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CHICAGO, COOK COUNTY PLAN TO OPEN VACCINE SITES TO TEENS THIS WEEK: The CDC is expected to give the final approval of Pfizer s COVID-19 vaccine shots for use in children ages 12 to 15 today, paving the way for the city to open up its vaccination sites to youth on Thursday.
While COVID cases in children are normally more mild, they can still spread the virus. Public health officials have pointed to a growing proportion of U.S. COVID cases among youth as more adults get vaccinated.
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Called “Is what you see what you get?” the study is regarded as particularly important “at a time when the cannabis industry continues to struggle with product claims and consistency as the industry matures,” the company reports.
Over the three years, 480 authentic cannabis products will be randomly selected and purchased from state-licensed retail dispensaries. Each product will then be independently and blindly analyzed for cannabinoid content and the results will be sent to state policymakers and the public, according to MedPharm, which specializes in neuropharmacology.
“The resulting information from the study will be highly relevant to our state’s testing policies and procedures, as well as to our patient/consumer community,” suggests Towle.
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NEW YORK, NY (May 10, 2021) Scientists have discovered that many esophageal cancers turn on ancient viral DNA that was embedded in our genome hundreds of millions of years ago. It was surprising, says Adam Bass, MD, the Herbert and Florence Irving Professor of Medicine at Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons and Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center, who led the study published May 10 in
Nature Genetics. We weren t specifically searching for the viral elements, but the finding opens up a huge new array of potential cancer targets that I think will be extremely exciting as ways to enhance immunotherapy.