Prevention & Treatment Archives

September 13, 2022

Dr. Shmuel Shoham on Convalescent Plasma for COVID-19 in Immunocompromised Patients

In this interview, Dr. Brian Koffman spoke with Dr. Shmuel Shoham, a Professor of Clinical Medicine at Johns Hopkins University. Dr. Shoham specializes in the infectious disease care of immunocompromised patients, including those with leukemias and lymphomas. They discussed the use of convalescent plasma to treat COVID-19.

August 22, 2022

What Those with CLL/SLL Need to Know About the Latest CDC Guidance for Minimizing the Impact of COVID-19

In the new COVID-19 guidelines released on August 11th, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) made a change in their recommended infection control measures that are geared more towards increasing the focus on individuals understanding their own risk level for developing severe COVID-19 disease, making a personal decision

June 20, 2022

Dr. Diamond on Building a Better COVID-19 Vaccine for the Immunocompromised

Don Diamond. Ph.D., has been working for decades at City of Hope, Duarte, CA, constructing a new vaccine platform that will benefit the immunocompromised. It’s already been successfully used in post allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell (bone marrow) transplants to prevent a different viral infection, CMV.

February 16, 2022

Dr. Leyfman Discusses the Increased risk of COVID-19 and Cancer Patients

Dr. Leyfman discusses three medications that he hopes will prove to help with COVID-19

February 16, 2022

Cancer and COVID-19: A Proposed Mechanism with Therapeutic Interventions

In our second interview, Dr. Leyfman shared his research on COVID-19 and cancer patients presented at the American Society of Clinical Oncology’s Annual Meeting or ASCO 2021. He discussed a radically different approach with an experimental cellular therapy, mesenchymal stem cells, which demonstrated a 91% overall survival and 100%

February 16, 2022

ASH 2021: A Third Anti-Sars-Cov2 mRNA Dose Does Not Overcome the Pejorative Impact of Anti-CD20 Therapy and/or Low Immunoglobulin Level in CLL/Lymphoma Patients

This abstract from the American Society of Hematology Annual Meeting and Exposition (ASH 2021) reported analysis of retrospective data from 91 adult patients in France with lymphoma or chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) who enrolled in a study of antibody responses, measured two or more weeks after receiving second or

February 7, 2022

Vitamin D-Deficiency and Covid

The chances are strong that you are Vitamin D deficient. If you are, you’re not alone. Vitamin D deficiency is a significant public health problem worldwide, irrespective of geography.

January 28, 2022

Dr. Saltzman: Some Good News on Response to a Third Dose of SARS-CoV-2 mMRA Vaccines in CLL/SLL Patients and Others with Blood Cancers

LLS (Leukemia and Lymphoma Society) has been doing extensive longitudinal research led by Dr. Larry Saltzman on blood cancer patients’ responses to SARS-CoV-2 vaccines.

January 25, 2022

Pandemic Mental Health for the Immunosuppressed

Those of us who are immunosuppressed usually focus, appropriately, our energy and time on the many challenges relating to maintaining our physical health.

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Prevention & Treatment

Dr. Shmuel Shoham on Convalescent Plasma for COVID-19 in Immunocompromised Patients

What Those with CLL/SLL Need to Know About the Latest CDC Guidance for Minimizing the Impact of COVID-19

Dr. Diamond on Building a Better COVID-19 Vaccine for the Immunocompromised

Dr. Leyfman Discusses the Increased risk of COVID-19 and Cancer Patients

Cancer and COVID-19: A Proposed Mechanism with Therapeutic Interventions

ASH 2021: A Third Anti-Sars-Cov2 mRNA Dose Does Not Overcome the Pejorative Impact of Anti-CD20 Therapy and/or Low Immunoglobulin Level in CLL/Lymphoma Patients

Vitamin D-Deficiency and Covid

Dr. Saltzman: Some Good News on Response to a Third Dose of SARS-CoV-2 mMRA Vaccines in CLL/SLL Patients and Others with Blood Cancers

Pandemic Mental Health for the Immunosuppressed

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