The National Institute of Kidney Diseases and Urology, or NIKDU, has resumed dialysis seven hours after halting the service, causing sufferings to patients and leading their families to stage protests. The disgruntled families took to the streets in front of NIKDU at Mirpur Road in Sher-e-Bangla Nagar for a demonstration on Wednesday hampering traffic. Indian […]

Malaysia kicked off a COVID-19 mass vaccination programme on Thursday for children aged between 5 and 11, in an effort to protect the youngest members of its population and increase its high immunisation rate. At a vaccination centre in the capital Kuala Lumpur, young children sat anxiously with parents as occasional yelps of pain were […]

The following is a summary of some recent studies on COVID-19. They include research that warrants further study to corroborate the findings and that has yet to be certified by peer review. Alzheimer’s-like changes seen in COVID-19 patients’ brains People who die of severe COVID-19 have brain abnormalities that resemble changes seen in Alzheimer’s disease […]

The prices of drugs used to treat COVID-19 for those at risk of serious illness are “reasonably aligned” with how much they help patients, according to a draft report from drug-pricing research organisation the Institute for Clinical and Economic Review (ICER). The report assessed Pfizer Inc’s Paxlovid and Merck & Co’s molnupiravir – both recently […]

Doug Olson was feeling kind of tired in 1996. When a doctor examined him, she frowned. “I don’t like the feel of those lymph nodes,” she said, poking his neck. She ordered a biopsy. The result was terrifying. He had chronic lymphocytic leukaemia, a blood cancer that mostly strikes older people and accounts for about […]