I'm Joe Gradyton and I'm Terry Gradyen welcome to this podcast of the People's Pharmacy.

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Immunotherapy has become the latest innovation for treating cancer.

Why did it take more than a hundred years for this therapy to catch on with oncologists?

This is the People's Pharmacy with Terry and Joe Grayden. At the turn of the 20th century a young cancer doctor in New York City

named William Coley discovered that cancer patients with a nasty infection and a high fever sometimes

saw their tumors shrink and disappear. He turned his discovery into a

surprisingly successful treatment. Have we made any progress since Dr. Coley introduced his

toxin to treat sarcoma? How important is a fever to mobilizing the

immune system against cancer. Coming up on the people's pharmacy will talk about the reinvention of Colese toxins, the first immunotherapy

for cancer.

First the news.

In the People's Pharmacy Health Headlines,

a new study published in Jama suggests that aggressive blood pressure control

may have modest benefit for cognitive

function. In 2010 researchers recruited 9300 people over 50 to

participate in the Sprint trial that stands for systolic blood pressure intervention

trial.

Their participants all had high blood pressure and were randomly assigned to get their blood pressure

down to 120 or under 140. People in the blood pressure

140.

People in the intensive blood pressure control arm

...