Booster shot improves immune response of chemotherapy patients; post-COVID depression helped by widely used drugs

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achieved with a third booster dose of the vaccine from Pfizer Inc and BioNTech SE in cancer patients who are undergoing chemotherapy. "Chemotherapy can weaken the ability of cancer patients to fight off infections and to respond appropriately to vaccines," said Deepta Bhattacharya of the University of Arizona College of Medicine, coauthor of the study reported in Nature Medicine.

depression, 91% responded to treatment within four weeks, researchers reported this week at the European College of Neuropsychopharmacology meeting in Lisbon. They speculate that depression after survivors, the drugs had less of an effect on their anxiety levels.Vaccinated individuals should continue to wear masks in public because they can still carry - and possibly shed - as much virus as unvaccinated people and not realize it, data from a new study confirms. Researchers studied viral levels at diagnosis in 869 patients, including 632 who were asymptomatic. Most of the infections were caused by the highly contagious Delta variant of the coronavirus.

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