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Social Distancing Can Save Your Life and Someone Else’s

April 15, 2020March 10, 2020 by Nancy R. Gough

Translations: Russian (перевод) | Spanish (Español) | Portuguese (Portugues) For those thinking that COVID-19, the disease caused by the new coronavirus, is not something to worry about, I want to encourage all of you to implement social distancing. If (or when), this virus begins to spread rapidly through the population in the US, the medical … Read more

Using Flu Vaccines to Treat Cancer

January 2, 2020 by Nancy R. Gough

Researchers discovered that injecting inactive flu virus directly into solid tumors triggered a systemic anti-tumor immune response. Thus, seasonal flu vaccines or other inactivated virus vaccines could be repurposed as agents that convert immune “cold” tumors into immune hot ones. Newman and colleagues found that influenza infection, which is respiratory virus that infects the lungs, … Read more