Cuba has had a lung cancer vaccine for years
Cuba has had a lung cancer vaccine for years
Ioan Grillo
on Apr 23, 2015 @ 4:57 PM
MEXICO CITY — When Cuba and the United States said they were going to be friends again, images sprang to mind of Americans tanning on once-forbidden beaches, and McDonald’s opening in picturesque Habana Vieja.
That may happen. But this partnership clearly has more promising plans. Turns out Cuba’s been sitting on a breakthrough cancer treatment. Now it’s going to test it out in America.
This week, the Roswell Park Cancer Institute of Buffalo, New York signed an agreement to import a Cuban lung cancer vaccine. The drug CimaVax helps treat symptoms and recurrence, said institute director Candace Johnson, when she returned Tuesday from a two-day trade trip to the island.
“(Lung cancer) patients have a very high risk for recurrence. You have one nodule, you know you are maybe going to be get another nodule. You could take perhaps this vaccine that could help prevent a recurrence,” Johnson told Buffalo TV's WIVB News 4.
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The institute will conduct clinical trials of CimaVax in the United States and seek approval from the Food and Drug Administration, Johnson said. Cuban scientists will also visit Buffalo to help with testing and research.
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http://www.globalpost.com/article/6526566/2015/04/23/cuba-lung-cancer-vaccine-new-york
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He's been an old "exile" ally for years, and was the constant anti-Cuba fighter in the House, backing up his Cuban "exile" House cronies, Miami's Lincoln Diaz-Balart, his brother Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart, and Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, as they all continually waged war against Cuba, striking down attempt after attempt to lift the travel embargo, to close black hole pork barrel propaganda outlets, controlled by Miami "exiles," Radio Marti, and TV Marti, as well as raising funding in the House to back new efforts to destabilize Cubans' government through interfering in it, creating civil problems with professional provocateurs, etc., etc., etc. All in the name of "Democracy" (except when Democracy means a people's choice of socialism over predatory capitalism).
Here's an article on right-wing reactionary congressional response to Obama's openings to Cuba, from last December:
The Insane Republican Reaction to Obama’s Cuba News
By: Hrafnkell Haraldsson more from Hrafnkell Haraldsson
Thursday, December, 18th, 2014, 8:03 am
Cue the trailer to Sony’s new film, The Interview, where James Franco, told he is to assassinate the leader of North Korea, says, “Whaaaaaaaaaat?”
Right. That’s the sane part of the Republican response to President Obama’s announcement yesterday. It’s all downhill from there.
The catalyst for crazy is that the President of the United States, the guy who took out Osama bin Laden, has now ended the U.S. isolation of Cuba. In the bargain, he has freed both a Cuban who had spent 20 years in prison and an American, Alan Gross, who had spent 5 years in prison.
Former Republican Party House Majority Leader Tom DeLay says President Obama “surrendered” to Cuba. That he did it to help his “socialist friends.” This is so vague a complaint, he might be unhappy Obama helped a neighbor keep his libraries open, or his highways operational. All these are familiar elements of socialism in our own country.
But no. DeLay is unhappy that Cuba, that communist thorn in America’s side, might suddenly be friends. If Obama goes around and makes friends out of all our enemies, who are the poor Republicans going to be able to attack? Conservatism, as a defense of the status quo, needs “Others” to demonize. Cuba has been a “cherished” other for many decades, and worse, DeLay has a personal bone to pick:
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http://www.politicususa.com/2014/12/18/insane-republican-reaction-obamas-cuba-news.html
