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NIH ‘very concerned’ about serious side effect in AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine trial

“The highest levels of NIH are very concerned,” said Dr. Avindra Nath, intramural clinical director and a leader of viral research at the National Institute for Neurological Disorders and Stroke, an NIH division. “Everyone’s hopes are on a vaccine, and if you have a major complication the whole thing could get derailed.” A great deal… Read More »

AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine trial pause ‘a good thing’: Dr. Bob Lahita

AstraZeneca’s decision to pause its global trials of a COVID-19 vaccine candidate over safety concerns should reassure skeptical Americans that “they are looking very carefully at everybody who is getting the vaccine,” New York Medical College Professor Dr. Bob Lahita told “Your World” Wednesday. AstraZeneca, which has been developing a vaccine with the University of Oxford, temporarily put its late-stage study on… Read More »

Trial shows antihypertension drug may improve pancreatic cancer outcomes

 Locally advanced pancreatic cancer (LAPC) — a tumor that, while still confined to the pancreas, involves major abdominal blood vessels — is one of the worst forms of an already deadly tumor, as it cannot be removed surgically. Now a Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) Cancer Center clinical trial of a treatment protocol combining intensive chemotherapy and radiation… Read More »