The Anti-Corruption Commission on Monday decided to launch an inquiry into a syndicate led by Salman F Rahman, vice-chairman of Beximco Pharmaceuticals, over allegations of embezzling Tk聽22,000 crore from the procurement process of COVID vaccines.
The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia-bound migrants and those intending to perform Umrah staged demonstration in Dhaka on Tuesday after failing to receive mandatory meningitis vaccination to travel the Middle East country...
A bombing near a girls鈥� school in western Pakistan killed seven people, including five children, in an attack targeting police guarding polio vaccinators on Friday, officials said.
There are no more oral cholera vaccines left in the global stockpile, the World Health Organization said Friday, with the shortage jeopardising work to stop the disease's spread.
The WHO said on Friday it had for the first time prequalified an mpox vaccine 鈥� a move expected to speed up access to the jabs to fight an epidemic raging in Africa.
UNICEF said Saturday that it had launched an emergency tender for mpox vaccines to help countries hardest hit by the recent outbreak of the disease...
The World Health Organization on Friday urged manufacturers to ramp up production of mpox vaccines to rein in the spread of a more dangerous strain of the virus.
Murdoch Children鈥檚 Research Institute and Incepta Pharmaceuticals, based in Bangladesh, embarked on collaboration on Monday, aimed at bringing life-saving innovation to the global healthcare landscape...
Health minister Samanta Lal Sen has sought support from the Oxford Vaccine Group at the University of Oxford to establish a vaccine centre in Bangladesh...
Anglo-Swedish drugmaker AstraZeneca on Wednesday said that it was withdrawing Covid vaccine Vaxzevria, one of the first produced in the deadly pandemic, citing 鈥榗ommercial reasons鈥� following a slump in demand.....
AstraZeneca has admitted for the first time in court documents that its Covid vaccine can cause a rare side effect, in an apparent about-turn that could pave the way for a multi-million pound legal payout, reports The Telegraph.....