Tamiflu should be up for government approval in time for this winter's flu season. The National Cancer Institute is working on a breakthrough cancer vaccine for patients with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. Twenty people got the vaccine and boosters after chemotherapy, while they were in remission. Eighteen are still cancer free 4 years later. The vaccine is custom made from the patient's own tumor cells.
Tumor proteins are mixed with ones the immune system naturally fights and reinjected into the body.
The N.C.I. is looking for nearly 400 volunteers who are newly diagnosed with a type of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma for the next phase of the vaccine study. University of Michigan researchers say nurses who wear acrylic nails are more likely to pass germs on to their hospital patients. Seventy-three percent of nurses studied who were wearing fake nails had harmful bacteria on them. The women who weren't wearing acrylics had fewer germs on their fingers before and after washing their hands. For the first time, scientists say they have videotaped cells in the human brain as they change from normal into the plaques linked to Alzheimers.