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Nobel for Hepatitis C virus

Honouring three medical scientists with the Nobel Medicine Prize 2020 for their homing in on the Hepatitis C has been widely acclaimed as a landmark achievement on the part of the Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet. Awards like this will, undoubtedly, help the Nobel Committee regain a remarkable amount of...

Preparing for the 'second wave'

None but the head of the government has very recently raised the issue of a possible 'second wave' of Covid in the coming winter and the preparations to tackle it.She made it clear that this time the focus is on ensuring oxygen supply and intensive care facilities---two prerequisites for treating...

Nurturing mental health of children

One of the greatest challenges before parents of children these days is to nurture healthy growth of minds in healthy bodies of their young ones. The problem started with the breakdown of joint families, only more so where a couple lives in cities and towns detached and uprooted from their...

In search of new overseas job market

Bangladeshi migrant workers are still struggling to resume work or go back to conventional destination countries such as Saudi Arabia, Qatar, the UAE, Malaysia and Singapore. Many of the workers have returned home since the outbreak of the Covid-19 and more remained jobless and stranded abroad. Those employing countries have...

Can we trust vitamin A capsules?

Like other conscious parents, I have recently taken my 17-month-old daughter to a school in Jatrabari to give her a vitamin A capsule. But, she fell seriously ill around three hours after she was administered the capsule.On October 6, my daughter was given the capsule around 1:00pm, Then, I took...

Helping university students

Many of us, as final-year students of a public university, are worried about our future. As the educational institutions remained closed since mid-March to limit the transmission of coronavirus, we are yet to take the Master's final exam which was due in April. Given the financial constraints many of us...