Severe COVID or Severe Flu May Raise Risk of Lung Cancer, But Vaccines Helped in Animal Tests

discovermagazine - Learn how severe respiratory illness leaves the lungs vulnerable to cancer, and how vaccines could prevent these vulnerabilities.

AI Summary: New animal and observational evidence suggests severe respiratory infections—including serious COVID‑19 and influenza—can prime lung tissue and accelerate cancer development months to years later. Vaccination appeared to blunt those effects in experimental models, highlighting prevention as a potential cancer‑risk reduction strategy and urging clinicians to watch survivors of severe infections more closely.

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Amy C. Moore: Could Severe COVID-19 Increase Lung Cancer Risk?

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Severe COVID-19 and flu can facilitate lung cancer months or years later

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Severe COVID or Severe Flu May Raise Risk of Lung Cancer, But Vaccines Helped in Animal Tests

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6 Things to Know About Stryker’s Cyberattack

Katie Adams / medcitynews - Stryker was hit by a cyberattack this week that knocked out its internal systems worldwide and caused delays to order processing and manufacturing. An Iran-linked group has claimed responsibility for the attack, but the full impact remains unclear.The pos…

AI Summary: A worldwide cyberattack knocked out Stryker’s enterprise Microsoft environment, wiping access to key internal systems and forcing hospitals and manufacturers to scramble for workarounds. The company is issuing platform‑specific updates while investigators link the intrusion to a pro‑Iran actor, leaving supply chains and surgical workflows nervously improvising.

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Stryker working to restore systems after cyberattack impacts operations

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Judge approves $5M Geisinger, Microsoft data breach settlement

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Trinity Health notifies patients of potential data exposure tied to Health Gorilla

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What health systems learned from the Stryker cyberattack

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6 Things to Know About Stryker’s Cyberattack

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Stryker updates hospitals on platforms unaffected by cyberattack: 12 updates