Joseph Rossano, MD, discusses how FDA approval of mavacamten introduces a disease-targeted treatment option for adults and pediatric patients weighing 30 kg (66 lbs) or more with symptomatic oHCM.
|Articles|May 27, 2021
Talking with Dr. Katherine Luzuriaga about COVID-19 vaccines and children
Author(s)Lois Levine, MA
Contemporary Pediatrics talks to Dr. Katherine Luzuriaga about COVID-19 vaccines for children.
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Dr. Katherine Luzuriaga is the UMassMemorial Health Care Chair in Biomedical Research; Director, UMass Center for Clinical and Translational Science; Vice Provost, Clinical and Translational Research; and Professor, Molecular Medicine, Pediatrics and Medicine, at the University of Massachusetts Medical School in Worcester. Recently, Contemporary Pediatrics talked with Dr. Luzuriaga about COVID-19 vaccines for children, where we are right now, and where we are heading.
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