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SHP partners with O’Neal Cancer Center, UAB Medicine for Genetic Counselor Fellowship Details
The UAB School of Health Professions has partnered with the School of Medicine and the O’Neal Comprehensive Cancer Center at UAB to offer a one-year post-graduation fellowship to a student in the M.S. in Genetic Counseling program. The fellowship will provide advanced clinical training, research and teaching opportunities in the area of cancer genetic counseling. The student who is selected for the position will have full tuition support, be employed by the UAB Department of Genetics, and earn an educational stipend during the fellowship year in exchange for a four-year post-graduation commitment to work at UAB.
Some Black MS residents are skeptical of COVID vaccine. Can researchers change minds? [The Sun Herald]
Dec. 21 A few days ago, Vanessa Reed got a letter in the mail. A company called ClinicalResearch.com wanted her to know she could get up to $740 and potentially a free COVID-19 vaccine if she signed up for a clinical trial.
Reed, who is Black and Native American, tossed the letter aside.
“To me it’s dangerous,” she said of the vaccine. “I do believe in vaccinating your children. But I just don’t trust any of this. People can tell me it’s OK, but their body is not my body.”
To build COVID-19 vaccine trust with Black Mississippians, researchers fight legacy of mistreatment Isabelle Taft, The Sun Herald
Dec. 21 A few days ago, Vanessa Reed got a letter in the mail. A company called ClinicalResearch.com wanted her to know she could get up to $740 and potentially a free COVID-19 vaccine if she signed up for a clinical trial.
Reed, who is Black and Native American, tossed the letter aside. To me it s dangerous, she said of the vaccine. I do believe in vaccinating your children. But I just don t trust any of this. People can tell me it s OK, but their body is not my body.
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LUND, Sweden, Dec. 11, 2020 /PRNewswire/ Immunovia AB (publ) ( Immunovia ), a near-commercial stage diagnostics company developing ground-breaking antibody-based multiplex microarray technology platform called IMMray for the early detection of cancer, today announced that the company will be hosting the third webinar in the series on IMMray PanCan-d, Immunovia s test for early detection of pancreatic cancer. This third webinar will cover IMMray
PanCan-d verification study results and its clinical use including feedback from experts in pancreatic cancer and pancreatic diseases.
Event Details: Webinar No. 3: Immunovia s IMMray PanCan-d Webinar Series Verification Study and Clinical Use
Date and Time: December 17, 2020 at 15:00 CET
Moderator for the Webinar is CEO Patrik Dahlen