By DONALD G. McNEIL Jr. from NYT Health https://ift.tt/2y7BFPJ
Monday, 1 October 2018
Over 80,000 Americans Died of Flu Last Winter, Highest Toll in Years
By DONALD G. McNEIL Jr. from NYT Health https://ift.tt/2y7BFPJ
Breakthrough Leukemia Treatment Backfires in a Rare Case
By DENISE GRADY from NYT Health https://ift.tt/2NVE6Qq
Spinal Implants 'Very Promising' for Paralysis
Researchers are cautiously optimistic after paralyzed patients took steps on their own in two studies of spinal cord stimulators.
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Nobel Prize Goes to Cancer Immunotherapy Pioneers
Two cancer researchers -- James P. Allison, PhD, of the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, and Tasuku Honjo, MD, PhD, of Kyoto University in Japa-- received the 2018 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discovering how the immune system can be harnessed to attack tumor cells, a finding that led to the development of immunotherapy drugs.
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