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...Prevention (CDC) now recommends for all adults 60 and older. The vaccine isn't perfect, but it seems to decrease the target group's risk approximately 50%. Still, it may not be for you. If you have ever had a serious allergic reaction to gelatin or the antibiotic neomycin, you should not get the vaccine. If you have a disease affecting your immune system, like cancer or HIV/AIDS, you should opt out as well. And because the CDC recommendation is so new - it was announced this spring - you might want to check whether the $150 shot is covered by insurance...
That is where gene transplants come in. Anderson has developed a technique using a "marker" that will let Rosenberg follow the progress of the TILs. The marker is the E. coli gene that makes a cell resistant to the antibiotic neomycin. Anderson has been able to tuck that bacterial gene into a virus and then implant the virus into TILs. Once inside the TILs, the gene becomes fully functional...
...upcoming experiment, Rosenberg plans to inject ten terminally ill patients with TILs carrying the marker. Periodically, he will remove bits of tumor from the subjects and douse the samples in neomycin. If some cells survive the dosing, he will know the TILs have reached the tumor...
Using U.S. students in Mexico City as willing guinea pigs, Dr. Kean and colleagues tested the value of drugs as preventives. They found that a popular nonprescription item, Entero-Vioform, gave no more protection than an inert (dummy) pill; an antibiotic, neomycin, appeared to give about 40% protection. But before they prescribe free-for-all use of such potent drugs as antibiotics and sulfas, the researchers want to know more about many factors, including viruses, as causes of globetrotters' trots...
Every week U.S. physicians are being bombarded with samples and ads of prefabricated antibiotic combinations-penicillin with novobiocin, neomycin with bacitracin, oleandomycin with tetracycline, and dozens more. In addition, antibiotics are offered in combination with the sulfas or with unrelated items-anti-histamines, hormones, vitamins. Just how good are these package drugs...