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Toward a universal flu virus vaccine

News: Pandemics    February 7, 2011
If the vaccine developed by a team at Oxford University (UK) passes successfully through all the phases of human testing, this will really be big news. As it is, it is an enormously hopeful development toward the control of human influenza (the flu) and the threat of pandemics. Fighting flu viruses is like going after [...]
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First ‘cancer vaccine’ approved in U.S.

Impact: Major Disease Cures    May 1, 2010
In a way, it is something of a milestone along the road to treating one of mankind’s worst diseases – cancer. The formal approval of an anti-cancer ‘vaccine’ (I’ll explain the quotation marks shortly) is a first for the United States, and as such is a signal to the rest of the world that treatment [...]
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Pandemic postmortems

Impact: Pandemics    January 17, 2010
The thing about pandemics is that they don’t always pan out. If they rated pandemics on a scale of 1 to 10 (which they don’t), how far down on the scale before it’s hardly a pandemic? How high on the scale and people blame the medical community for failing to raise enough warning? Every time [...]
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