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MONDAY, Oct. 25, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- Moderna announced Monday that its COVID-19 vaccine safely triggers a strong immune response in children aged 6 to 11.Company data shows that a month after receiving both doses of the vaccine, children's antibody levels were 1.5 times higher than those in young adults. The company did not release the full data on the shots and the results have not been published in a peer-reviewed journal."We are encouraged by the immunogenicity and safety profile of mRNA-1273 [Moderna's vaccine] in children aged 6 to under 12 years and are pleased that the study met its primary immunogenicity endpoints," said Stéphane Bancel, chief executive officer of Moderna. "We look forward to filing with regulators globally and remain committed to doing our part to help...

MONDAY, Oct. 25, 2021 (American Heart Association News) -- When former President Bill Clinton was treated for sepsis earlier this month, it put a spotlight on a common illness not often discussed. But it's one that can endanger the heart.It is technically not a specific condition, but a syndrome that has defied easy categorization in the past. The official definition according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is "the body's extreme response to an infection." Unofficially, it's "a common process by which infections kill you," said Dr. Henry Wang, professor and vice chair for research in the department of emergency medicine at the Ohio State University in Columbus.Most cases can be blamed on bacteria. But viruses, including the flu and the virus that causes COVID-19,...

MONDAY, Oct. 25, 2021 (American Heart Association News) -- Nearly two years after earning a degree in information technology in 2016, Dwayne Levene was struggling to find a job and direction for his life.His outlook changed when the 28-year-old discovered The Knowledge House, a Bronx, New York-based nonprofit, where he enrolled in coding, web development and other courses he needed to secure a well-paying tech job. He also found career coaching and a funnel of job leads. In short order, he landed a computer science teacher position."I graduated from college, and I was just floating around like everybody else looking for work," Levene said. "Now I'm a teacher making a great salary, and I can be a provider for my family. This is the most stable I've ever been in my life."Levene is...

MONDAY, Oct. 25, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- In his work with patients who have pancreatic cancer, Dr. Srinivas Gaddam was bothered by something that he was seeing."There are some patients that you can't stop thinking about because they've left a mark on you and you try your best to turn things around, but there's only so much you can do," said Gaddam, who said he had found himself caring for a few patients who were very young. "We knew that there was a trend [of younger patients] in colon cancer, but we didn't know about pancreas cancer. So, I decided to see if there was a real trend. Was it just that I happened to see those few young patients disproportionate to everybody else in the field," said Gaddam, who is an assistant professor of medicine in the Karsh Division of...