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NAMI: Case Rates Among Meat & Poultry Workers 60% Lower Than US Population

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Data shows that COVID-19 infection rates among US meat & poultry workers are also two-thirds lower than they were last May.

How Scientists Shot Down Cancer’s ‘Death Star’ – The New York Times

Amgen’s drug is not as drastically effective as some new cancer medicines, said Dr. Bruce Johnson, the chief clinical research officer at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston. But in combination with other drugs, those targeting specific mutations can change the course of the disease in many patients, he added.

For example, drugs targeting specific mutations in melanoma patients at first seemed unimpressive, but when combined with other medicines, they eventually changed prospects for patients with this deadly disease.

“The more I looked at it, the more optimistic I became,” Dr. Johnson said of Amgen’s new data.

While the KRAS G12C mutation is most common in lung cancer, it also occurs in other cancers, especially in colorectal cancer, where it is found in up to 3 percent of tumors, and particularly in pancreatic cancer. Ninety percent of those patients carry the mutation.

Texas Republicans endorse legislation to allow vote on secession from US

They have shown true traitorous colors.

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State’s part chairman, Allen West, is latest Republican to come out in support of declaring Texas an independent nation

The Texas Republican party has endorsed legislation that would allow state residents to vote whether to secede from the United States.

In a talk show interview, party chair Allen West argued that: “Texans have a right to voice their opinions on [this] critical issue”.

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