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Nipah was first identified about 25 years ago in Malaysia and has led to outbreaks in Bangladesh, India, and Singapore. The University of Oxford said on Thursday it had begun human testing of an experimental vaccine against the brain-swelling Nipah virus that led to outbreaks in India’s Kerala state and …

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Monday authorized updated COVID-19 vaccines from Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna that target a recently circulating Omicron variant of the coronavirus, paving the way for the launch later this week of a fall vaccination campaign. A third shot, made by Novavax, is still under …

(Obaidur Masum): A 2022 guideline issued by Bangladeshi health authorities advised dengue patients to drink at least 8 to 10 glasses (approximately 2 liters) of liquid a day, in the form of either milk, juice, oral saline, barley, or fresh coconut water. Dengue patients suffer from dehydration, which is why …

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Friday approved Biogen and Sage Therapeutics’ oral pill to treat postpartum depression (PPD) in adults. The companies had sought the FDA’s approval for the drug, Zurzuvae, to treat major depressive disorder (MDD), or clinical depression, as well as postpartum depression, which affects …

(Rajon Pandit): A mobile court of Chittagong District Administration on Saturday fined medicine seller RK Pharmacy TK 20,000 for selling doctors’ sample medicines, date-expired medicines, and unapproved Indian medicines. Deputy Revenue Collector and Executive Magistrate of Chittagong District Administration Mohammad Ruhul Amin led the mobile court at the city’s Dewan …

The sale of contraband Indian drugs like phensedyl, hemp, heroin, and yaba is going on unabated in the Kushtia district. Various drugs were smuggled into the country from India, targeting the Pahela Boishakh. Officials of the Department of Narcotics Control and other sources informed that smuggling of phensedyl into the …

(Saykot Murtaza): Novo Nordisk, a Danish multinational pharmaceutical company, will observe World Health Day on Thursday to raise awareness about the rise in diabetes and its consequences, said a press release on Wednesday. This year the World Health Organization (WHO) is focusing on diabetes with the slogan, “Beat Diabetes”, as …

For the fifth time, the ‘Pharma Fest-2016’ was held at North South University (NSU) on Monday with the theme ‘Get Solution, Not Just Medication’. With an objective to facilitate students of the Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences of NSU, and those of other renowned universities, to meet leading pharmaceutical companies of …

A team from the Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) rescued a huge amount of government medicine from the Bidirpur region under Godagari upazila in Rajshahi district on Friday. According to the sources, on information, a team of RAB conducted an operation at Bidirpur Madrasah More area at 4 a.m. on Friday …

A parliamentary subcommittee has asked the Hamdard Laboratories (Waqf) Bangladesh authorities to take initiatives for exporting its products, saying those have huge prospects of earning foreign currency. Members of the subcommittee-1 of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Religious Affairs Ministry came up with the call while visiting the Hamdard laboratories …

The Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice (Haia) is opposing the feminization of pharmacies, the Jeddah Chamber of Commerce and Industry (JCCI) confirmed. Haia has objected even if there are barriers between men and women in the shop, and despite pharmacies in malls employing women, Ibrahim …

Roche announced today that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted Breakthrough Therapy Designation for the investigational medicine ocrelizumab (OCREVUSTM) for the treatment of people with primary progressive multiple sclerosis (PPMS). There are currently no approved treatments for PPMS, a debilitating form of MS characterized by steadily worsening …

A team of US nephrologists is developing a first-of-its-kind implantable artificial kidney with microchip filters and living kidney cells that will be powered by a patient’s own heart to help kidney patients. Dr William H. Fissell IV, nephrologist and associate professor of medicine from Tennessee-based Vanderbilt University, is making major …

A mobile court fined five medicine shops and sealed another for selling date expired medicines at Chechua Bazar in Muktagachha upazila of Mymensingh district on Tuesday. The court, led by Dr Umme Afsari Johra, upazila nirbahi officer of Muktagachha, fined four shops Tk 30,000 each and one shop Tk 20,000. …

(Rajon Pandit): Australian police discovered millions of dollars worth of drugs hidden inside a shipment of bras, part of what they said Monday was the country’s biggest ever liquid methamphetamine bust. Officers found more than Aus$1 billion (US$712 million) of the lethally addictive drug — also known as ice — …

The Department of Pharmacy of Northern University Bangladesh (NUB) organized a workshop on ‘Approaches to Pharma-Sector Versatility’ on its premises yesterday. NUB Trust Chairman Prof. Dr. Abu Yousuf Md Abdullah was present on the occasion as the chief guest, while its Head of the Department Prof. Dr. Md Harun Ar …

(Russell Lynch): The drugs giant GlaxoSmithKline was accused on Friday of cheating the NHS and the taxpayer after it was hit with a £37.6m fine for keeping the cost of anti-depressants artificially high. GSK bore the brunt of a total of £45m fines handed out by the Competition and Markets …

To mark World Cancer Day, an international pharmaceutical company- Roche Bangladesh- organized a roundtable at the Bangabandhu International Conference Centre in the capital on Thursday. Cancer specialists Prof Mofazzel Hossain, Prof Selim Reza, Singers Bappa Majumder, John Kabir, Elita Karim, members of cancer survivor family, Roche Bangladesh officials, and media …

(Saykot Murtaza): Spurious medicines are abundant in the markets and the affected people find no respite from those as there is no official initiative to protect them. Two instances of how the patients are suffering from taking the spurious medicines available in the markets are given below. Prof. Dr. Zakaria …

(Jeannette Y. Wick): Chronic kidney disease (CKD) incidence has grown faster than many of its common comorbidities such as diabetes and hypertension, and medications may be an underappreciated driver of this growth. More than 15 million Americans used prescription proton pump inhibitors (PPIs) in 2013. PPIs are often used inappropriately …