Dr. Muhammad Torequl Islam :The world’s most common arbovirus infection, dengue, causes an estimated 50 to 100 million new infections,...
Dr. Liji Thomas, MD :The current COVID-19 pandemic, which ‘officially’ began in Wuhan, China, in late December 2019, has spread...
Health Desk :While the optimization of conventional microelectronics is slowly reaching its physical limits, nature offers us a blueprint how...
Dr.AnanyaMandal, MD :Researchers from Queensland University of Technology and Oxford University are working in collaboration to begin human clinical trials...
Rachel Schraer : People with symptomless Covid-19 can carry as much of the virus as those with symptoms, a South Korean study has suggested.South Korea was able to identify and isolate asymptomatic cases through mass testing as early as the start of March.There is mounting evidence these cases represent a considerable proportion of coronavirus infections.But the researchers weren’t able to say how much these people actually passed the virus on.People with a positive coronavirus test were monitored in a community...
Staff Reporter:Dr. Md. Anisul Islam Khan, Senior Consultant and Coordinator, Department of Neurosurgery, Evercare Hospital Chattogram, has successfully performed cranioplasty...
Mehedi Hasan Bappy :The world is facing a global pandemic situation for coronavirus disease (COVID-19) there has no preventive medicine available yet. The World Health Organization (WHO) has advised everyone to eat more fruits and vegetables to boost immunity at this pandemic. So people of developing countries like Bangladesh can take advantage by including available seasonal fruits in the diet to boost up their immunity. In Bangladesh, May-July are specially called as fruit festival months when almost all the major...
According to a recently conducted nationwide survey, the burden of asthma is estimated to be around 18 million in India. The study also highlighted the growing incidence of asthma and its challenges. The complexity of the underlying clinical condition and poor response to medications in a subset of patients are reasons of concern in managing the disease.People suffering from long-standing asthma have worsening respiratory symptoms and severe asthma attacks which may be fatal. Assessing and achieving a control on asthma...
CARE Bangladesh has initiated response and recovery as it is working closely with the government functionaries to help it address the ongoing floods.Heavy monsoon rains in the upstream regions and incessant onrush of water from upstream over the last weeks inundated 21 northern, north-eastern and south-eastern districts in Bangladesh affecting over 3.3 million people, a CARE press release said.The flood situation is deteriorating at a time when many are still reeling from the shock of Cyclone Amphan that damaged houses,...
Dr. Muhammad Torequl Islam :The use of hand sanitizers is expected in health care where there is not enough opportunity to wash hands with soap/detergent and water. Needless to say, one of the first steps taken to prevent novel coronavirus (also called severe acute respiratory distress syndrome coronavirus 2 or SARS-CoV-2) infection is to use regular soap/detergent or hand sanitizers in accordance with the health rules. The World Health Organization (WHO) has clarified the components of hand sanitizers (e.g., ethanol,...
Dr. Muhammad Torequl Islam :Herd immunity (HdI) is the indirect protection from infection conferred to susceptible individuals when a sufficiently large proportion of immune individuals exist in a population. The time to reach HdI of a community depends on the reproduction number (R0). It means the average number of people that a single infected person with the virus can infect those aren’t already immune. The higher the R0, the more people need to be resistant to reach HdI. According to...
Dr. Muhammad Torequl Islam :Development of a vaccine is a lengthy and expensive process. Due to high attrition, it takes...