Killing Cancer Like the Common Cold
It’s a new frontier in the fight against cancer: An experimental therapy aims to “teach” a patient’s own immune system to recognize and kill cancer cells. For Nick Wilkins, a now 15-year-old boy whose leukemia had defied all other attempts at treatment, the investigational therapy was a game-changer: He has now been cancer-free for six months. As reported at the annual…
DDT | Spraying for Polio Over Rockford, Illinois (August 27, 1945)
DDT | Spraying for Polio in San Antonio, Texas (May 27, 1946)
DDT | Spraying for Polio Everywhere (1946)
DDT | Spraying Children for Polio in the United States (1947)
Sting Operation Exposes the Dark Side of Science
Doctors, patients, policymakers and the general public are finding that the integrity of science is questionable, as less people trust journalism and science journals. One 2014 poll found that trust in media dropped 5 percentage points to 52 percent. This also stands true globally, as trust in media has dropped approximately 80 percent across all of the countries surveyed.