Pandemic Creates Opportunity to Study Rare Vaccine Side Effects
The Global Vaccine Data Network (GVDN) is a project conceived over 10 years ago to study vaccine side effects. Back then, it couldn't secure funding. N | Health And Medicine
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The Global Vaccine Data Network (GVDN) is a project conceived over 10 years ago to study vaccine side effects. Back then, it couldn't secure funding. N | Health And Medicine
Study characterizes cisplatin-induced hearing loss in pediatric cancer patients Cisplatin is one of the most effective chemotherapy agents, used in just under half of pediatric cancer cases. Permanent hearing loss is a common side effect of this medication, but until now, studies have been too small and too varied to accurately characterize this risk. Today in The Lancet Child & Adolescent Health, investigators at Children's Hospital Los Angeles published results of the largest study of cisplatin-induced hearing loss to date. The study establishes the first benchmarks for the prevalence of h...