You may have heard of a treatment for the coronavirus (COVID-19) in the news that sounds unusual. It involves injecting serum from someone who has recovered from COVID-19 into patients who are sick with COVID-19. Nobel Prize This type of treatment actually won Emil von Behring the first Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1901.1 Behring was part of a cohort of...
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Nobel Prize in Medicine, Dr. James Allison and “Hope”
At a press briefing at the International Cancer Immunotherapy Conference in New York, held October 1 just after receiving notification from the Nobel committee, Dr. James Allison said that the prize “should give patients hope because we’ve got things that we know work. If this didn’t work, there would have been no prize.” This “work”...
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