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Over the years, researchers have tried many different approaches to turn the immune system against cancer, such as cutting the brakes on immune cells, flagging cancer cells for destruction, or genetically engineering a patient’s immune cells to directly target...
1. Make sleep a priority Simply deciding that getting at least 8 hours of sleep a night is going to be one of your health priorities can go a long way. Resist putting work or household chores – or even...
3. New Antibiotic Could Battle Resistant “Superbugs” Scientists in Massachusetts used an electronic chip to grow microbes in their native soil, creating a new antibioticcalled Teixobactin. Believed to have “evolved to be free of resis­tance,” it could be used to...
6. Diabetes Rates Are Falling Substantially in the U.S. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported in December the number of new cases of the disease has fallen by nearly 20% in the last seven years, Americans are drinking 20% less soda...
10. Ex-NASA Engineer to Plant One Billion Trees a Year Using Drones  A start-up plans to help solve the world’s climate problems by using drones to plant forests of seedlings. The environmental engineer who worked 20 years with NASA wants to use...
Sleep does not come easy, Lorrine Rodgers says, when you see yourself dead. “Sometimes when I think the cancer is going to kill me, I have bad dreams, seeing myself lying there in the coffin,” says the 59-year-old grandmother. “My...
Genetically Modified Foods (GMOs): The rapidly growing industry of genetically modified crops are infiltrating our food supply at an alarming rate. More than 90% of our corn and soy are now genetically modified. This fairly new practice is the...
The results are in… These foods aid the battle against cancer and ward off the disease as well, lowering your chance of becoming a cancer patient… #1. Chorella and Spirulina: One of your most powerful weapons against cancer is chlorella. When...
Last year Heather Wascak, a mother of two was diagnosed with Heather Wascak was diagnosed with Stage IIIC fallopian tube cancer while pregnant with her second child. After her daughter's birth she did chemo, only to see the cancer return a few months...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gKusAkNefYQ Yale Scientist Dr. Jill Lacy discusses the development of Immunotherapy for pancreas cancer, the progress that is being made, and provides an update on CRS-207 and GVAX. GVAX is a cancer vaccine composed of whole tumor cells genetically modified to secrete...

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