Health

Globe Biotech’s Covid-19 vaccine ‘Bancovid’ listed by WHO

The World Health Organisation (WHO) has listed coronavirus or Covid-19 vaccine ‘Bancovid’ of Bangladesh’s Globe Biotech Limited. More to

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Remdesivir has ‘little or no effect’ on Covid-19 mortality: WHO study

Shawdesh Desk: The antiviral drug remdesivir, considered one of the most promising Covid-19 treatments, turns out to do little to prevent deaths from the disease, according to a WHO-backed study.

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BCG: Can a vaccine from 1921 save lives from Covid-19?

Shawdesh Desk: Scientists in the UK have begun testing the BCG vaccine, developed in 1921, to see if it can save lives from Covid. The vaccine was designed to stop

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All you need to know about Endometriosis

Shawdesh desk: Endometriosis is a painful disorder in which the tissues similar to the inner lining of the uterus or endometrium grow outside the uterus. It is a long term

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Globe Biotech wants to make Covid vaccine available by Jan

Shawdesh desk: Claiming that they have got very promising results from pre-clinical trials on rabbits and mice of the coronavirus vaccine styled ‘BNCOVID’ developed by it, Bangladesh’s Globe Biotech Ltd

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‘Sensor to rapidly detect coronavirus infection developed’

Shawdesh dEsk: Scientists have developed a new type of Covid-19 test that combines multiple kinds of data using a low-cost sensor to analyse small volumes of saliva or blood in

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Vaccine: Dhaka, Delhi agree ‘in principle’ agree to start phase-III trials in Bangladesh

Shawdesh Desk: Bangladesh and India have “agreed in principle” to go for the clinical trials of Covid-19 vaccines in Bangladesh soon after India launches these trials there. Indian External Affairs

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Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine produces strong immune response in early trial

Shawdesh desk: A single dose of Johnson & Johnson’s experimental COVID-19 vaccine produced a strong immune response against the novel coronavirus in an early-to-mid stage clinical trial, according to interim

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