The United States, through the US Embassy in Dhaka and the US Agency for International Development (USAID), has delivered 100 state-of-the-art ventilators to Bangladesh that it had pledged earlier to assist the country's fight against Covid-19.

Ahead of World Diabetes Day on November 14, The Lancetpublished a new report calling for action to close the gap in diabetes prevention and care. Worldwide, 463 million people have diabetes, with 80% from low-income and middle- income countries (LMICs). In 2019, 4.2 million people died as a result of the condition and its complications.

The fourth Bangladesh International Medical Students’ Scientific Congress (BIMSSCON) was held recently with the theme “Healthcare in Pandemic: Integration of Clinical approach with Research and Public Health Education.’ The virtual events were held on 5-8 November 2020.

Type 1 diabetes is one of the most common endocrine and metabolic conditions in childhood and the number of children developing type 1 diabetes is increasing rapidly. According to International Diabetes Federation (IDF) Atlas, more than 1.1 million children and adolescents under 20 years are estimated to have type 1 diabetes worldwide.

More than half of people with acute COVID-19 infection continue to have persistent fatigue 10 weeks after their initial illness, according to a new study published November 9 in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by Liam Townsend of Trinity College Dublin, Ireland and colleagues. Fatigue is

Just as bacteria can evolve resistance to antibiotics, viruses can evolve resistance to vaccines — and the evolution of SARS-CoV-2 could undermine the effectiveness of vaccines that are currently under development,

Yesterday (November 14) was the world diabetes day. The theme World Diabetes Day 2020 is “Diabetes: Nurses make the difference”.

So why did I volunteer to be injected with an experimental vaccine for Covid-19? That's what some of my friends wanted to know when I told them what I was doing.

The government is going to start inspecting approved and unapproved private hospitals and diagnostic centres across the country on an urgent basis, said Abul Bashar Mohammad Khurshid Alam, director general of the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS), today.

The World Health Organization's chief called Monday on everyone to keep fighting Covid-19, warning that while we may be sick of battling the pandemic, the virus is “not tired of us”. Speaking to WHO's main annual assembly, which resumed Monday after being cut short in May, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus also hailed the election of Joe Biden as the next US president, voicing hope it could signal tighter global cooperation to end the pandemic. It was vital, he said, for people to follow the science and resist the urge to turn a blind eye to the virus. “We might be tired of COVID-19. But it is not tired of us,” he said.

Pfizer Inc has said its experimental Covid-19 vaccine is more than 90% effective, a major victory in the fight against a pandemic that has killed more than a million people, battered the world's economy and upended daily life.

The health ministry has issued a show-cause notice to the newly appointed acting director of the Shaheed Suhrawardy Medical College Hospital Dr KM Mamun Morshed for “criticising the transfer order” of former director Dr Uttam Kumar Barua.

Global coronavirus infections have exceeded 50 million, according to a Reuters tally, with a second wave of the virus in the past 30 days accounting for a quarter of the total.

New research from north-west England published in Anaesthesia (a journal of the Association of Anaesthetists) shows that during the first

A randomised, controlled phase 2 trial involving 464 patients failed to show an effect on progression from moderate to severe disease or mortality.

Germs are all around us, both in our environment and in our bodies. When a person is susceptible and they encounter a harmful organism, it can lead to disease and death.

Miscarriage is a common consequence of pregnancy. In most cases, 12-15% of miscarriages occur within 20 weeks of conception. However,

As temperatures fall, people are spending more time indoors. That heightens the risk of the coronavirus spreading, but there are some simple steps you can take to help protect yourself and everyone around you.

The first known reference to cancer or cancer-like diseases in man was documented almost 5,000 years ago. Cancerous disease has been

Adults with type 2 diabetes who drink green tea and coffee — especially in substantial amounts — may have reduced risk for all-cause death, according to a study in BMJ Open Diabetes Research and Care.