Vaccination against SARS-CoV-2 substantially lowers the risks of "breakthrough" infections and death due to COVID-19 in adult organ transplant recipients, according to a pair of research letters in Transplantation, the official ...
Aug 12, 2021
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India recorded more than 45,000 cases of the deadly "black fungus" over the last two months, the health ministry said, as a nationwide outbreak sweeps through COVID-19 patients.
Jul 21, 2021
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A small study offers the first hint that an extra dose of COVID-19 vaccines just might give some organ transplant recipients a needed boost in protection.
Jun 15, 2021
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A small study from Mayo Clinic researchers raises the concern that some transplant patients may have a limited immune response after being vaccinated for COVID-19 with an mRNA vaccine. Their findings are published as a letter ...
Apr 26, 2021
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When clinical trials were conducted to determine the immunogenicity—the ability to elicit an immune response—for the first two vaccines marshaled against SARS-CoV-2the virus that causes COVID-19, one group was not among ...
Mar 25, 2021
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A new study raised questions about how well COVID-19 vaccines protect organ transplant recipients—and what precautions people with suppressed immune systems should take after the shots.
Mar 15, 2021
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Johns Hopkins Medicine researchers have shown that it is possible for solid organ transplant recipients who contract COVID-19 to experience a natural immune response to SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes the disease. In their ...
Feb 10, 2021
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A new medication which can be applied to the skin could help prevent organ transplant recipients from developing harmful skin cancers.
Nov 19, 2020
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A new study, published in Transplantation, finds that risk of death from COVID-19 in organ transplant recipients may be based upon how the patient was treated.
Oct 2, 2020
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As any new mom would, Erin Anthony worried about germs before the coronavirus outbreak.
Mar 25, 2020
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