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Follow the Money: Richard Nixon’s Other Legacy "I will also ask for an appropriation of an extra $100 million to launch an intensive campaign to find a cure for cancer, and I will ask later for whatever additional funds can effectively be used. The time has come in America when the same kind of concentrated effort that split the atom and took man to the moon should be turned toward conquering this dread disease. Let us make a total national commitment to achieve this goal." —Richard Nixon, State of the Union Address, January 22, 1971      In Science Fictions , John Crewdson’s painstakingly detailed account of the questionable work of iconic AIDS researcher Robert C. Gallo, he describes a key financial development that preceded and enabled the rise of Gallo and his AIDS research colleagues. In the early seventies, at the same time as reverse transcriptase was discovered and scientists began to understand how retroviruses work, Richard Nixon declared a...

  What have been the biggest surprises about the virus HHV-8? Some of the biggest surprises about HHV-8 (human herpesvirus 8) have emerged in recent years, especially as research uncovers its mechanisms of cancer causation, immune evasion, and genomic integration. The virus—primarily known for its role in Kaposi's sarcoma—continues to reveal unexpected features and risks. Surprising Mechanisms of Cancer Induction Researchers only recently discovered that HHV-8 manipulates key human enzymes, CDK6 and CAD, to reprogram how infected cells make new nucleotides and metabolize glucose—directly transforming normal cells into cancer cells. This metabolic rewiring by HHV-8 was not anticipated and has become a new focus for antiviral cancer therapy, using drugs that block these pathways and have radically improved outcomes in preclinical models. Genomic Integration and Host-Genome Hijacking Studies in 2023–2024 revealed the first hard evidence that HHV-8 can integrate its genome at specific ...

What is the Second Leading Cause of Cancer; The CBCD Reviews Surprising Data  http://www.prweb.com/releases/2014/06/prweb11958543.htm “Epidemiological data imply that viruses are the second most important risk factor for cancer,” according to a study published on June 6, 2014 in the Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery, and Psychiatry (1). The Center for the Biology of Chronic Disease (CBCD) reviews the medical literature and explains the relationship between cancer and Dr. Hanan Polansky’s discovery. Rochester, NY (PRWEB) June 20, 2014 Science may be finally catching up to the ground breaking ideas presented in Dr. Hanan Polansky’s book, “Microcompetition with Foreign DNA and the Origin of Chronic Disease,” which was published more than 10 years ago. Doctor Dey and his team of researchers suggest that “Epidemiological data imply that viruses are the second most important risk factor for cancer (1).” Yet, Dr. Polansky’s work in 2003 identified latent viruses a...

AIM ImmunoTech Announces Addition of Single-Agent Ampligen Arm to Cancer Center's Ongoing Study in Cancer Patients with COVID-19  OCALA, Fla., March 22, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- AIM ImmunoTech Inc. (NYSE American: AIM) today announced that the Institutional Review Board (IRB) of Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center (Roswell Park) has approved a protocol amendment to Roswell Park's ongoing Phase 1/2a study evaluating the two-drug combination of AIM's Ampligen and interferon alpha-2b as a potential early-onset treatment for patients with cancer and mild-to-moderate COVID-19. The IRB-approved amendment calls for randomization of an additional twenty patients. Ten of these patients will receive a single dose of Ampligen, but no interferon treatment, and the other ten will receive best available care only. Ampligen alone has a generally well-tolerated safety profile with lower risk of adverse events than is generally expected with interferon therapy. "We are excited t...

 From Perplexity A.I. Could one call both AIDS and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome epidemics of oncogenic inflammation? Both AIDS and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS) share connections to chronic inflammation with potential oncogenic implications, but labeling them as "epidemics of oncogenic inflammation" requires careful consideration of their distinct pathophysiological mechanisms and epidemiological profiles. Here's an analysis: Inflammatory Mechanisms HIV/AIDS Chronic inflammation persists even in virally suppressed individuals due to residual immune activation, microbial translocation, and dysregulated cytokine production. Prolonged inflammation increases cancer risk (e.g., lymphoma, Kaposi's sarcoma) through mechanisms like DNA damage and impaired immune surveillance. Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS) Elevated pro-inflammatory cytokines (e.g., TGF-β, IL-1, IFN-γ) correlate with symptom severity. Some studies suggest a link between CFS and lymphoma risk, potentially tied to ...

  HIV & AIDS - Retroviruses: The Recollections of an Electron Microscopist (virusmyth.com) RETROVIRUSES The Recollections of an Electron Microscopist By Etienne de Harven Reappraising AIDS  Nov./Dec. 1998 For an electron microscopist who spent most of his research career studying retroviruses associated with murine leukemias and who followed closely their hypothetical impact on the field of human oncology, it was predictable that contemporary AIDS research was completely on the wrong track. The following "Recollections" are presented to explain why. The importance of electron microscopy in the emergence of modern cell biology, between 1945 and 1965, is unanimously recognized. Unquestionably, the relationships between cell structures and cell functions would never have been elucidated without the high resolving power of the electron microscope (EM). What is less generally recognized, however, is the role virus research had in the study of cell ultrastructure. Historically,...