Enlarge / The famous Easter candy Peeps, made by Just Born Quality Confections, are displayed on April 7, 2023 in New York, US. Consumer Reports announced in a recent press release that it had contacted Just Born Quality Confections earlier this year about concerns over the company’s use of red dye No. 3 in the ..
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Enlarge / Bottles of MMS, the bleach product that Genesis II Church of Health and Healing was ordered to stop selling. reader comments 126 with A federal judge in Miami has handed down years-long prison sentences to a Florida father and his three adult sons who were convicted in July of using a faux church ..
Enlarge / This microscopy image shows a cytotoxic T cell (blue) attacking a cancer cell (green) by releasing toxic chemicals (red). Alex Ritter, Jennifer Lippincott Schwartz, and Gillian Griffiths/National Institutes of Health reader comments 84 with A key function of our immune system is to detect and eliminate foreign pathogens such as bacteria and viruses. ..
Enlarge / Bottles of Diet Coke, which contains aspartame. reader comments 186 with The World Health Organization’s cancer agency released an anticipated assessment late last week, finding that the common artificial sweetener aspartame “possibly” has the ability to cause cancer—specifically, a type of liver cancer called hepatocellular carcinoma. The assessment, leaked to Reuters in June, ..
Enlarge / A pharmacy technician holds up a dose of paclitaxel and carboplatin to be verified before being delivered to the patient. reader comments 107 with For cancer patients in the US right now, a horrifying reality may follow the devastating diagnosis—their malignant disease may go undertreated or even untreated. The country is in the ..
Enlarge / Grail is a subsidiary of Illumina, the world’s biggest gene sequencing company. reader comments 3 with More than 400 patients who signed up to take a pioneering oncology detection test developed by US biotech company Grail received erroneous letters last month suggesting they may have developed cancer. According to an internal company document ..
reader comments 24 with 0 posters participating Share this story Last week, researchers published the results of a clinical trial that used CRISPR gene editing to create a large population of cancer-targeting immune cells. The trial was short, and the reprogrammed immune cells weren’t especially effective against the cancer. But the technology, or something similar, ..
Aurich Lawson | Getty Images reader comments 92 with 75 posters participating, including story author Share this story On Monday, US President Joe Biden will announce more information on his plan to end cancer. The president will use the 60th anniversary of President Kennedy’s legendary speech about putting a man on the Moon to name ..
Enlarge / These rodents seemingly manage to avoid developing cancer. reader comments 74 with 51 posters participating Share this story Cancer is a sad fact of life, as nearly 40 percent of people are diagnosed with it at some point in their lives. But humans aren’t alone in this. Many different species can also develop ..
Enlarge / A pharmacist holding a vial of the undiluted Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine for COVID-19. reader comments 169 with 73 posters participating Share this story Covid-19 Coverage View more stories Update 8/13/2021 9:30 am ET: Just before midnight on Thursday, the Food and Drug Administration updated the emergency use authorizations for both the Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna ..