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A similar strategy could lead to vaccines against malaria and TB. But while conquering such hitherto vaccine-resistant diseases would be dramatic, it would be positively revolutionary to extend vaccines to illnesses that have seemed beyond their reach. One such candidate is heart disease--which may involve the immune system...
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...