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Cancer Vaccine Cuts the Risk of Melanoma Recurrence, Merck and Moderna Report

22 October 2026 at 23:48
Merck and Moderna released detailed results on an experimental vaccine to treat the skin cancer.

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Moderna is one of two drugmakers that announced on Thursday the full results of a closely watched trial of an experimental vaccine given to patients with melanoma.

Ebola Outbreak in Africa Reaches Widest Expansion Ever

22 October 2026 at 17:41
Health officials are urgently seeking answers about the origins of a case newly identified in Nigeria, the first in that West African nation.

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Nizamiye Hospital in Abuja, Nigeria, where the country’s first Ebola patient was admitted this week. An African health official said that if authorities could not come up with ways to stamp out the outbreak, “the whole continent can be affected.”
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