When new Emory University faculty member Natalie Dean posted a primer on Twitter last year to demystify vaccine efficacy, she earned herself a fanbase outside the scientific community. Biostatisticians like Dean are challenged ...
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On Sept. 29, 2021, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued a health advisory urging people who are pregnant, lactating or may become pregnant to get vaccinated for COVID-19. As of Oct. 2, only 33% of pregnant ...
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In fall 2020, clinicians at Emory began treating a growing group of patients who had seemingly recovered from acute COVID-19 illness, but still suffered from lingering symptoms weeks or even months later. These patients, ...
Oct 13, 2021
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The U.S. has now vaccinated more than 208 million people with at least one dose of COVID-19 vaccine. More people are getting vaccinated, but transmission rates in communities are still high, with 94% of U.S. counties classified ...
Sep 22, 2021
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As hospitalizations surge nationwide due to unvaccinated patients with COVID-19, vaccines are a crucial tool to prevent severe disease and overwhelmed hospital systems. More than 378 million doses of COVID-19 vaccine have ...
Sep 13, 2021
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Premature or very low birth weight infants often need transfusions of red blood cells (RBCs) while in the neonatal intensive care unit. New research from Emory and Children's Healthcare of Atlanta suggests that the sex of ...
Sep 6, 2021
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A new study from scientists at Emory Vaccine Center and Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University reports that the immune cells that are the major targets of immune checkpoint inhibitors are present in tumors from head ...
Sep 1, 2021
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A new study by researchers at Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University finds that cancer-associated mutations originate in blood progenitor cells, leading to distinct changes in both cancer and non-cancer immune cells ...
Sep 1, 2021
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After evaluating data from clinical trials and millions of doses administered in the real world, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) this week approved Pfizer-BioNTech's COVID-19 vaccine for individuals 16 years of ...
Aug 27, 2021
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A new study published in JAMA Oncology by Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University's Michael H. Chung, MD, MPH, and colleagues, finds that loop electrosurgical procedure (LEEP) is more effective than cryotherapy in clearing ...
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