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Moderna asks FDA to expand COVID-19 vaccine authorization to adolescents

Moderna announced June 10 it has requested an emergency use authorization from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for its coronavirus vaccine for use in 12- to 17-year-olds. The emergency use authorization would allow for the use...

source: Axios

Attention all surgical pathologists: Algorithms for automated primary diagnosis of digital pathology images likely to gain regulatory clearance in near future

Digital pathology is poised to take a great leap forward. Within as few as 12 months, image analysis algorithms may gain regulatory clearance in the United States for use in primary diagnosis...

source: Dark Daily

More support for gene assay to guide breast cancer treatment

Patients with ultralow-risk breast cancer according to genomic assessment had excellent long-term outcomes regardless of clinical risk or whether they received adjuvant therapy, a new analysis of a randomized trial showed.

source: MedPage Today

Why it's been relatively easy to vaccinate against COVID-19 compared to HIV or cancer

Effective COVID-19 vaccines were developed in under a year. But a half-century after the country declared war on cancer, and 40 years after the first reported case of HIV/AIDS, there remains no way to prevent either disease, or many more.

source: USA Today

University of Florida study looks at new ways to treat antibiotic-resistant bacteria like MRSA

University of Florida medicinal chemists report promising results from a study focused on new ways to of treating several types of antibiotic-resistant bacteria, advances that may help in the battle against MRSA, tuberculosis...

source: Outbreak News Today

Scientists uncover the mysteries of how viruses evolved

Researchers from the Universities of York and Leeds, collaborating with the Hilvert Laboratory at the ETH Zürich, studied the structure, assembly and evolution of a "container" composed of a bacterial enzyme. The study — published in the journal Science —...

source: Lab Manager

New discovery shows human cells can write RNA sequences into DNA

In a discovery that challenges long-held dogma in biology, researchers show that mammalian cells can convert RNA sequences back into DNA, a feat more common in viruses than eukaryotic cells.

source: Thomas Jefferson University via ScienceDaily

Implant reverses Type 1 diabetes in mice by delivering beta cells

Some of the most favorable alternative sources for diabetes cell replacement therapy are human stem cells. However, a critical challenge has been finding a safe, effective means to introduce replacement cells that normalize blood sugar...

source: Medical News Today

CDC warns about spike in RSV cases across South

A common cold virus called respiratory syncytial virus is spreading across the South, causing an unusual wave of late spring disease, the US Centers for Disease Control and prevention said Thursday. The CDC issued a Health Advisory Network warning to doctors and other...

source: CNN

Underlying illness, respiratory infection raise risk for severe COVID in kids

Of two new studies on severe COVID-19 in children, the first finds that more than one in four had an underlying medical condition, and the second shows that kids diagnosed as having acute lower respiratory tract infection (ALRI)...

source: CIDRAP

C. difficile infection linked to recurrent hospitalizations

Clostridioides difficile infections continue to impose a serious financial burden on the nation’s health systems, according to a study presented at the virtual 2021 MAD-ID annual meeting (poster A01). Reducing CDI, and particularly recurrent CDI, may enable hospitals...

source: General Surgery News

Beating biofilm is key to fighting surgical infections

Health care is at a perilous crossroads. “Deaths from drug-resistant infections are set to skyrocket to over 10 million per year worldwide and could cost the global economy as much as $100 trillion by 2050,” a STATISTICA article reports. The same concerning...

source: Infection Control Today

US CDC eases travel recommendations on some 110 countries, territories including Japan

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has eased travel recommendations for more than 110 countries and territories, including Japan just ahead of the Olympics. The CDC's new ratings, first reported by Reuters...

source: Reuters

Study: COVID-19 vaccines highly immunogenic in pregnant and lactating women

Both messenger RNA COVID-19 vaccines available in the United States trigger immune responses in pregnant and nonpregnant women, including those who are lactating, researchers reported in JAMA. Dan H. Barouch, MD, PhD, director of...

source: Healio

Exploring CAR T-cell Therapy to Treat Breast Cancer

Peter Mac researchers are developing a potential new way to make CAR T-cell therapy more effective against breast cancer and other solid cancers. CAR T-cell therapy is a type of immunotherapy where a patient's own immune cells are collected and reengineered, before being...

source: Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre via Medical Xpress

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Universal vaccine for the flu may be just around the corner

Moderna asks FDA to expand COVID-19 vaccine authorization to adolescents

Attention all surgical pathologists: Algorithms for automated primary diagnosis of digital pathology images likely to gain regulatory clearance in near future

More support for gene assay to guide breast cancer treatment

Why it's been relatively easy to vaccinate against COVID-19 compared to HIV or cancer

University of Florida study looks at new ways to treat antibiotic-resistant bacteria like MRSA

Scientists uncover the mysteries of how viruses evolved

New discovery shows human cells can write RNA sequences into DNA

Implant reverses Type 1 diabetes in mice by delivering beta cells

CDC warns about spike in RSV cases across South

Underlying illness, respiratory infection raise risk for severe COVID in kids

C. difficile infection linked to recurrent hospitalizations

Beating biofilm is key to fighting surgical infections

US CDC eases travel recommendations on some 110 countries, territories including Japan

Study: COVID-19 vaccines highly immunogenic in pregnant and lactating women

Exploring CAR T-cell Therapy to Treat Breast Cancer

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