Month: March 2021

Soon after the Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna COVID-19 vaccines came to market, doctors began to notice something different in the mammogram images of a small fraction of women who'd recently gotten their shots: enlarged lymph nodes.   Swollen lymph nodes under one arm can be a rare sign of breast cancer, and when doctors find that, they usually order more testing, and potentially a biopsy to rule out cancer, said Dr. Kimberly Garver, the director of breast imaging at the University of Michigan. However, in these women, the lymph node swelling was a normal immune response to the vaccines, and wasn't actually cancer. It led the Society of Breast Imaging to issue a recommendation that women should consider scheduling their mammograms four to six weeks after the second dose of a COVID-19 vaccin...

"I'm determined to make sure that people who, historically, have not been seen or who have felt undervalued know that they matter, that they are extremely important," said Manning, a professor of medicine and the associate vice chair of diversity, equity and inclusion in the department of medicine at Emory University in Atlanta. "The biggest problem with citing the untreated syphilis study as the reason why people say 'no' is that it creates one reason why a large group of very different people, and individual people, feel the way they do," Manning said. "Black people are not a monolith." Manning earned her bachelor's degree at what is now Tuskegee University. In 1932, the United States Public Health Service began working with what was then the Tuskegee Institute to record the natura...

LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- With California officially opening vaccine eligibility for those 50 and older later this week, is it possible to make an appointment now? It depends on where you live and where you search online. The hunt for appointments is on. At Riverside University Health System, Hugo Alvarez is the Director of Patient Access. He's been helping to match people with vaccines since the first rollout. "Be a little bit patient with the process," he said. "Let things unfold." Alvarez said look to health departments to start your search. "The county website is always going to be your first and foremost point of contact," he said. If you're 50 or older, and live or work in Long Beach, the city announced you can make an appointment by signing up through VaxLB. And while you won't fin...

WARNING: The following article and video contain graphic images GOOCHLAND COUNTY, Va. (WRIC) — A Virginia man suffered a severe reaction after getting his COVID-19 vaccine and doctors believe it was a direct result of the shot. ‘It’s been too long’: Body of missing 18-year-old found in car recovered from Lake Erie Richard Terrell got the one-dose Johnson & Johnson vaccine earlier this month. He suffered a severe rash that spread over his entire body and turned his skin red. The 74-year-old was admitted to the hospital and spent five days at the VCU Medical Center. Terrell was released from the hospital and is now sharing his vaccination story as he recovers from the comfort of his Goochland County home. He said that he’s still very weak and that it w...