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.

Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal today proposed to allocate Tk 29,247 crore for the Health Services Division and Health Education and Family Welfare Division in the 2020-21 fiscal year.

In claiming lives and wreaking economic havoc throughout Asia-Pacific, the COVID-19 pandemic places an especially heavy burden on girls and women for reasons including their more limited access to potentially life-saving information, the stress resulting from increases in unpaid care and domestic work, and the loss of income from informal employment.

The corona virus (COVID-19) outbreak has led to the pandemic which has initiated activities and widespread discussion on the clinical aspect but more on its prevention all over the world and advises, suggestions and guidance of thousands of people, including doctors, public health workers, politicians, economists and sociologists are going on every day.

Sleep disruption has been shown to be associated with an increased risk of atherosclerosis, but the mechanism has been unclear.

For people whose genes put them at risk of becoming obese, exclusive breastfeeding as a baby can help ward off weight gain later in life. These findings from a new study were published recently in PLOS Genetics.

An elevated pre-pregnancy HbA1c — which measures average blood glucose concentration — is associated with a higher risk of adverse pregnancy outcomes even in women without known diabetes, according to a new study published recently in PLOS Medicine.

The coronavirus outbreak has become a global problem, creating panic and concern all over the world. The pandemic has restricted movement,

The antiviral drug Favipiravir, better known as Avigan, is being trialed as a treatment for the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19). Avigan is the brand name of the drug Favipiravir, it was developed by the Japanese Fujifilm Toyama Chemical Company, has emerged as a potential drug to treat patients infected with the deadly novel coronavirus.

Regions of Italy with higher family fragmentation and a high number of residential nursing homes experienced the highest rate of COVID-19 infections in people over age 80, according to a new study published recently in the open-access journal PLOS ONE.

New research published in Diabetologia (the journal of the European Association for the Study of Diabetes [EASD]) shows that the higher the number of pregnancy losses a woman has, the higher her risk of developing type 2 diabetes (T2D).

Medical personnel treating coronavirus cases in China have higher rates of anxiety and other mental health symptoms than the general population, according to a new study published recently in the open-access journal PLOS ONE.

The recent pandemic caused by the novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) has caused the death of about 365,000 people throughout the world so far.

A virus is a submicroscopic infectious agent that needs living cells like humans, animals, plants and even other microorganisms including bacteria for budding. Viruses are much smaller than bacteria which contain DNA or RNA genome.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has asked the authorities concerned to engage local representatives more in containing the novel coronavirus in the country.