FE Online Desk 2020-06-22 21:58:19
To safeguard the frontline health activists against Corona, "Dettol Harpic Porichchonno Bangladesh" has distributed disinfectants and cleaning materials to Dhaka North City Corporation, Dhaka Sou...
REUTERS 2020-06-22 09:43:32
The World Health Organization reported a record increase in global coronavirus cases on Sunday, with the total rising by 183,020 in a 24-hour period. The biggest increase was from North and South Ame...
-- 2020-06-19 22:01:42
The coronavirus pandemic is accelerating, with Thursday's 150,000 new cases the highest in a single day and nearly half of them in the Americas, the World Health Organization (WHO) said, reports Reute...
-- 2020-06-19 14:59:06
Doctors in Bangladesh are leaning toward using plasma therapy for treating the severe cases of Covid-19 as it proved 'fruitful' in most cases, bdnews24.com reports. Despite the increased use of the t...
FE Online Desk 2020-06-19 13:52:38
Unilever Bangladesh donated BiPAP breathing machines to SAJIDA Foundation. Shamima Akhter, Head- Corporate Affairs, Partnerships & Communications of Unilever Bangladesh handed over the BiPAP Brea...
-- 2020-06-18 20:26:30
The World Health Organisation hopes hundreds of millions of doses of coronavirus vaccine can be produced this year and two billion doses by the end of 2021, chief scientist Soumya Swaminathan said on...
-- 2020-06-17 23:22:54
The World Health Organisation said on Wednesday that testing of the malaria drug hydroxychloroquine in its large multi-country trial of treatments for COVID-19 patients had been halted after results f...
FE Online Desk 2020-06-17 15:50:21
City Bank has donated a high flow nasal cannula machine to Chattogram General Hospital (CGH) to facilitate treatment of corona virus disease (Covid-19) patient. The machine is donated as part of phil...
-- 2020-06-16 20:14:25
A cheap and widely available drug can help save the lives of patients seriously ill with coronavirus. The low-dose steroid treatment dexamethasone is a major breakthrough in the fight against the dea...
REUTERS 2020-06-16 13:29:03
The US Food and Drug Administration on Monday revoked its emergency use authorisation for hydroxychloroquine to treat Covid-19, but quickly came under fire from President Donald Trump, who said only U...
FE Online Desk 2020-06-15 21:58:18
Country's leading internet service provider, ADN Telecom Limited along with Chinese company, Genew Corporation has donated 12,000 face masks to protect the health of the officers and employees of va...
-- 2020-06-14 19:45:12
The Indian health ministry has recommended use of anti-viral drug remdesivir under emergency use authorisation to treat COVID-19 patients in moderate stage as the country emerged as fourth worst-hit n...
-- 2020-06-14 18:26:46
The government has moved to blacklist 14 suppliers with ties to alleged graft in equipment and machinery procurement for medical colleges and hospitals. Recommended by the Anti-Corruption Commission,...
-- 2020-06-14 16:49:35
The visiting Chinese medical experts have said the use of Ritonavir, Resochin, Ribavirin, and Arbidol can be effective to a great extent as they talk about specific medicine for the coronavirus. They...
Reuters 2020-06-14 16:30:28
New research offers reassuring evidence to hundreds of millions of people with high blood pressure that popular anti-hypertension drugs do not put them at greater risk from COVID-19 as some experts ha...
REUTERS 2020-06-14 13:26:20
AstraZeneca Plc has signed a contract with European governments to supply the region with its potential vaccine against the coronavirus, the British drugmaker’s latest deal to pledge its drug to...
REUTERS 2020-06-13 10:43:03
Requiring the wearing of masks to prevent the spread of the novel coronavirus in areas at the epicentre of the global pandemic may have prevented tens of thousands of infections, a new study suggests....
FE Online Desk 2020-06-12 22:01:40
To address how the healthcare sector in Bangladesh can thrive amid this global pandemic, eGeneration recently organised a webinar titled “Reimagine Healthcare: Save Lives wit...
FE ONLINE DESK 2020-06-11 17:56:28
Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal has proposed an increased allocation for the health and family welfare sector in the budget proposed for the fiscal year 2020-21, giving priority to activities under...
-- 2020-06-11 10:57:18
Eli Lilly and Co could have a drug specifically designed to treat Covid-19 authorised for use as early as September if all goes well with either of two antibody therapies it is testing, its chief scie...
-- 2020-06-10 18:51:58
‘Shohojoddha’ a plasma network has been initiated by the ICT division, Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS), a2i Innovation Lab and eGeneration to facilitate the collection...
FE Online Desk 2020-06-09 17:37:15
The Rotary Medical Support Center continues its services to patients during the ongoing pandemic under the supervision of Md. Rubayet Hossain, Governor of Rotary International District 3281 for...
-- 2020-06-09 10:36:21
New coronavirus cases had their biggest daily increase ever as the pandemic worsens globally and has yet to peak in central America, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Monday, urging countrie...
-- 2020-06-08 15:03:31
Newly appointed Bangladesh ODI captain and a bright son of the port city of Chattogram Tamim Iqbal continued his support to the people affected by the coronavirus pandemic. In his latest...
-- 2020-06-07 18:30:22
International Organization for Migration (IOM) along with the collaboration of two local non-government organisations of the district administration will produce 100,000 bottles of 200 ml hand sanitiz...
FE Online Desk 2020-06-07 00:05:28
The FBCCI has handed over personal protective equipment (masks, PPEs, face shields and gloves) to the Economic Reporters Forum (ERF). Sheikh Fazle Fahim, president of the apex trade body, handed over...
-- 2020-06-06 23:19:28
Global cases of the novel coronavirus topped 7 million on Saturday, as case numbers surge in Brazil and India. About 30 per cent of those cases, or 2 million infections, are in the United States. Lat...
-- 2020-06-06 18:55:56
Physicians from Bangladesh Medical College Hospital (BMCH), led by Dr Tarek Alam, claimed that a combination of the anti-parasitic drug ‘ivermectin’ with antibiotic ‘Doxycycline&rsqu...
FHM HUMAYAN KABIR 2020-06-06 09:55:22
With only 399 ICU (intensive care unit) beds available for critical Covid-19 patients, the country's health sector appears ill-prepared to deal with the rising number of infected cases, according to i...
FE Report 2020-06-06 09:48:03
Bangladesh Society of Medicine (BSM) has recently launched a dedicated 24-hour telemedicine service for the Covid-19 patients, who are undergoing treatment at different healthcare facilities or from t...
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