Interesting new development in understanding the potential of mRNA vaccines. Hope RFK Jr. doesn’t find out, he wants all such research eliminated. Kennedy’s is not going to like this one bit. He will no doubt attempt to end such research. The Trump administration has made it clear that it is against cancer research. Because: AHA! MAHA!
An analysis of patient records suggests that mRNA covid-19 vaccines boost the immune response to cancerous tumours when given soon after people start a type of immunotherapy, extending their lives
www.newscientist.com
The mRNA covid-19
vaccines seem to have an unexpected benefit: extending the lives of people being treated for cancers by boosting the effectiveness of immunotherapy.
An analysis of the records of nearly 1000 people being treated for advanced skin and lung cancers shows those who were given an mRNA covid-19 vaccine within 100 days of starting drugs called immune checkpoint inhibitors lived nearly twice as long as people who did not get vaccinated within this time. The findings will now be confirmed in a clinical trial that is due to start before the end of the year.
The innovative messenger RNA (mRNA) vaccines that thwarted the ravages of COVID-19 may also help fight tumors in cancer patients, according to a new analysis of medical records and studies in mice.
People with cancer who coincidentally received the mRNA shots before starting drugs designed to unleash the immune system against tumors lived significantly longer than those who didn’t get vaccinated, a research team announced yesterday at the
European Society for Medical Oncology Congress in Berlin. Laboratory experiments by the group suggest the vaccines rev up the immune system, making even stubborn tumors more susceptible to treatment.
The findings underscore the still-untapped potential of mRNA technology at a time when President Donald Trump’s administration has backed away from funding the area. “I think this data is extraordinary,” says Ryan Sullivan, an oncologist and immunologist at Massachusetts General Hospital who wasn’t involved in the new research. Although the analysis of cancer patient data was retrospective, he notes that the observed association between COVID-19 vaccination and improved survival “is very strong.”
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Trump and RFK Jr. Putting ignorance ahead of knowledge. This is MAHA: defund cancer research and kill Americans. Strange way to make America healthy again! To say the least.
President Trump’s Administration is imposing a new policy to cap indirect costs for National Institutes of Health (NIH) research grants at 15 percent, which would cut billions of dollars in funding for life-saving research to develop cures and treatments for diseases. Under the leadership of...
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Attempting to eliminate funding for certain kinds of “woke” studies, the Trump administration erased hundreds of millions of dollars being used for cancer research.
www.wired.com
This is an integral part of MAHA, which is RFK Jr.’s effort to bring American medical science back to the Middle Ages.
MAHA will kill more Americans than it will save.
And this too is MAHA. MAHA is an acronym without meaning. The last thing MAHA will ever do is “make America healthy again”. It’s designed to make Americans more sick.
The Trump administration’s actions sowed fear and confusion among CDC scientists that kept them from performing the agency’s key function: emergency response.
www.latimes.com
- A measles outbreak in Texas this year became the worst the United States has endured in more than three decades.
- Under pressure, the CDC did not proactively reach out to local health authorities. “My staff feels like we are out here all alone,” said one local health director.
As measles surged in Texas early this year, the Trump administration’s actions sowed fear and confusion among Centers for Disease Control and Prevention scientists that kept them from performing the agency’s most critical function — emergency response — when it mattered most, an investigation from KFF Health News shows.
The outbreak soon became the worst the United States has endured in more than three decades.
In the month after Donald Trump took office, his administration
interfered with CDC communications,
stalled the federal agency’s
reports,
censored its data and abruptly
laid off staff. In the chaos, agency experts felt restrained from talking openly with local public health workers, according to interviews with seven CDC officials with direct knowledge of events, as well as local health department emails obtained by KFF Health News through public records requests.
“CDC hasn’t reached out to us locally,” Katherine Wells, the public health director in Lubbock, Texas, wrote in a Feb. 5 email exchange with a colleague two weeks after children with measles were hospitalized in Lubbock. “My staff feels like we are out here all alone,”
she added.
A child would die before CDC scientists contacted Wells.
“All of us at CDC train for this moment, a massive outbreak,” one CDC researcher told KFF Health News, which agreed not to name CDC officials who fear retaliation for speaking with the press. “All this training and then we weren’t allowed to do anything.”