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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

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

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

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

AMADER PROCHESTA: Creating awareness on COVID-19 and Diabetes

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
20 June 2020, 18:00 PM

COVID-19: steroid lowered mortality and potential drug-drug interaction

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.
20 June 2020, 18:00 PM

Diabetes care during COVID-19

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.
20 June 2020, 18:00 PM

Long-term care for recovered COVID-19 patients

The COVID-19 is an ongoing pandemic of coronavirus disease caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS‑CoV‑2).
20 June 2020, 18:00 PM

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

WHO hails virus steroid as ‘lifesaving scientific breakthrough’

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.
17 June 2020, 07:20 AM

How will Bangladesh fare with the Coronavirus Pandemic?

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.
16 June 2020, 18:00 PM

YPF and Platform underscores investment in home grown research for better Covid-19 response

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.
15 June 2020, 14:15 PM

Vitamin C and COVID-19 infection

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.
13 June 2020, 18:00 PM

Discharged COVID-19 patients without symptoms often have positive SARS-CoV-2 PCR tests

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.
13 June 2020, 18:00 PM

Is herd immunity on COVID-19 hard to achieve?

Herd immunity is a concept based on the body’s immune resistance to the spread of a contagious disease within a population.
13 June 2020, 18:00 PM

COVID-19 questions relating to consumers

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.
13 June 2020, 18:00 PM

Boosting immunity to protect from COVID-19

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.
13 June 2020, 18:00 PM