BOOK REVIEW POLIO AN AMERICAN STORY BY DAVID M.OCHINSKY PHAR 6605 Pharmaceutical Industry structure and government regulations
PRESENTED BY: Asakiran Nadikatla
PRESENTED TO: Gerard Cleaves
Polio an American story is a scholarly readable and informative book which covers the lives of many American eminent scientists who struggled a lot to eradicate polio. This book mainly focuses on the mid twentieth century where the people are very eager to find a vaccine to eradicate polio .This book also covers the entire topics from appearance of polio symptoms to post polio syndrome which shows the valuable thesis done by David M. Oshinsky.
Throughout this book he has mined the personal lives of Albert Sabin, Jonas Salk, Thomas…show more content… Not only this he also included development of polio vaccine and different phases of development were clearly written by him.
Nevertheless Oshinsky has written valuable informative book which is carefully researched and very well documented. He has presented history about the researchers in twentieth century campaign to eradicate polio. Finally he devoted this book to the highly efficient researchers for their life saving vaccines.
Genetically modified T cells kills tumors in leukemia patients
Cancer treatment is becoming more advanced now a days, The university of Pennsylvania cancer center and Perelman school of medicine have introduced more advanced therapy in treating cancer here the patients were treated with their own genetically modified T cells this treatment involves isolating patients cells and modifying them in penns vaccine production and infusing these genetically modified t cells into the patient’s body followed by chemotherapy which helps a lot in treating cancer including lungs, ovaries, myeloma and melanoma. These findings are published in the New England journal of Medicine here the first focus of gene transfer therapy to create serial killer T cells aimed at removing tumors within three weeks the tumors has been disappeared. It worked better than we
