Category Archives: Cancer and neoplasms

The recent announcement of a US$40 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to support production of new messenger ribonucleic acid (mRNA) vaccines in Africa presents opportunities to boost clinical trials and strengthen a potential foundation of the continent’s health care landscape. An mRNA vaccine uses a copy of a molecule called messenger RNA (mRNA) to […]

Introduction The 2021 WHO classification categorizes neuroendocrine neoplasms (NENs) of the lung as a single tumor group, which includes low- and intermediate-grade typical carcinoid (TC) and atypical carcinoid (AC) and high-grade NE carcinomas (NECs), including large cell neuroendocrine carcinoma (LCNEC) and small cell lung cancer (SCLC).1 Combined small cell lung cancer (C-SCLC) is a subtype […]

COVID-19 booster vaccines were introduced to improve the efficacy of vaccinations; however, the success varied across patients with hematologic malignancies. Further, the Omicron variant puts individuals at a higher risk for contracting COVID-19 because of its higher infection rate. A study published in Cancer Medicine evaluated the outcomes of patients with hematologic malignancies during the […]

Thom Filicia has plenty of experience when it comes to design. After all, the original Queer Eye cast member is a famous interior designer who’s written books on his craft and starred in a number of shows crafting beautiful spaces — not to mention his stint on RuPaul’s Drag Race in 2022. One thing Filicia […]

Sublingual immunotherapy (SLIT) was reported to be a safe in peanut-allergic children that are 1 to 4 years old, with a high chance of desensitization and remission with earlier treatment, according to research published in the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology. Image credit: Tanawut | stock.adobe.com The clinical trial extended over 3 years and […]

Today, when it comes to COVID-19 vaccination, there are multiple options available for patients. The currently FDA-authorized vaccines include options from Pfizer-BioNTech (Comirnaty), Moderna (Spikevax), and Novavax (Covovax). All of these vaccines are given intramuscularly in the upper arm for both adults and children.¹ Many individuals have questions about the ingredients in these vaccines. For […]

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