COVID-19 has affected people of all age groups but has been found more commonly in older adults and with significantly worse impacts.

I am a doctor at a COVID-19 dedicated hospital where I kept serving during this pandemic without bowing down to my family’s weary of constant

With COVID-19 cases rising in the young population, the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has a clear message for all adults: when it comes to age, there is no bright line for risk.

icddr,b’s globally recognised diagnostic centre at Mohakhali, Dhaka will offer SARS CoV-2 tests to suspected coronavirus patients, starting from June 26.

Low-dose dexamethasone is associated with reduced mortality risk among patients with severe COVID-19, making it the first drug to show such an effect, according to a statement by trial investigators at the University of Oxford.

People with diabetes are not more likely to get COVID-19 than the general population. The risk of getting very sick from COVID-19 is likely to be lower if diabetes is well-managed.

The COVID-19 is an ongoing pandemic of coronavirus disease caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS‑CoV‑2).

Statistically, a pandemic appears in every 100 years. A living being surviving now has very little possibility to experience any other, if not a second wave of this to follow shortly Our experience rightly recorded can help in the future.

A COVID-19 outbreak in a refugee settlement will likely overwhelm the available healthcare capacity and infrastructure and spread through nearly the entire settlement population if left unchecked, according to a new study published recently in PLOS Medicine by Paul Spiegel of Johns Hopkins University, United States, and colleagues.

A project titled ‘Amader Prochesta’ was launched recently in the capital to create social awareness on COVID-19 and diabetes, says a press release. The project will help healthcare professionals

The World Health Organization has hailed as a “lifesaving scientific breakthrough” the British use of a basic steroid to treat severely ill COVID-19 patients, saving about a third of them.

I am a Bangladeshi-American live in Maryland, USA for 20 years. Maryland is only about 200 miles away from New York city, the epicenter of Coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic.

On June 14th, Youth Policy Forum (YPF) and Platform of Medical & Dental Society collaboratively organised a webinar titled “New Frontiers in Research: Vaccination, Genome Sequencing, and Data-Driven Health Surveillance”, focusing on extensive clinical research strategies in Bangladesh along with abundant data-generation and maintenance of its sovereignty.

Self-defense is the best defense. To protect ourselves from any disease or infection we need to increase our immunity. How can we do that? It is relatively simple and inexpensive. What we need is our desire and a bit of modification of our lifestyle and food habit.

Vitamin C, also called ascorbic acid, is an essential micronutrient for humans. Deficiency of this vitamin results in impaired immunity and higher susceptibility to infections.

After observing that some COVID-19 patients who had recovered and had been discharged were readmitted with positive polymerase chain reaction (PCR) tests, Chinese investigators retested 60 COVID-19 patients who had been discharged to in-home quarantine after hospitalisation.

Herd immunity is a concept based on the body’s immune resistance to the spread of a contagious disease within a population.

Through illness, community and national lockdowns, and economic downturn, the COVID-19 pandemic has turned the lives upside down of billions of people globally. Here are answers to some questions about the COVID-19 pandemic related to consumers.

Five years ago, in an office complex with a giant sculpture of a mosquito just northwest of Phnom Penh, Jessica Manning struck on a novel idea. Rather than spend more years in what felt like a futile search for a malaria vaccine, she would take on all mosquito-borne pathogens at once.

Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal today proposed to form an Integrated Health-Science Research and Development Fund’ of Tk 100 crore to finance the development of research in health-education and science and technology.