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FOR decades, a deadly type of childhood cancer has eluded science’s best tools. Now doctors have made progress with an unusual treatment: Dripping millions of copies of a virus directly into kids’ brains to infect their tumors and spur an immune system attack. A dozen children treated this way lived more than twice as long as similar patients have in the past, doctors reported on Saturday at an American Association for Cancer Research conference and in the New England Journal of Medicine. Although most of them eventually died of their disease, a few are alive and well several years after treatment — something virtually unheard of in this situation. “This is the first step, a critical step,” said the study’s leader, Dr. Gregory Friedman, a childhood cancer specialist at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. “Our goal is to improve on this,” possibly by trying it when patients are first diagnosed or by combining it with other therapies to boost the immune system, he said. The ... » Learn More about Unusual treatment shows promise for cancer

SINGAPORE - Hand sanitiser vending machines said to be the first of their kind in the world went into action across Singapore on Monday (April 12). Every household in the Republic is allowed to collect 500ml of zero-alcohol cleanser for free. Retiree Liong Lai Fong, 79, visited Block 565, Choa Chu Kang Street 52 to pick hers up. She said in Mandarin: "I came to collect the hand sanitiser today because it was written on the utilities bill." The Temasek Foundation initiative - the second of its kind - uses machines that mix sanitiser concentrate with clean water and dispense the ready-to-use product into reusuable bottles. The vending machines were designed by the foundation, which said that they were the first in the world to automate the entire process. A spokesman told ST that the zero-alcohol sanitiser being distributed had a new formulation with a higher concentration of benzalkonium chloride, which is recognised by the National Environment Agency as being effective ... » Learn More about Singapore-designed hand sanitiser vending machines in operation across the island

Project Pink: Breast Cancer Awareness Program for Teachers, one of the signature Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) programs of City Savings Bank, Inc. (CitySavings), are nationwide on-ground seminars specifically designed for public school teachers to raise their level of awareness on the prevention and early detection of breast cancer. This year, the event was held online for the first time, in partnership with the Ramon Aboitiz Foundation Inc. — Eduardo J. Aboitiz Cancer Center (RAFI — EJACC). More than 500 educators from all over the country joined the Bbank’s two webinars held on March 18 and 26, coinciding with CitySavings’ celebration of National Women’s Month with the goal to create programs that educate and empower women, especially teachers. The event’s keynote speaker Dr. Amabelle Gerona, an oncologist based in Cebu City discussed how teachers can detect, confirm, prevent, and treat breast cancer. She said, “A part of the reason why our (breast cancer) cases are high ... » Learn More about CitySavings’ Project Pink Webinar reaches hundreds of educators nationwide