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Cancer would seem to be the last disease you could prevent or treat with a vaccine. After all, infection plays no role in cancer, except in a few rare types of malignancy. And a cancer cell, unlike an invading pathogen, isn't wholly foreign to the body. Nevertheless, researchers are...
"What we've been able to show," says Dr. Guy Gammon, vice president of clinical development for CancerVax, the biotech company that makes the vaccine, "is that not only do a majority of patients make an immune response, but that those making a strong response survive longer."
Indeed, in early clinical trials on people whose tumors had been surgically removed, those receiving the vaccine lived on average twice as long as controls. To make the vaccine even more potent, company scientists are testing a version of CanVaxin enhanced with cytokines to help boost the response of patients...
Under Thompson and Ridge, bad--and sometimes fatal--decisions were made. The U.S. government allowed postal workers to continue breathing the air of a sorting facility filled with anthrax spores; it went tearing off to stock up on Cipro when many scientists believed it unnecessary and even dangerous; it wrung...
Flu season is a scary time for asthmatics. They believe--correctly--that the disease can be especially dangerous for them. But many also believe--incorrectly--that the flu shot itself can trigger an asthma attack, which is one of the reasons 9 out of 10 asthmatics pass on getting an...