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Girl 'leukemia free' after being treated with HIV
Ninemsn ^
Posted on 01/26/2013 9:15:32 PM PST by chessplayer
Emma Brooke-Whitehead had undergone extended chemotherapy without success when doctors at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia decided to try the groundbreaking new treatment about eight months ago.
"This treatment was really her only chance," pediatric oncologist Stephen Grupp told ABC News.
The treatment works by using a disabled version of HIV to retrain a patient's disease-fighting white blood cells to kill cancer cells.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.ninemsn.com.au ...
TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: hiv; leukemia
To: chessplayer
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posted on
01/26/2013 9:21:51 PM PST
by
Jonty30
(What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death cults.)
To: chessplayer
Oy vey is this going to become a distorted meme very quickly in the libertine set.
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posted on
01/26/2013 9:21:58 PM PST
by
HiTech RedNeck
(How long before all this "fairness" kills everybody, even the poor it was supposed to help???)
To: HiTech RedNeck
All I was going to say is that finally something good came from monkey sex.
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posted on
01/26/2013 9:33:14 PM PST
by
Mastador1
(I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
To: chessplayer
using the form of HIV to cure cancer—wonderous. God can truly bend evil to His purpose.
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posted on
01/26/2013 9:37:02 PM PST
by
dadfly
To: chessplayer
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posted on
01/26/2013 10:04:35 PM PST
by
KarlInOhio
(Choose one: the yellow and black flag of the Tea Party or the white flag of the Republican Party.)
To: KarlInOhio
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posted on
01/27/2013 12:22:34 AM PST
by
Crazieman
(Are you naive enough to think VOTING will fix this entrenched system?)
To: dadfly
using the form of HIV to cure cancer—wonderous. God can truly bend evil to His purpose.Who was it, again, who developed the concept, submitted the grant-requests, performed the research, carried out the clinical trials, etc.?
Who did the bending?
Regards,
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posted on
01/27/2013 3:58:17 AM PST
by
alexander_busek
(Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
To: chessplayer
It's a good thing this happened now because when Obamacare fully kicks in there will be NO experimental treatments - PERIOD. “Sorry comrade doctor but it is not in book so no one may do such a thing.”
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posted on
01/27/2013 4:15:44 AM PST
by
jmaroneps37
(Conservatism is truth. Liberalism is lies.)
To: jmaroneps37
And that’s the sad truth. Research and pharmaceutical development is about to grind to a halt.
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posted on
01/27/2013 6:04:50 AM PST
by
trimom
To: jmaroneps37
“Sorry comrade doctor but it is not in book so no one may do such a thing.” And, if Mohamhead didn't have it, neither can you.
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posted on
01/27/2013 7:18:39 AM PST
by
Right Wing Assault
(Dick Obama is more inexperienced now than he was before he was elected.)
To: alexander_busek
Who was it that knitted the man who developed the concept, Who inspired those who performed the research, Who created the world so all can pursue their happiness?
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posted on
01/27/2013 11:28:19 AM PST
by
dadfly
To: dadfly
Who was it that knitted the man who developed the concept, Who inspired those who performed the research, Who created the world so all can pursue their happiness?Err... I dunno... Maybe your Big, Invisible Friend in the Sky? Who also "knitted" the HIV virus in the first place?
Regards,
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posted on
01/28/2013 7:46:13 AM PST
by
alexander_busek
(Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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