All data can become health data!

Digitally tracking people’s everyday activities creates a “digital health footprint” that puts one’s privacy at risk, according to a JAMA Network Open study.
11 July 2020, 18:00 PM

Antibiotic resistance:an ignored enemy in COVID-19

The COVID-19 pandemic has already brought the world to its knees.
11 July 2020, 18:00 PM

Strengthen immunity and fight coronavirus

Fears about coronavirus have prompted online searches and plenty of misinformation about how to strengthen the immune system. As worries grow about the new coronavirus, online searches for ways to bolster the immune system have surged.
11 July 2020, 18:00 PM

Scientists warn of potential wave of Covid-linked brain damage

Scientists has warned of a potential wave of coronavirus-related brain damage as new evidence suggested Covid-19 can lead to severe neurological complications, including inflammation, psychosis and delirium.
8 July 2020, 04:55 AM

WHO halts hydroxychloroquine, HIV drugs in Covid trials

The World Health Organization (WHO) has said that it was discontinuing its trials of the malaria drug hydroxychloroquine and combination HIV drug lopinavir/ritonavir in hospitalised patients with Covid-19 after they failed to reduce mortality.
5 July 2020, 04:35 AM

How long am I contagious?

Flu: You can actually infect someone before you start feeling symptoms of the flu. You are most contagious in the 3 to 4 days after you start to feel
4 July 2020, 18:00 PM

Loneliness and mental health in young people: possible effects of COVID-19 lockdowns

In a survey performed during the pandemic, fully one-third of adolescents reported high levels of loneliness. To determine whether measures for disease containment might portend future mental health problems,
4 July 2020, 18:00 PM

Why is it so hard to stop the spread of the coronavirus?

Stopping the pandemic depends on the actions of each and every one of us, especially as cities and states work to open back up. Many of us are the silent spreaders; but others, who are not infected, also play a pivotal role in ending or continuing this pandemic.
4 July 2020, 18:00 PM

Routine vaccination of children in COVID-19

Recently many parents are seeking advice from doctors regarding routine vaccination of children in the COVID-19 pandemic.
4 July 2020, 18:00 PM

The experience of fighting COVID-19 by QR codes

Our everyday schedule has been altogether subject to the advanced mobile phone applications. Furthermore, this has been the truth for a huge number of individuals in China since halfway through the Coronavirus emergency — and it could yet remain as such for years to come, as the nation fights to recoup from it.
4 July 2020, 18:00 PM

DGHS says it is monitoring whether hospitals deny treatment to patients

The Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) has submitted a compliance report to the High Court, saying it is monitoring whether hospitals across the country are refusing to provide treatment to any patient infected with Covid-19 or other ailments.
2 July 2020, 07:31 AM

Chinese researchers warn of new virus in pigs with human pandemic risk

A new flu virus found in Chinese pigs has become more infectious to humans and needs to be watched closely in case it becomes a potential "pandemic virus", a study says, although experts say there is no imminent threat.
30 June 2020, 05:34 AM

The immunity puzzle during COVID-19: jigsaw pieces for our immune system

As the pandemic stretches on, our online feed is overflowing with “quick fixes” to boost our immunity.
27 June 2020, 18:00 PM

Pulse oximetry in outpatients with COVID-19

Hypoxemia out of proportion to respiratory effort — “silent hypoxemia” — has been reported in patients with COVID-19. Given the lack of understanding of reliable predictors of severity in patients with COVID-19 who may appear well enough to be discharged,
27 June 2020, 18:00 PM

A rare childhood disease linked to COVID-19

COVID-19 has affected people of all age groups but has been found more commonly in older adults and with significantly worse impacts.
27 June 2020, 18:00 PM

The experience of COVID-19 and the first plasma donation

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
27 June 2020, 18:00 PM

Update on the risk factors of COVID-19

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.
27 June 2020, 18:00 PM

icddr,b to begin Covid-19 testing from June 26, per test at Tk 3,500

icddr,b’s globally recognised diagnostic centre at Mohakhali, Dhaka will offer SARS CoV-2 tests to suspected coronavirus patients, starting from June 26.
24 June 2020, 09:35 AM

Synopsis of thoughts on impact of COVID-19

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.
20 June 2020, 18:00 PM

Refugee camps vulnerable to COVID-19 outbreaks

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.
20 June 2020, 18:00 PM