Nearly 10 Million Cancer Screenings Missed During Pandemic
By Robert Preidt
HealthDay Reporter
WEDNESDAY, May 5, 2021 (HealthDay News) Nearly 10 million cancer screenings have been missed in the United States during the coronaviruspandemic, researchers report.
The investigators analyzed data on three types of cancer for which early screenings are most beneficial breast, colon and prostate and found that 9.4 million screenings for these cancers did not occur in the United States due to COVID-19.
Screenings for all three types of cancer fell sharply. For example, there was a 90% decline in breast cancer screenings in April 2020, according to the study published online April 29 in
Vaccine protects Covid-19 survivors against variants
Pfizer/BioNTech, mRNA vaccine protects not only against the original virus strain but also against worrisome variants
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May 01, 2021
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The following is a roundup of some of the latest scientific studies on the novel coronavirus and efforts to find treatments and vaccines for Covid-19, the illness caused by the virus.
Vaccine protects Covid-19 survivors against variants
In Covid-19 survivors, the Pfizer/BioNTech, mRNA vaccine protects not only against the original virus strain but also against worrisome variants, two studies show. UK researchers analyzed immune responses after a single dose of the vaccine in 51 people, including 25 people previously infected with an early version of the novel coronavirus.
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April 30 (Reuters) - The following is a roundup of some of
the latest scientific studies on the novel coronavirus and
efforts to find treatments and vaccines for COVID-19, the
illness caused by the virus.
Vaccine protects COVID-19 survivors against variants
In COVID-19 survivors, the Pfizer/BioNTech
mRNA vaccine protects not only against the original virus strain
but also against worrisome variants, two studies show. UK
researchers analyzed immune responses after a single dose of the
vaccine in 51 people, including 25 people previously infected
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The following is a roundup of some of the latest scientific studies on the novel coronavirus and efforts to find treatments and vaccines for COVID-19, the illness caused by the virus.
Vaccine protects COVID-19 survivors against variants
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In COVID-19 survivors, the Pfizer/BioNTech mRNA vaccine protects not only against the original virus strain but also against worrisome variants, two studies show. UK researchers analyzed immune responses after a single dose of the vaccine in 51 people, including 25 people previously infected with an early version of the novel coronavirus. Survivors showed enhanced antibody responses against the newer, more infectious variants first seen in the UK and South Africa, whereas people who had not previously been infected did not produce antibodi