-- 2020-05-24 21:12:56
First indications of the effectiveness of a potential vaccine against coronavirus may be available in the autumn, the head of the GAVI vaccine alliance told a Swiss newspaper, forecasting a long road...
REUTERS 2020-05-24 13:51:51
The US National Institutes of Health (NIH) on Friday said that data from its trial of Gilead Sciences Inc’s remdesivir show that the drug offers the most benefit for COVID-19 patients who need e...
BBC 2020-05-23 16:17:55
UK scientists are to begin testing a treatment that it is hoped could counter the effects of Covid-19 in the most seriously ill patients. It has been found those with the most severe form of the dise...
-- 2020-05-23 13:52:44
As the world grapples with a rising number of coronavirus cases and deaths with a vaccine still far off, researchers are now betting on Convalescent Plasma Therapy (CPT) for saving lives of COVID-19 p...
-- 2020-05-22 23:57:30
A coronavirus vaccine tested for the first time in humans is safe and induces a rapid immune response, researchers at China's CanSino Biologics Inc reported on Friday in The Lancet medical journal. B...
-- 2020-05-22 21:06:19
University of Oxford researchers working on a vaccine to protect against coronavirus on Friday confirmed that they are moving to the next level as they begin recruiting over 10,000 people for the seco...
-- 2020-05-22 20:26:07
Malaria drug hydroxychloroquine, touted by US President Donald Trump, was tied to increased risk of death in a study in 96,000 COVID-19 patients, according to a paper published in the Lancet. Accordi...
-- 2020-05-22 17:57:15
Britain put on trial a just-invented mechanism that could identify coronavirus infection in 20 minutes time on the spot, without sending samples to laboratories UK Health Secretary Matt Hancock has s...
REUTERS 2020-05-22 10:11:38
The United States has secured almost a third of the first 1.0 billion doses planned for AstraZeneca's experimental COVID-19 vaccine by pledging up to $1.2 billion, as world powers scramble for medicin...
FE Online Desk 2020-05-21 23:12:39
Sera, popular water tank brand of RFL Group, has donated dustbins to National Institute of Cardiovascular Diseases (NICVD). Officials of Sera Water Tank handed over the dustbins to Dr. Ashraful Hoque...
FE Online Desk 2020-05-21 18:07:07
Beximco Pharmaceuticals on Thursday announced the launch of Remdesivir, an antiviral drug which has recently been given US FDA “Emergency Use Authorisation” for treatment of COVID-19...
-- 2020-05-20 19:46:17
US immunotherapy company Inovio Pharmaceuticals Inc on Wednesday said its experimental vaccine to prevent coronavirus infection was shown to produce protective antibodies and immune system responses i...
Global Times 2020-05-20 16:37:49
China's economic planner, the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC), and two other government ministries on Wednesday issued a plan that requires every province in China to set up at least...
FE Online Desk 2020-05-20 14:26:19
Burger King shared a set of iftar meal with all the frontliners of Kurmitola General Hospital, Mugda Medical College and Hospital and Kuwait-Bangladesh Friendship Government Hospital. “It was...
-- 2020-05-19 20:20:34
World Health Organization member states agreed to an independent probe into the UN agency's COVID-19 response as US criticism mounted over its handling of the pandemic. Countries taking part in the W...
-- 2020-05-19 20:04:39
There are tentative signs that children may not spread the novel coronavirus as much as adults, two top epidemiologists said on Tuesday, though they cautioned that the bad news was that human immunity...
-- 2020-05-19 18:08:41
Rajshahi Medical College Hospital has launched its second Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) testing lab to detect COVID-19 infection. “The lab was formally inaugurated in the afternoon by testing...
-- 2020-05-18 19:40:28
The head of the World Health Organisation (WHO) said on Monday that he would initiate an independent evaluation of its handling of the coronavirus pandemic at the ‘earliest appropriate moment&rs...
-- 2020-05-18 19:31:21
The United Kingdom has added the loss of smell and taste to its official list of COVID-19 symptoms including fever and new continuous cough - a step that it hopes could help pick up about 2 per cent m...
-- 2020-05-18 19:26:09
Moderna Inc said on Monday its experimental COVID-19 vaccine produced antibodies that could "neutralise" the new coronavirus in patients in a small early stage clinical trial, sending its shares up 25...
-- 2020-05-18 13:55:14
The Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University has introduced an online appointment system to lessen the suffering of patients and contain the risks of contagion from the waiting service seekers amid...
-- 2020-05-17 17:50:41
A Bangladeshi medical team has said they found combination of two widely used drugs to have yielded ‘astounding’ results in curing patients with acute COVID-19 symptoms amid desperate glob...
-- 2020-05-16 18:16:15
Gilead Sciences Inc's two clinical studies of its potential coronavirus treatment remdesivir will wind down by the end of May, closing off a path of patient access to the antiviral medication, accordi...
FE Online Desk 2020-05-15 22:35:49
BRAC Bank has contributed 1,000 pieces of imported face shields to Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP), says a press release. The contribution came on to help DMP ensure the safety of police pers...
-- 2020-05-15 20:48:28
World’s No.2 cigarette company British American Tobacco said on Friday it was ready to test its potential COVID-19 vaccine using proteins from tobacco leaves on humans, after it generated a posi...
-- 2020-05-15 16:10:21
Any vaccine to fight the new coronavirus will not be ready for use for at least two years, the chief executive of Swiss pharmaceutical company Novartis , which no longer makes vaccines itself, told a...
FE Online Desk 2020-05-14 17:37:36
Qatar Airways will give away 100,000 free tickets to frontline healthcare professionals to say thank you for their heroic work looking after people during the current COVID-19 pandemic. By maintainin...
UNB 2020-05-14 13:03:20
Oxfam has urged governments and pharmaceutical companies to guarantee that vaccines, tests, and treatments will be patent-free and equitably distributed to all nations and people. The agency made the...
-- 2020-05-14 12:03:24
People holed up at their homes for weeks during the general holiday meant to prevent the spread of coronavirus are exposed to mental health issues because of their over-dependence on gadgets and elect...
-- 2020-05-14 10:38:14
Scores of UK and US children have been affected by a rare inflammatory disease linked to coronavirus. A number of children have also been diagnosed with the disease - which can cause symptoms similar...
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