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FINANCE AND CAUTIONS

MoneyMistakes: 1. Never borrow money with interest to start a business (except for salary loans); only borrow to grow your business. This is because business takes a long time to gain ground and begin making profit yet for most of the loans you begin paying back a month later or even earlier. Hence,  never borrow to start a business expecting that business to be the one to pay back the borrowed money plus the interest.

USE OF IMMUNE SYSTEM TO FIGHT CANCER, SHOWS SIGNIFICANT PROMISE

What if the power to fight cancer more effectively was within you? Researchers are trying to harness that superpower, by studying how a patient’s own immune system battles cancer. “Immunotherapy is a more natural way of treating cancer, rather than attacking the cancer cells with chemicals,” said Dr. Bruno Bastos, an oncologist with the Maroone Cancer Center at Cleveland Clinic Florida. “Immunotherapy allows the patient's own immune system to do the job it is supposed to do, which is to fight the cancer.”

HEALTH: Ebola Virus Doesn't Infect Immune Cells, But It Does Kill Them!

How does the Ebola virus prevent immune cells from doing their job - protecting the body from infection - if it doesn’t actually invade them? In a new study from the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston and their collaborators, researchers investigate a unique ability of Ebola, with hope that the solution could be translated into clinical practice for new Ebola virus treatments.