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Twice, Janet Handal thought she would get a reprieve from semi-lockdown life. The first was when she was vaccinated in January, 2021. But a negative antibody test quickly dashed those …

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As new variant spreads, a crucial drug to protect the most vulnerable goes vastly underused

22.07.2022

Jennifer Padgett has spent 2 1/2 years terrified for her immunocompromised daughter, Hannah. Hannah catches pneumonia like mosquito bites; what could Covid wreak? Their whole family locked down in the …

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By altering the blood type of lungs, researchers raise the possibility of universal organs for transplants

16.02.2022

It was 4 a.m. on a humid night in St. Catharines, Ontario, and Elizabeth Ostrander couldn’t breathe. Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, complicated by pneumonia, was suffocating her, doctors told her …

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Drug companies could create new drugs to protect the Covid vulnerable. Why aren’t they?

As new variant spreads, a crucial drug to protect the most vulnerable goes vastly underused

By altering the blood type of lungs, researchers raise the possibility of universal organs for transplants