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Blood marker could help ID those at risk of debilitating peripheral artery disease
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Blood marker could help ID those at risk of debilitating peripheral artery disease

by Julia Evangelou Strait,  Washington University School of Medicine A cross section of a peripheral artery from the leg of a patient with chronic limb-threatening ischemia, a condition in which heavy plaque formation causes a severe narrowing of the arteries. A new study from Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis has identified a key...

A blood marker predicts who gets ‘breakthrough’ COVID
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A blood marker predicts who gets ‘breakthrough’ COVID

Smriti Mallapaty A worker at Sheba Medical Center in Israel prepares a dose of the Pfizer–BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine. Breakthrough cases among the center’s vaccinated healthcare workers were rare in the first months of 2021.Credit: Jack Guez/AFP via Getty People fully vaccinated against COVID-19 are less likely to become infected with the coronavirus if they have...