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Sanofi establishes three-year collaboration with Stanford Medicine to accelerate immunology research
Sanofi has entered into a three-year research collaboration with Stanford University School of Medicine. Together, the two organizations and their scientists will work to advance the understanding of immunology and inflammation through open scientific exchange. Additionally, Sanofi will provide funding and scientific inputs into projects of mutual interest, crossing multiple therapeutic areas including autoimmune diseases and inflammatory conditions.
“We look forward to working with some of the most innovative scientists in the human immunology community. Together we will explore groundbreaking concepts and obtain deeper insights into underlying inflammatory disease mechanisms,” said Frank Nestle, Global Head of Research and Chief Scientific Officer, Sanofi. S
May 10, 2021 / 05:33 PM EST
(CNN) It’s the claim that’s suddenly everywhere: The Covid-19 vaccine is going to make women infertile.
“No! You don’t know the science!” one woman posted on Twitter in response to naysayers. “The vaccine creates an immune response to the placenta and renders a woman sterile! They know this and this is the objective! It’s a shifty world sterilisation programme.”
As it turns out, this unfounded fear isn’t new, said vaccine expert and pediatrician Dr. Yvonne Maldonado, the chief of Stanford University School of Medicine’s division of pediatric infectious diseases, who is currently leading vaccine trials in children younger than 12.
Kids and the Covid-19 vaccine: A pediatrician answers safety questions
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is expected to grant emergency use authorization next week to Pfizer/BioNTech’s coronavirus vaccine for teens and children ages 12 to 15.
According to CNN estimates, that would make another 5% of the population nearly 17 million teens eligible to be vaccinated.
Some 52% of parents said they are likely to get their children vaccinated against Covid-19 when a vaccine becomes available for their age group, according to a poll conducted during the first week of April.
That still leaves many parents unsure of what to do, vulnerable to misinformation campaigns on vaccine safety that have spread on social media.
Tara A. Kilgallen of
Framingham has joined ERA Key as a Realtor in the
Framingham office.
Kilgallen has 20 years of experience as a yoga instructor in Massachusetts and California, and is currently as instructor at Common Ground Yoga in
Framingham. She previously served as co-director of Yoga at Lumina Mind Body Studios - Longfellow Health Clubs in
Wayland and
She was also a yoga instructor at Bosse Sports in
Sudbury. Before that, she was the director of yoga and retail manager at Tushita Heaven in San Juan Capistrano, California.
She earned her bachelor’s degree from Lesley University in Cambridge and completed her real estate training at Freedom Trail Realty School in Cambridge.