May 6, 2025 | Volume XIV | Issue 18

Immunotherapy helps certain cancer patients avoid surgery

CNN Health reports:


Kelly Spill didn’t cry when she was diagnosed with stage III rectal cancer at age 28.


She held her emotions together when her surgeon told her that she might not be able to carry another baby — treatment with radiation can significantly affect fertility — and that she might need to have a colostomy bag attached to her to collect her bodily waste after surgery.


“I didn’t cry at both of those,” said Spill, who at the time was newly engaged and just months postpartum.


“But then I asked [the doctor], ‘Would I still be able to go to Switzerland this summer to get married?’ And he was like, ‘Oh, absolutely not.’ And that’s what really broke me,” she said.

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Trump pick to run DEA could challenge America’s already tense relations with Mexico

Tim Golden | ProPublica


In the spring of 2019, as a new Mexican government shut down most of its cooperation with the United States in the fight against drug trafficking, a small group of American drug agents decided to confront the problem in a different way.


Sifting through databases and court files, they compiled dossiers on Mexican officials suspected of colluding with the mafias. Months later, federal prosecutors used the evidence to indict a former security minister, Genaro García Luna, the most important Mexican figure ever convicted on U.S. drug corruption charges.


The senior agent who led the team, Terrance C. Cole, was not rewarded for his efforts. He sought a promotion to run the Drug Enforcement Administration’s Mexico City office but was passed over. Frustrated with the agency’s direction and his own career trajectory, he retired in 2020 to take a job with a software company before becoming Virginia’s secretary of public safety.

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Why no med mal law firm responded to my scientific protocol

Howard Smith, MD writes for KevinMD:


Doctors are plagued by medical malpractice lawsuits. Every year, there are 85,000 lawsuits filed, of which 66.6 percent are frivolous. Each doctor has an 8.5 percent chance per year of being sued.


In the course of my efforts to make a difference, I personally contact 50 of the nation’s most prestigious medical malpractice law firms, both plaintiff and defense firms.

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The fight against the bird flu

FOX13


Skyrocketing egg prices and tens of millions of dead chickens are both linked to the avian flu that's sweeping the country.


The strain has infected at least 70 people, including one who died earlier this year. There's work underway in Memphis to decode this latest flu strain and help stop the spread.

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