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-- 2020-10-13 20:45:47
The case of a man in the United States infected twice with COVID-19 shows there is much yet to learn about immune responses and also raises questions over vaccination, scientists said on Tuesday. The...
BBC 2020-10-13 16:34:05
The head of the World Health Organization (WHO) has turned down a herd immunity response to Covid-19 pandemic, reports the BBC. Herd immunity occurs when a large portion of a community becomes immune...
Reuters 2020-10-13 10:20:46
Johnson & Johnson said on Monday it had temporarily paused its Covid-19 vaccine candidate clinical trials due to an unexplained illness in a study participant, delaying one of the highest profile...
-- 2020-10-12 22:57:07
The global COVID-19 pandemic can be overcome quickly if countries use the right tools, the head of the World Health Organization said on Monday, but warned that if those tools were not used it would r...
-- 2020-10-12 10:48:30
The virus responsible for Covid-19 can remain infectious on surfaces such as banknotes, phone screens and stainless steel for 28 days, researchers say. The findings from Australia's national science...
-- 2020-10-11 16:59:59
Seven new dengue cases were reported in the last 24 hours until Sunday morning, the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) said. Seventeen dengue patients are currently undergoing treatment at...
FE Online Report 2020-10-10 19:25:07
About 74 per cent of the Bangladeshi migrant workers are facing mental stress following impact of Coronavirus pandemic, according to a Brac study. The leading development organisation conducted the s...
-- 2020-10-10 18:58:48
Many nurses caring for COVID-19 patients are suffering burn-out or psychological distress, and many have faced abuse or discrimination outside of work, the International Council of Nurses (ICN) has sa...
AP 2020-10-10 17:06:21
They are not cures and it is not likely that everyone will be able to get them as President Donald Trump has suggested but experimental antibody drugs like the one Trump was given are among the most p...
SAJIBUR RAHMAN 2020-10-10 15:54:09
Almost 90 per cent of the country’s mental health patients are not getting proper healthcare services, according to the director of National Institute of Mental Health and Hospital (NIMH). Prof...
ISMAIL HOSSAIN 2020-10-10 09:52:26
The ongoing Covid-19 pandemic is forcing many children and youths to go for excessive use of screen time, which could cause an adverse impact on their mental and physical health both in the short and...
REUTERS 2020-10-07 12:03:09
Drugmakers and research centres around the world are working on Covid-19 vaccines, with large global trials of several of the candidates involving tens of thousands of participants well underway. As...
-- 2020-10-06 20:44:28
Director-General of World Health Organization Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus on Tuesday said a vaccine against COVID-19 may be ready by year-end. However, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus did not give elaborat...
Reuters 2020-10-06 20:34:33
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. Breathing with...
-- 2020-10-06 11:03:03
US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on Monday said Covid-19 can spread through virus lingering in the air, sometimes for hours, acknowledging concerns widely voiced by public health ex...
Reuters 2020-10-05 20:59:31
Roughly 1 in 10 people may have been infected with the novel coronavirus, leaving the vast majority of the world’s population vulnerable to the related COVID-19 disease, the World Health Organiz...
-- 2020-10-05 20:29:41
Tuberculosis, a highly infectious disease, remains a major public health threat in the country with 99,000 cases reported in the first six months of this year, data show while an estimated 247 cases p...
UNB 2020-10-05 17:59:16
The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted or halted critical mental health services in 93 per cent of countries worldwide while the demand for mental health is increasing, according to a new WHO survey. Th...
UNB 2020-10-04 18:27:21
Here's one bit of advice for those who solely rely on a cup of strong, black coffee to galvanise them into action in mornings after a bad night's sleep - the drink on an empty stomach can have a negat...
-- 2020-10-03 17:08:48
A by-product of a process called hydrogenation that is used to turn healthy oils into solids, Trans Fatty Acid (TFA), commonly known as trans fat, has now emerged as a deadly threat to life on Earth a...
Jubair Hasan 2020-10-03 10:29:57
Bangladeshi lone coronavirus vaccine candidate Globe Biotech has achieved another much-needed milestone, as a globally recognised journal has certified its 'BANCOVID' scientifically okay for human t...
Reuters 2020-10-02 13:28:43
A major non-profit health emergencies group has set up a global laboratory network to assess data from potential Covid-19 vaccines, allowing scientists and drugmakers to compare them and speed up sele...
Reuters 2020-10-01 11:17:25
The US Food and Drug Administration has broadened its investigation of a serious illness in AstraZeneca Plc’s Covis-19 vaccine study and will look at data from earlier trials of similar vaccines...
-- 2020-09-30 19:36:45
Results from an early safety study of Moderna Inc’s coronavirus vaccine candidate in older adults showed that it produced virus-neutralising antibodies at levels similar to those seen in younger...
-- 2020-09-29 17:02:23
The World Health Organization (WHO) said on Tuesday that one million deaths from COVID-19 was “a very sad milestone”, after many victims suffered “a terribly difficult and lonely dea...
-- 2020-09-29 16:34:02
Breast milk may help protect babies from being infected by the novel coronavirus, a new study suggests, reports Daily Mail. Researchers at a lab in China found that mother's milk prevented the pathog...
-- 2020-09-29 10:14:23
As there is an apprehension that Bangladesh may witness the resurgence of Covid-19 in the coming winter, health experts say educating people, encouraging them to follow health safety rules, ensuring a...
-- 2020-09-29 09:55:46
Some 120 million rapid diagnostic tests for coronavirus will be made available to low- and middle-income countries at a maximum of $5 each, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Monday. The wid...
-- 2020-09-26 11:42:38
A single dose of Johnson & Johnson's experimental Covid-19 vaccine produced a strong immune response against the novel coronavirus in an early-to-mid stage clinical trial, according to interim res...
-- 2020-09-24 21:47:22
The first study to analyse the structure of the novel coronavirus from two waves of infection in a major city found that a more contagious strain dominates recent samples, researchers from Houston Met...
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