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News Articles: Treatments

Even after full vaccination against COVID-19, people who have had organ transplants are urged by their doctors to keep wearing masks and taking extra precautions. Research shows the strong drugs they must take to prevent organ rejection can significantly blunt their body's response to the vaccine.

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  • Health

Vaccination Against COVID 'Does Not Mean Immunity' For People With Organ Transplants

For most people, COVID-19 vaccines promise a return to something akin to normal life. But for the hundreds of thousands of Americans who have a transplanted organ, it's a different story.

May 07, 2021
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By:
  • Maria Godoy
Mixing different kinds of COVID-19 vaccines might help boost immune responses, but the idea has been slow to catch on.

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  • Health

Giving 2 Doses Of Different COVID-19 Vaccines Could Boost Immune Response

Using two different COVID-19 vaccines is a bit like giving the immune system two pictures of the virus, maybe one face-on and one in profile.

May 05, 2021
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By:
  • Joe Palca
Suzanne Simard is a professor of forest ecology at the University of British Columbia. Her own medical journey inspired her research into, among other things, the way yew trees communicate chemically with neighboring trees for their mutual defense.

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  • Environment

Trees Talk To Each Other. 'Mother Tree' Ecologist Hears Lessons For People, Too

Ecologist Suzanne Simard says trees are "social creatures" that communicate with each other in remarkable ways — including warning each other of danger and sharing nutrients at critical times.

May 05, 2021
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By:
  • Dave Davies
The Shout at Cancer choir, pictured above in 2018, is featured in Bill Brummel's new documentary,<em> Can You Hear My Voice?</em>

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  • Movies

In The 'Shout At Cancer Choir,' No Voice Boxes Needed To Sing Out

All the singers in this U.K. choir have undergone laryngectomies — voice box removal — to treat cancer. Singing builds lung strength, and performing together builds confidence, choir members say.

May 04, 2021
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  • Stephanie O'Neill
Fragile X syndrome involves changes in the X chromosome, as pictured in the four columns of chromosomes starting on the left. The fifth column, on the far right, shows two normal X chromosomes.

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  • Health

An Alzheimer's Drug May Boost Cognition In People With Fragile X Syndrome

An experimental medicine seems to ease symptoms of Fragile X syndrome, a genetic disorder that is the most common inherited cause of intellectual disabilities and autism.

April 30, 2021
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  • Jon Hamilton
CVS is adding mental health counseling to the services offered at about a dozen of its stores with HealthHUBs in Florida, Pennsylvania and Texas.

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  • Mental Health

CVS To Offer In-Store Mental Health Counseling

As the number of people seeking therapy soars during the pandemic, CVS has begun testing a model to offer counseling services in its stores. It hopes to reduce costs for both patients and itself.

April 29, 2021
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  • Yuki Noguchi
To understand vaccine-induced immunity more fully, researchers are comparing antibody levels in people who received the Moderna vaccine but still got COVID-19 with levels in people who got the vaccine but didn't fall ill.

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  • Health

New Blood Tests Should Show How Long A COVID-19 Vaccine Will Protect You

Researchers are trying to come up with tests that can be performed using a blood sample that will determine not only whether a COVID-19 vaccine will work but also for how long.

April 28, 2021
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  • Joe Palca
The newly sequenced Canada lynx genome has already offered hints of how the North American wildcat might adapt — or not — to climate change, researchers say.

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  • Science

25 Down And 71,632 To Go: Scientists Seek Genomes Of All Critters With A Backbone

Biologists say newly efficient and accurate gene sequencing techniques have allowed them to fairly quickly detail full genomes and find overlooked genes in a broad range of 25 important species.

April 28, 2021
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  • Nell Greenfieldboyce

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  • Health

You Don't Have To Suffer To Benefit From COVID Vaccination — But Some Prefer It

Live-tweeting your fever and body aches after your second shot is the ultimate humble-brag of 2021. But does it really matter to immunity if you have a strong reaction to the COVID-19 vaccine?

April 27, 2021
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  • Arthur Allen

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  • Health

OPINION: Doctors Should Be More Candid With Their Patients

As a doctor, I was eligible for the COVID-19 vaccine in December, but I also was pregnant, and there wasn't yet much data to inform my decision. What I needed was a different kind of information.

April 18, 2021
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  • Mara Gordon
Lab assistant Tammy Brown dons personal protective equipment in a lab at the University of Maryland School of Medicine in Baltimore. She works on preparing positive coronavirus tests for sequencing to discern variants rapidly spreading throughout the country.

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  • Health

Biden Administration To Spend $1.7 Billion To Track Spread Of Coronavirus Variants

With a more contagious variant now dominant in the U.S., the country's genomic surveillance capacity is getting a major boost.

April 16, 2021
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  • Rob Stein and
  • Tamara Keith
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  • Health

Antibody Drugs For COVID-19 Are A Cumbersome Tool Against Surges

Drugs that can help keep COVID-19 patients out of the hospital are playing only a small role in Michigan, where the pandemic is accelerating. Logistical challenges are to blame.

April 16, 2021
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  • Richard Harris
A mass vaccination site at the Lumen Field Event Center in Seattle had plenty of takers for the COVID-19 vaccine when it opened in mid-March. Though some relatively rare cases of coronavirus infection have been documented despite vaccination, "I don't see anything that changes our concept of the vaccine and its efficacy," says Dr. Anthony Fauci of the National Institutes of Health.

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  • Health

CDC Studies 'Breakthrough' COVID Cases Among People Already Vaccinated

COVID-19 vaccines are highly effective but don't always provide perfect protection. Some vaccinated people later exposed to the virus still get sick. Why and how often that happens is under study.

April 15, 2021
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  • Rob Stein
Government health officials are recommending a "pause" in vaccinations with the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine.

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  • Health

Johnson & Johnson Vaccine And Blood Clots: What You Need To Know

Government health officials are recommending a "pause" in vaccinations with the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine. We're answering your questions as we learn more.

April 13, 2021
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  • Maria Godoy and
  • Richard Harris
Deaths from COVID-19 are often due to the immune system overreacting to the coronavirus. New drugs to suppress that reaction are showing promise, say researchers.

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  • Health

Drugs Targeting Immune Response To COVID-19 Show Promise

Researchers are reporting some progress in their search for drugs that tamp down the overwhelming immune reaction that can kill a patient with COVID-19.

April 07, 2021
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  • Richard Harris
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