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Shot that stops many deadly forms of cancer may be ready in 5 years

From a NYDailyNews.com article:

The vaccine, effective against deadly cancers in areas of the body like the breast, bowel and cervix, is being tested on some patients, according to the Daily Mail. The vaccine, which is being developed with Celldex Therapeutics, a U.S. company, revs up the immune system and tells it to destroy a hormone called hCG. That hormone, normally present only during pregnancy, is also made by about half of patients who have bladder and pancreatic cancer, and some people who have breast, bowel, ovarian and cervical tumors.
The shot shrinks the tumors and stops them from spreading.
“Not only are you causing the cancer to shrink, it is not metastazising,” Middlesex University Professor Ray Iles, creator of the vaccine, told the Daily Mail. “If you come in with chemotherapy and surgery, you’ve got a cure.”

Also posted in Greek news (toVima.gr)

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Lack of Vitamin D linked to Parkinson’s disease risk

To further add to a previous post on Vitamin D3, here’s some more research results:

From Yahoo News:

Greater levels of vitamin D have been linked to a lower risk of Parkinson‘s disease in a study in Finland where low sunlight leads to a chronic lack of the nutrient, researchers said Monday.

Scientists from the National Institute for Health and Welfare, Helsinki, Finland, first hypothesized that Parkinson’s “may be caused by a continuously inadequate vitamin D status leading to a chronic loss of dopaminergic neurons in the brain.”

After adjusting for potentially related factors, including physical activity and body mass index, those with the highest levels of vitamin D (top 25 percent of the group) were found to have a 67 percent lower risk of developing Parkinson’s disease than those with the lowest level of the vitamin (bottom 25 percent), the study said.

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Βιταμίνη D3: το καλύτερα κρυμμένο μυστικό της φαρμακοβιομηχανίας;

Απ’ ό,τι φαίνεται, η βιταμίνη D και οι ιδιότητές της, αποτελούν ένα από τα καλύτερα κρυμμένα μυστικά της εποχής μας. Γιατί όμως το λέμε αυτό;

Ήταν ήδη γνωστό ότι η D έπαιζε σημαντικό ρόλο στην υγεία των οστών. Ωστόσο, όλο και περισσότερες έρευνες δείχνουν ότι, η στέρηση του οργανισμού από αυτή τη βιταμίνη, μέσω της παρεμπόδισης ενός βιολογικού μηχανισμού εκατομμυρίων ετών, έχει επιπτώσεις που πάνε πέρα από την υγεία των οστών και, μάλιστα, πολύ παραπέρα απ’ όσο θα μπορούσε να φανταστεί κανείς…

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