Advaxis provides update on survival information from ADXS11-001 phase 1 trial in cervix cancer
Advaxis provides update on survival information from ADXS11-001 phase 1 trial in cervix cancer Advaxis, Inc., the live, attenuated Listeria monocytogenes (Lm) immunotherapy company, has updated the survival information from its phase 1 trial of ADXS11-001 which assessed the safety of this agent in advanced, metastatic, progressive cervix cancer in women whose disease progressed subsequent to treatment with cytotoxic therapy. Read more on News-Medical-Net
Lessons learned from H1N1
Lessons learned from H1N1 Health officer says more needs to be done to prepare for pandemics Read more on Sequim Gazette
How to Protect Your Family From Bird Flu — What Your Government Isn’t Telling You
If you want to trust you and your family’s health to the government — you deserve what happens to you. The United States Homeland Security Council in early May 2006 released a 233 page report called the Strategy for Pandemic Influenza Implementation Plan. In many ways, it’s very comprehensive — and it’s a great foundation for protecting ourselves, our families, our nation and our world. But it leaves out a huge portion of the solution to bird flu — “alternative” medicine. There are substances which could greatly increase the virus-zapping power of immune systems of people around the world — at a small fraction of the cost of expensive vaccines and Tamiflu. They could be easily administered by patients and family members. They could easily be distributed and used by everybody from wealthy countries to poor rural farmers. They are not magic bullet, 100% guaranteed cure-alls — but neither are vaccines or Tamiflu. They are not the only useful alternative medicine weapons against bird flu — not by a long shot — but some powerful substances could not be produced or grown in the mass quantities needed to take care of billions of people around the world. I’m not saying [...]
Swine flu absent from disease statistics
Swine flu experts linked to big pharma Trio of scientists who urged stockpiling had previously been paid, says report Scientists who drew up the key World Health Organisation guidelines advising governments to stockpile drugs in the event of a flu pandemic had previously been paid by drug companies which stood to profit, according to a report out today. An investigation by the British Medical Journal and the Bureau of Investigative … Read more on Guardian Unlimited Swine flu absent from disease statistics South Canterbury is swine flu-free. Read more on Timaru Herald
How to Protect Yourself From Bird Flu and Other Infections by Washing Your Hands — the Right Way
OK, so I sound like your mother — I accept that. Only I’m worse than your mother, because I want you to wash your hands more often than your mother did. And for a longer time and more thoroughly. If and when bird flu mutates into a virus that’s contagious between people, we can expect it to spread as easily as ordinary influenza, and the same way ordinary flu does Ordinary flu (and colds too) spreads primarily in two ways: contact spread and airborne spread. Airborne spread means that somebody sheds virus by coughing or sneezing, and the small droplets containing the virus hang in the air, and you breath them in. They can hang there for fifteen minutes or more before drifting to the ground. Experts disagree about whether contact spread or airborne spread causes more new infections of colds and flu. It’s a fact that you can dramatically reduce your chances of catching bird flu, ordinary flu, colds and other commons infections such as caliciviruses which causes nausea (stomach flu) by washing your hands to eliminate the risk of contact spread. It’s true washing your hands won’t help you if a bird flu patient sneezes into your face, [...]