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‘Completely #unethical’: Women excluded from life-saving vaccine
Women in #Scotland are being left at risk of a killer #cancer because of the refusal to fund a preventative #vaccine through the #NHS, according to a leading #medical ethicist.
Females aged 26-45 are currently excluded from the #HPV vaccine which protects against #cervical cancer and genital warts even though it is offered to men in high-risk groups in the same age category.
https://www.thenational.scot/news/25029802.completely-unethical-women-excluded-life-saving-vaccine/
#SaveOurNHS #PeopleNotProfit #PeopleNotGreed #HealthCare #OurNHS
‘Completely unethical’: Women excluded from life-saving vaccine
WOMEN in Scotland are being left at risk of a killer cancer because of the refusal to fund a preventative vaccine through the NHS, according to a…Nan Spowart (The National)
Israeli troops advance further into Gaza, blowing up cancer hospital
#Israeli forces advanced deeper into the #Gaza Strip on Friday and blew up the only specialised #cancer #hospital in the war-torn territory.
The hospital was located in the #Netzarim Corridor, which splits Gaza in two and was controlled by Israeli troops for most of the 17-month-long war. Israel moved to retake the corridor this week shortly after breaking the ceasefire with #Hamas. The truce delivered relative calm to Gaza since late January and facilitated the release of more than two dozen hostages
La pollution éternelle des PFAS, 'le plus grand crime du siècle' (4/4) - RTBF Actus
'PFAS : la dépollution éternelle' (4/4). Dans les premiers épisodes de l’enquête du Forever Lobbying Project, la...Romane Bonnemé (RTBF.be)
Article can be found here: https://newsroom.ucla.edu/releases/ucla-designed-implantable-device-combats-cancer
#GoodNews #Cancer #AnimalResearchSavesLives
Tiny implantable device designed by UCLA scientists helps kill cancer
A therapeutic sponge the size of a pencil eraser boosted the body’s tumor-fighting response in mice and kept the cancer from returningWayne Lewis (UCLA)
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#Google had a confidential plan to turn the collection—slivers of skin, #tumor biopsies & slices of organs from #veterans—into an immense archive that could help create tools to aid the diagnosis & treatment of #cancer & other #diseases. And it would seek first, exclusive dibs to do so.
“The chief concern,” Google’s liaison in the #military warned, “is keeping this out of the press.”
#privacy #ethics #DOD #Health
https://www.propublica.org/article/google-human-tissue-jpc-military?utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
Google’s Quest to Digitize Valuable Military Tissue Samples
Staff at the DOD’s Joint Pathology Center have thwarted Google’s efforts to digitize priceless data from veterans’ tissue samples. The tech giant might win anyway.ProPublica