One of the trendy health topics right now is gut health. Fashionable or not, it’s an exciting area of research. Scientists are making new discoveries about the role of the gut microbiome and how it’s related to disease—including cancer. What is a microbi...
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The development of safe and highly effective COVID-19 vaccines has provided a path to ending this pandemic. Over the last year, masking and physical distancing have become a normal part of life. Now, as more people are becoming vaccinated, we are re-evaluat...
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Cancer and its treatments can trigger many changes to a woman’s body, and these changes may affect a patient’s sex life. It’s an all-too-common problem that many women are nervous to talk about, but it’s important to ask questions and seek answers. While th...
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By Marian Dennis In March 2020, Fox Chase Cancer Center was among thousands of healthcare facilities around the country facing the challenge of providing a continued high standard of care while adapting to changing information and protocols surrounding t...
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By Marian DennisOriginally published in the Summer/Fall 2020 Issue of ForwardGrowing up in Barcelona, Spain, Israel Cañadas, PhD, was fascinated by the world around him and dreamed of a career in science.Cañadas, now an assistant professor in the Blood Cell...
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New approaches using mRNA as vaccines have led to the rapid development of two safe and highly effective vaccines for COVID-19. But if you’re wondering how it all works, well, you’re not alone. Although scientists have been studying mRNA vaccines for more t...
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