-- 2022-06-13 10:37:24
US Food and Drug Administration staff reviewers on Sunday said Pfizer-BioNTech's, Covid-19 vaccines were effective and safe for use in children aged 6 months to 4 years. The FDA reviewers said in bri...
-- 2022-06-10 17:14:56
Diabetes may increase the risk of long Covid-19, new analyses of seven previous studies on the disease suggest. The studies include research that warrants further study to corroborate the findings an...
FE Online 2022-06-09 19:19:11
LIFE Bangladesh, a humanitarian nonprofit organisation dedicated to bringing positive change to society, has begun its journey with Project Mo which aims to ensure menstrual hygiene. The organi...
Hasan Sojib, JU 2022-06-09 19:17:31
Nottingham Trent University (UK), Jahangirnagar University (Bangladesh) and Applied Intelligence and Informatics Lab (AII LAB) organised a workshop and co-design session on ‘Digital Healthcare A...
-- 2022-06-08 23:35:56
The Turkish national, who was admitted to the Infectious Disease Hospital in Dhaka’s Mohakhali on suspicion of having monkeypox, has been under observation a day after he was taken to the facili...
-- 2022-06-08 20:50:01
More than 1,000 monkeypox cases were reported to the World Health Organization in the current outbreak outside the countries in Africa where it more commonly spreads. WHO Director-General Tedros Adha...
-- 2022-06-08 18:17:33
Moderna Inc said on Wednesday its Covid-19 vaccine booster that targets both the original coronavirus strain and omicron produced a better immune response against the variant than its original vaccine...
-- 2022-06-08 10:34:34
Advisers to the US Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday voted overwhelmingly to recommend that the agency authorize Novavax Inc's COVID-19 vaccine for use in adults, which the drugmaker hopes can...
-- 2022-06-07 17:37:20
A foreign national arriving at the Dhaka airport has been kept in isolation at the Infectious Disease Hospital in Mohakhali on suspicion of having monkeypox. “An IEDCR team has collected his sa...
Dr Imtiaz Ahmed 2022-06-07 14:12:31
Eye irritation is a common phenomenon. This is an umbrella term referring to uncomfortable feelings in the eye, namely itchiness, dryness, grittiness or pain. There are many things that can lead to i...
-- 2022-06-06 23:04:23
Pfizer Inc said on Monday it would spend $120 million to expand manufacturing of its COVID-19 antiviral treatment at its Michigan plant, as demand ramps up. Use of the pill, Paxlovid, authorised to t...
-- 2022-06-06 19:40:26
Around 30 countries where monkeypox is not endemic have reported outbreaks of the viral disease, with more than 780 confirmed or suspected infections mostly in Europe. Monkeypox, which spreads throug...
Dr Imtiaz Ahmed 2022-06-04 12:36:39
Most of us believe that we should only go to a hospital or clinic when we need treatment. This should not be the case, as a healthy person keeps in touch with the physician. Why? Because the physicia...
-- 2022-06-03 19:49:24
Diagnostic companies are racing to develop tests for monkeypox, hoping to tap into a new market as governments ramp up efforts to trace the world's first major outbreak of the viral infection outside...
-- 2022-06-02 13:45:50
Outbreaks of endemic diseases such as monkeypox and lassa fever are becoming more persistent and frequent, the World Health Organization's emergencies director, Mike Ryan, warned on Wednesday, reports...
-- 2022-06-01 19:28:08
Health Minister Zahid Maleque on Wednesday said the government has initiated a drive against unauthorised clinics, diagnostic centres and private hospitals across the country for improving the standar...
-- 2022-06-01 17:53:33
Researchers have developed a transparent wearable hyperthermia patch (HTP) for subcutaneous tumour treatment.The soft and skin-mountable HTP has unusual optical and electrical characteristics ba...
Dr Imtiaz Ahmed 2022-06-01 15:25:44
Proton pump inhibitors or PPIs (commonly known as gastric medicine) are one of the most common groups of drugs prescribed worldwide. Drugs like Omeprazole, Pantoprazole etc. have almost become househ...
-- 2022-05-30 18:32:33
The World Health Organization does not believe the monkeypox outbreak outside of Africa will lead to a pandemic, an official said on Monday, adding that it remains unclear whether infected people who...
-- 2022-05-30 10:27:55
The World Health Organization said on Sunday that monkey pox constitutes a "moderate risk" to overall public health at global level after cases were reported in countries where the disease is not typi...
-- 2022-05-28 20:35:45
The government has shut down 23 clinics and diagnostic centres in four districts for running businesses without authorisation. Authorities also fined them and some other private health facilities on...
-- 2022-05-28 18:24:30
Some prominent infectious disease experts are pushing for faster action from global health authorities to contain a growing monkeypox outbreak that has spread to at least 20 countries. They are argui...
-- 2022-05-27 18:19:14
A World Health Organization senior official said on Friday that the priority needs to be containing monkeypox in non-endemic countries, saying that this can be achieved through quick action. Monkeypo...
FE REPORT 2022-05-27 09:05:20
Thalassaemia, an inherited blood disorder that causes human body to have less hemoglobin than normal, can easily be prevented through prohibiting marriage between two carriers, experts said on Thursda...
Dr IMTIAZ AHMED 2022-05-26 16:51:46
Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome, popularly known as PCOS, is one of the hormonal diseases affecting women worldwide. This is often characterised by increased male hormones (i.e. androgens) in women, dev...
-- 2022-05-25 19:46:16
The World Health Organization's (WHO) members re-elected Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus as Director-General by a strong majority for another five years, the president of the World Health Assembly said on...
-- 2022-05-25 10:43:11
The outbreak of monkeypox cases outside of Africa can be contained, the World Health Organization said on Tuesday, as more governments said they would launch limited vaccinations to combat rising infe...
-- 2022-05-24 10:40:36
Drugmakers Pfizer Inc and BioNTech SE said on Monday that three doses of their COVID-19 vaccine generated a strong immune response in children under age 5 and was safe and well-tolerated in their clin...
-- 2022-05-23 17:26:21
Three doses of Pfizer's Covid-19 vaccine offer strong protection for children younger than five, the company announced Monday. Pfizer plans to give the data to US regulators later this week in a step...
Dr Imtiaz Ahmed 2022-05-23 16:03:28
For more than a decade, pathogenic microorganisms are showing a growing trend of resistance to our arsenal of antibiotics. This is known as antimicrobial resistance or AMR. WHO identifies this as one...
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