The new survey also found that only 9 percent of adults who hadn’t gotten the shot planned to do so, suggesting the country is nearing the limit of people planning to get immunized.
How do we actually investigate rare COVID-19 vaccine side-effects?
Investigations are under way to determine whether the deaths of two people in New South Wales who developed blood clots are linked to the AstraZeneca vaccine.
Ahead of Tokyo Olympics, Better Drug Testing Is a Hard Promise to Keep
The pandemic slowed worldwide drug testing to a crawl. The process has resumed, but the problems that led to poor testing ahead of the 2016 Games have not gone away.
First official images from ‘Game of Thrones’ prequel ‘House of the Dragon’ released
Fans of the HBO blockbuster TV series “Game of Thrones” can now get a look at the first official images from the upcoming prequel “House of the Dragon.”
Suspected VITT blood clotting case after Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccination
University of Utah Health announces a suspected case of vaccine-induced thrombotic thrombocytopenia (VITT), also called thrombosis and thrombocytopenia syndrome (TTS), after receiving the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine. Confirmation of the diagnosis by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is pending.
In Norway, vaccination coverage varies with birth country
Vaccination coverage varies with country of birth, according to a new review about the proportion of people vaccinated among immigrant groups conducted by the Norwegian Institute of Public Health. The reasons for the differences are unknown.
Organ transplant recipients vulnerable to COVID-19 even after vaccination
In a study published today in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), Johns Hopkins Medicine researchers show that although two doses of a vaccine against SARS-CoV-2—the virus that causes COVID 19—confers some protection for people who have received solid organ transplants, it’s still not enough to enable them to dispense with masks, physical …
Aggressive brain tumors can mimic normal brain repair processes
Scientists at the UCL have made a ‘surprising’ discovery that glioblastoma, an aggressive brain cancer, mimics normal brain repair in white matter, which leads to the tumor becoming less malignant.
New technology could detect warning signs of breast cancer
A University of Canterbury (UC) student has come up with a new computerized method of reading mammograms that could help radiologists detect warning signs of breast cancer.
Piecing together the preterm infant microbiome
The human microbiome—the collection of microbes living in the gut—is now recognized as an important contributor to health and disease. The environment, the host, and microbe-microbe interactions are all likely to shape the microbiome’s dynamics, but the unique roles of each are not well understood. Now, a Boston Children’s Hospital infectious disease researcher reveals how …