Transdermal and Intravaginal Steroid Contraceptives

Cholesterol

Cholesterol is a waxy steroid metabolite found in the cell membranes and transported in the blood plasma. It is an important structural component of mammalian cell membranes, where it is establishes...

Luteinizing Hormone LH

Luteinizing hormone (LH), a gonadotropin, stimulates the gonads - in males, the testes, and in females, the ovaries. It is essential for reproduction, and secreted from cells in the anterior pituita...

Guardian examines high incidence of drowning deaths among children in Bangladesh

"Bangladesh, a country crisscrossed with rivers and canals, has one of the highest drowning rates in the world," the Guardian reports. "More than 17,000 Bangladeshi children drown every year -- nearly...

A Novel Glucocorticoid Receptor Cofactor for Use as an Adjunct to Steroid-Based Therapies

Methods of using STAMP (SRC-1 and TIF-2 Associated Modulatory Protein) polypeptides for modulating steroid or nuclear receptor activity, alone or in combination with a steroid or nuclear receptor modu...

Sanofi Seeks Ties In Bangladesh To Make Drugs More Accessible

Sanofi said it is seeking partnerships in Bangladesh to help provide comprehensive disease management in the country by making drugs more accessible to the underprivileged.

Corticorelin acetate has steroid-sparing effect in brain cancer

(HealthDay)—Corticorelin acetate (CrA) administration to patients with peritumoral brain edema (PBE) allows the reduction of steroid doses and is associated with reduced incidence and severity of st...

10x in 10 years: Bangladesh firms target Indian growth rates (and markets)

Bangladesh's pharmaceutical industry has soaring ambitions. Sample this: It believes that local companies with average sales of more than $100 million today should be targeting the $1 billion mark in...

Bangladesh Drug Makers Get WHO Certification, Easing Foreign Approval

Bangladesh has received World Health Organization certification as a nation meeting international standards as a drug-testing nation for the first time, despite existence of the Bangladesh Drugs Admin...

Philippines urged to import drugs from Bangladesh

On 5 May 2013, the Prime Minister of the Philippines, Mr Sheikh Hasina, urged the country to import pharmaceutical products from Bangladesh, particularly for the countries governmental hospitals and c...

Bangladesh Drug Makers Hurt By Lack Of Local Bioequivalent Testing

The former head of the Bangladesh Association of Pharmaceutical Industries says that despite adherence to good manufacturing prices, local makers face problems exporting their drugs because of a lack...

The feasibility of identifying children with primary immunodeficiency disorders: Preparation for the polio post-eradication era in Bangladesh.

Persons with primary immunodeficiency disorders (PIDD) who receive oral poliovirus vaccine (OPV) or are household contacts of OPV recipients are at risk of excreting immunodeficiency-associated vaccin...

Antiulcer principle from Zingiber montanum.

Rhizome of Zingiber montanum has been extensively used as a folk medicine to ameliorate peptic ulcer at northern part of Bangladesh.

Improving low coverage of child immunization in rural hard-to-reach areas of Bangladesh: Findings from a project using multiple interventions.

The study was conducted to assess the impact of combined interventions to improve the child immunization coverage in rural hard-to-reach areas of Bangladesh. The valid coverage increased at endline co...

Validation of a home-based neurodevelopmental screening tool for under 2-year-old children in Bangladesh.

Background  Home-based screening to identify young children at risk for neurodevelopmental impairments (NDIs) is needed to guide the targeting of child neurodevelopmental intervention services in Ba...

Heavy metal concentrations in some macrobenthic fauna of the Sundarbans mangrove forest, south west coast of Bangladesh.

Heavy metal concentrations in some macrobenthic fauna have been reported for the first time from the Sundarbans mangrove forest, south west coast of Bangladesh, in the northern part of Bay of Bengal....