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Does adding a blood test to CT help identify more lung cancers? Elizabeth Tracey reports
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CT scanning is used to screen for many lung cancers, with a new study finding that adding a simple blood test to the scan helps both find lung cancers and reduce the number of tests needing follow up. William Nelson, …
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Omicron is not the last Covid variant, Elizabeth Tracey reports
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Variants of Covid are springing up all the time, perhaps in people who have compromised immune systems and experience prolonged infection or in animal hosts. Stuart Ray, an infectious disease expert at Johns Hopkins, says right now with Delta and …
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New vaccines for Covid-19 should arrive much faster than their predecessors, Elizabeth Tracey reports
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Both vaccine developers and the FDA have agreed that as new Covid variants emerge and updated vaccines are required, the pathway for providing them should involve testing in far fewer people and over a shorter period of time. Jonathan Zenilman, …
What will it take for new vaccines against Covid variants to be manufactured and distributed? Elizabeth Tracey reports
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Why aren’t Covid vaccines, especially mRNA vaccines, being produced against variants such as Omicron as they emerge? Anna Durbin, an infectious disease expert at Johns Hopkins, says this is what the technology promises. Durbin: I do think we have to …
There is some protection against Omicron with current vaccines, Elizabeth Tracey reports
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If you’ve had three doses of an mRNA vaccine against Covid you are much less likely to require hospitalization, require ICU level care, or die from Covid-19, even with the now dominant Omicron variant, than if you aren’t vaccinated at …
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