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.

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.

As the pandemic stretches on, our online feed is overflowing with “quick fixes” to boost our immunity.

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,

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

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

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.

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.