Q: What does the evidence show about the safety profile of the hepatitis B vaccine in infants, and how should pharmacists communicate this to concerned parents?
Morgan McSweeney, PhD: I understand why a lot of people aren’t quite sure what to…
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Ready for a reset? Recalibration could become word of the year in 2026 for a wellness sector that is growing both technical health solutions and minimalist, ritualistic approaches, and where nearly all the forecast trends have one thing in…
Tara Fischer investigates how cells detect and repair organelle damage, and how these processes influence inflammation and the progression of neurodegenerative disease. She brings this focus to Ithaca as she begins her role as an assistant…
As 2024 came to an end, bird flu dominated headlines. The virus, technically known as avian influenza, was being detected in raw milk, dairy farms and even children, my colleagues Susanne Rust and Melissa Gomez reported.
After federal officials…
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Authorship: In addition to Lavoie-Gagne and Khurana, Mass General Brigham authors include Kelsey Brown, Alexander Kwon, Nishant Suneja, Michael J. Weaver, George S. Dyer, and Mitchel B. Harris.
Funding: The study was funded by the National…
Findings from the prospective DIRECT (NCT04226937) study demonstrated that an ultrasensitive circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA) assay tracking tumor-specific phased variants (PVs) to detect minimal residual disease (MRD) at the end of first-line…
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