron variant that causes milder illness compared with previous versions of the coronavirus has fueled the view that COVID-19 poses less of a risk than in the past, Reuters reports....
-- 2022-01-14 12:00:11
Polish scientists have found a gene that they say more than doubles the risk of becoming severely ill with COVID-19, a discovery they hope could help doctors identify people who are most at risk from...
FE ONLINE DESK 2022-01-14 09:04:13
The UN health agency has recommended two new drugs for Covid patients. The drug Baricitinib, also known as a Janus kinase (JAK) inhibitor and used to treat rheumatoid arthritis, has been strongly rec...
-- 2022-01-13 18:55:18
Poorer nations last month rejected more than 100 million doses of Covid-19 vaccines distributed by the global programme COVAX, mainly due to their rapid expiry date, a UNICEF official said on Thursday...
FE ONLINE REPORT 2022-01-13 18:40:20
A new global study has revealed plastics pose a significant hazard to human health and ecosystems throughout the entire life cycle, prompting environment experts to call for immediate global action...
-- 2022-01-13 16:12:36
AstraZeneca said on Thursday preliminary data from a trial it conducted on its COVID-19 shot, Vaxzevria, showed it generated a higher antibody response against the omicron variant and others, includin...
-- 2022-01-13 12:29:07
The fresh 11-point restriction, imposed by the government to prevent the highly contagious new African COVID-19 variant Omicron, began today, BSS reports. On January 10, the Cabinet Division issued a...
-- 2022-01-13 11:20:33
The Directorate General of Health Services, or DGHS, has ordered Moderna COVID-19 vaccines to be used in place of Pfizer shots for booster doses at vaccination centres across the country, bdnews24.com...
-- 2022-01-13 11:06:40
The highly infectious omicron coronavirus variant causes less severe disease than the delta strain but it remains a "dangerous virus", particularly for those who are unvaccinated, the head of the Worl...
-- 2022-01-11 18:16:29
The Omicron variant of COVID-19 is on track to infect more than half of Europeans, but it should not yet be seen as a flu-like endemic illness, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Tuesday. Eu...
-- 2022-01-11 17:53:00
Pfizer Inc is likely to start the production of a redesigned COVID-19 vaccine against the Omicron variant of the coronavirus in March after getting approval. Albert Bourla, the chief executive of Pfi...
-- 2022-01-11 13:12:36
A US man with terminal heart disease was implanted with a genetically modified pig heart in a first-of-its-kind surgery, and three days later the patient is doing well, his doctors reported on Monday....
Imtiaz Ahmed 2022-01-10 16:50:24
Headache is not a big issue to be worried about, but migraine is. Why? Because migraine is considered to be a disabling neurological condition that significantly impacts the quality of our lives. Mig...
FE REPORT 2022-01-09 10:17:40
Speakers at an interventional cardiology conference have stressed the need for the prevention of cardiovascular diseases and cost reduction in cardiac treatment in Bangladesh. They, however, said Ban...
-- 2022-01-06 12:47:52
The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said on Wednesday it expanded the eligibility of Pfizer and BioNTech SE's booster doses to those 12 to 15 years old. The move came after a pane...
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