Vaccines May Not Require Yearly Boosters Say Scientists
Clues from Pfizer and Moderna vaccine research suggest lasting protection that could lessen the need for frequent boosters though mutations remain a wild card. Immunity includes backup layers beyond antibodies, with experts noting protection lasting six to nine months or longer and debates on timing to be set by health authorities.
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Pfizer
Moderna
Paul Offit
Children’s Hospital of
Philadelphia
Food and Drug Administration
University of Pennsylvania
John Wherry
LMH Health rolls out lifetime breast cancer risk tool
A joint LMH Health program integrates mammograms with a lifetime risk assessment to identify high risk women. Radiologist Dr Richard Kuckelman and surgeon Dr Jennifer Hawash explain how age BMI breast density family history and genetic testing results feed into a risk score. Women with 20 percent or higher lifetime risk are referred for further evaluation at Lawrence Breast Specialists.
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Imaging
Women’s Center
Cancer Center
Richard Kuckelman
Jennifer Hawash
Lawrence Breast Specialists
LMH Health West
LMH Health Offers Financial Help for Breast Cancer Screening
LMH Health provides financial aid for uninsured or underinsured women for regular and diagnostic mammograms. For voucher details call LMH Health Patient Accounts at 785-505-5775. High risk patients can access Cancer Center care, genetic testing, counseling, and imaging services accredited by the Commission on Cancer.
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LMH Health
Cancer Center
The
Commission On Cancer
National Comprehensive Cancer Network
Jodie Barr
LMH Health Cancer Center
Kansas City
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