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Deadly heat waves to become more common in South Asia, scientists say

-- 2021-03-25 19:41:40

Potentially deadly heat waves will likely become more commonplace in South Asian countries, including India, in the coming decades even if global warming is limited to 1.5 degrees Celsius, according t...

AstraZeneca to publish full US trial results after rebuke over 'outdated' data

REUTERS 2021-03-24 08:38:05

AstraZeneca will publish up-to-date results from its major US Covid-19 vaccine trial within 48 hours after health officials publicly criticised the drugmaker for using “outdated information&rdqu...

'Sinovac vaccine is safe for children as young as three'

AP 2021-03-23 21:44:17

Sinovac said its COVID-19 vaccine is safe in children ages 3-17, based on preliminary data, and it has submitted the data to Chinese drug regulators. More than 70 million shots of Sinovac’s vac...

US students encounter mental health harms during schools closure

Reuters 2021-03-20 08:44:53

A few weeks after San Francisco’s school district moved to remote learning last year in hopes of halting the spread of the coronavirus, Kate Sullivan Morgan noticed her 11-year-old son was barel...

WHO vaccine safety panel to issue findings on AstraZeneca on Friday: Spokesman

-- 2021-03-18 16:15:46

The World Health Organization's vaccine safety panel is now due to issue its findings on the AstraZeneca Covid-19 shot on Friday, a WHO spokesman said, reports Reuters. The WHO's global advisory comm...

Ultrasound may damage novel coronaviruses, MIT study finds

-- 2021-03-18 16:12:19

Coronaviruses, including SARS-CoV-2, may be vulnerable to ultrasound vibrations, within the frequencies used in medical diagnostic imaging, according to a study that used computer simulations, reports...

Covid-19 disruptions led to 239,000 child and maternal deaths in South Asia: UN report

FE Online Report 2021-03-17 12:14:15

Disruptions in health services caused by the coronavirus pandemic may have contributed to an estimated 239,000 child and maternal deaths in South Asia including Bangladesh, says a UN report. The repo...

Global health experts pore over AstraZeneca safety data

Reuters 2021-03-17 08:59:16

Global health experts came under increasing pressure on Tuesday to clear up questions over the safety of AstraZeneca’s Covid-19 shot, as Sweden and Latvia joined countries suspending their use i...

Bangladesh may see fresh wave of Covid-19, experts fear

-- 2021-03-13 20:22:30

As the country has been witnessing a sudden surge in coronavirus cases for the last four days with more than 1,000 cases each day, health experts think it is likely to be an indication of a fresh wave...

US, allies vow to ensure 1.0b vaccine doses by 2022 in Indo-Pacific region

-- 2021-03-13 19:48:37

US President Joe Biden and fellow leaders of the Indo-Pacific group, known as the Quad, have announced a plan to expand coronavirus vaccine manufacturing capacity in India and to promote access to the...

WHO says its advisory committee looking at AstraZeneca vaccine issues

Reuters 2021-03-12 19:34:59

A World Health Organization expert advisory committee is currently looking at AstraZeneca's COVID-19 vaccine after some countries paused distribution of it, but there is no reason not to use it, a spo...

Governments worldwide pay to bring production home as vaccine nationalism deepens

REUTERS 2021-03-12 15:36:40

In the German town of Dessau, one of the sites of the Bauhaus art school, an institute was set up in 1921 to mass-produce vaccines that later helped strengthen the German Democratic Republic. Exactly...

Novavax vaccine shows strong promise against Covid-19

REUTERS 2021-03-12 13:50:53

Novavax Inc’s Covid-19 vaccine was 96 per cent effective in preventing cases caused by the original version of the coronavirus in a late-stage trial conducted in the United Kingdom, the company...

Rich, poor nations lock horns over bid to waive coronavirus vaccine patents

Reuters 2021-03-11 15:32:52

Richer members of the World Trade Organization (WTO) blocked a push by over 80 developing countries on Wednesday to waive patent rights in an effort to boost the production of Covid-19 vaccines for po...

Eli Lilly's combo therapy for COVID-19 cuts serious illness

-- 2021-03-11 11:25:52

Eli Lilly and Co said on Wednesday that its combination antibody therapy to fight COVID-19 reduced the risk of hospitalisation and death by 87 per cent in a study of more than 750 high-risk COVID-19 p...

UNICEF calls for more vaccine funding as COVAX scheme still needs $1.0b

-- 2021-03-10 20:47:48

The United Nations’ children’s fund on Wednesday urged countries to contribute more money to help poor countries access coronavirus vaccines, saying around $1.0 billion was needed. UNICEF...

UK Covid-19 variant has much higher death rate, study finds

-- 2021-03-10 17:58:24

A highly infectious variant of Covid-19 that has spread around the world since it was first discovered in Britain late last year is between 30 per cent and 100 per cent more deadly than previous strai...

‘Rich nations blocking poorer countries to get vaccines quickly’

SM Najmus Sakib 2021-03-10 16:53:42

Rich nations have been blocking proposals for poorer countries to get vaccines in a quick manner resulting in the majority of the poorest nations failing to avail a single vaccine dose, said a ne...

IOM conducts conference on suicide prevention

FE Online Report 2021-03-09 12:05:42

The International Organization for Migration (IOM) recently organised a two-day conference on suicide prevention in Cox's Bazar to raise awareness and build the capacity of mental health in Bangladesh...

Women fighting on Britain's Covid-19 front line

REUTERS 2021-03-08 10:05:42

After a year that has shaken Britain’s National Health Service to its core, women working at a hospital in the East Lancashire NHS Trust in England’s north-west talk about what the coronav...

Covid-19 travel insurance becoming a vacation staple

REUTERS 2021-03-08 09:59:31

Covid-19 insurance policies are increasingly joining passports and sunscreen as vacation staples, creating opportunities for insurers as more countries require mandatory coverage in case visitors fall...

CAB demands regulation to check wide use of trans fats in food

FE Report 2021-03-07 18:26:45

The Consumers Association of Bangladesh (CAB) Sunday submit a memorandum to the Bangladesh Food Safety Authority to prevent the unhealthy use of trans fats in foods. The consumer rights organisation...

'DPP-4 inhibitors for Covid-19 patients with diabetes might reduce mortality’

-- 2021-03-06 17:32:17

The use of DPP-4 inhibitors for Covid-19 patients with diabetes might significantly lower the probability of all-cause mortality and severe manifestations of Covid-19. Endocrinologist Dr Md Feroz Ami...

Obesity a driving factor in coronavirus deaths, finds study

REUTERS 2021-03-04 21:33:33

The majority of global Covid-19 deaths have been in countries where many people are obese, with coronavirus fatality rates 10 times higher in nations where at least 50 per cent of adults are overweigh...

When will children be able to get Covid-19 vaccines?

Associated Press 2021-03-04 17:17:43

When will children be able to get Covid-19 vaccines? It depends on the child's age, but some teenagers could be rolling up their sleeves before too long. The Pfizer vaccine already is cleared for us...

How a changing virus is reshaping scientists’ views on COVID-19

-- 2021-03-04 14:44:31

Chris Murray, a University of Washington disease expert whose projections on COVID-19 infections and deaths are closely followed worldwide, is changing his assumptions about the course of the pandemic...

Global COVID-19 infections rise for first time in seven weeks

-- 2021-03-02 20:27:14

The number of new coronavirus infections globally rose last week for the first time in seven weeks, the World Health Organization has said. “We need to have a stern warning for all of us: that...

One in four people may suffer from hearing loss by 2050: WHO

-- 2021-03-02 15:03:10

Nearly 2.5 billion people worldwide ─ or 1 in 4 people ─ will be living with some degree of hearing loss by 2050, warns the World Health Organization’s (WHO) first World Report on Hearing, relea...

US approves Johnson & Johnson’s single-dose Covid vaccine

-- 2021-02-28 09:01:59

The US government on Saturday authorised Johnson & Johnson’s single-dose Covid-19 vaccine, enabling millions more Americans to be vaccinated in the coming weeks and setting the vaccine up fo...

Pfizer-BioNTech testing booster of their COVID-19 vaccine in new trial

Reuters 2021-02-25 21:01:08

Pfizer Inc and BioNTech SE said on Thursday they are testing a third dose of their COVID-19 vaccine to better understand the immune response against new variants of the virus. They are also in talks...