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As malaria spreads along with expanding mosquito territory, a new vaccine may help, Elizabeth Tracey reports
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Climate change is helping diseases like malaria and dengue fever, usually associated with warmer climates, spread further around the globe. Such dynamics may render a new vaccine against malaria, even though it only prevents a minority of infections, very important. …
Why are so many people choosing not to get the most recent Covid booster? Elizabeth Tracey reports
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Trying to understand vaccine hesitancy looms large as many infectious disease experts fear a fall surge of Covid. Anna Durbin, an infectious disease expert at Johns Hopkins, says a look at what happened with the early Covid vaccines is informative. …
A newly approved vaccine may finally make a dent in malaria, Elizabeth Tracey reports
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Malaria is a scourge worldwide, spread by mosquitoes. And with climate change, the range of these mosquitoes is expanding, likely bringing malaria to a location near you. Good news then that a vaccine is finally available. Infectious disease expert Anna …
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How might cancer and diabetes be linked? Elizabeth Tracey reports
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A blood marker called prostasin seems to link both one’s risk to develop diabetes and the risk of dying from cancer. How might these be linked? William Nelson, director of the Kimmel Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins, offers his interpretation. …
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Can a new blood marker predict who might develop diabetes or die from cancer? Elizabeth Tracey reports
How do most people with thyroid cancer find out they have it? Elizabeth Tracey reports
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Thyroid cancer seems to be occurring more often globally, yet a recent study shows that for the majority of people who had surgery for thyroid cancer, the cancer was found while they were being evaluated for something else, a so-called …
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