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Cancer vaccine
shows promise
WASHINGTON (AP) -- A first-of-its-kind cancer vaccine is helping significantly reduce the chances that melanoma patients’ tumors return. Drugmakers Moderna and Merck announced the results Thursday.
The vaccine was custom-brewed for each patient to match their tumor. It teaches the patient’s immune system to watch out for and attack any cancer cells that start forming again. Adding it to a standard post-surgery treatment reduced by 42% the risk of melanoma returning two years after surgery, according to the most advanced study to date.
Execution staff warned IV site might have ‘blown’ during Christa Pike’s execution attempt
Execution
team struggled
(AP) -- A court document says Tennessee execution team members failed multiple times to establish working IV lines in Christa Pike’s arms before her attempted execution. The document says team members warned that some of Pike’s veins may have ruptured, or “blown,” before she was injected with pentobarbital.
Pike’s attorney wrote in a declaration filed Thursday that the IV team went through about 10 needles and tried several IV sites on both arms. They even struggled to push saline through the last IV site they established. Pike was hospitalized after surviving two doses of pentobarbital as the state tried to execute her for the 1995 stabbing death of classmate Colleen Slemmer.
Trump backs
Ramaswamy’s ad
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) -- President Donald Trump is urging Vivek Ramaswamy, the Republican nominee for Ohio governor, to keep running a controversial ad. The ad features the estranged mother of Democratic opponent Amy Acton.
Trump criticized Ohio Republican Gov. Mike DeWine, who called the ad “deeply troubling.” DeWine, who endorsed Ramaswamy, urged him to remove the ad but didn’t withdraw his support. The ad has sparked division among Ohio Republicans, with some expressing disgust and others supporting it.
The ad has also drawn national attention, with mixed reactions from conservative media and political figures.
Skerritt
dies at 93
NEW YORK (AP) -- An Emmy-winning actor known for roles in “Top Gun” and “Picket Fences,” Tom Skerritt has died at 93.
His family said in a statement he died Wednesday of natural causes. Skerritt won an Emmy for “Picket Fences” in 1993 and was known for roles in “Turning Point,” “Steel Magnolias,” and “Contact.”
He was once described as a character actor in a leading man’s body. Skerritt also performed onstage, including in “Our Town” and “A Time to Kill.”
His family highlighted his passion for storytelling and helping others.