There have been some remarkable advances in medicine over the past two decades. HIV infection is no longer a death sentence. Hepatitis C is now readily curable. There is now a vaccine to prevent cervical cancer—one of only two cancer vaccines in existence. Targeted approaches to cancer, as well as the use of genetic information for personalizing therapies for individual patients have the potential to completely change the way that cancer — and maybe other diseases — are treated.
But, science is unpredictable. There are still diseases that simply won’t yield, despite the huge amount of research that is thrown at them.
Influenza is one of them. Continue reading
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