Small Cancer Trial Yields Amazing Results, Remission for All Patients

A recent trial for a cancer drug yielded some amazing results for those that participated.  Complete remission for every patient.  It was a very small trial with only 18 patients with rectal cancer, so caution is encouraged as much work needs to be done to replicate the results, but there has been no other study in which a treatment completely removed cancer in every patient.  Gina Kolata, medical reporter at the NY Times, joins us for what we know about the latest study.

Next, we have seen what has been going on in the housing market and with sky high rents, but all these increases are also hitting one of the country’s most affordable housing options… mobile homes.  Costs of manufactured homes are on the rise, but so is the rent for the land that they sit on.  In some cases, those costs are doubling or tripling.  Abha Bhattarai, economics correspondent at the Washington Post, joins us for how high demand, low inventory and corporate owners are impacting it all.

Finally, vaccine experts advising the FDA have endorsed a new Covid vaccine made by Novavax saying that the shot’s benefits outweigh any risks associated with it.  The vaccine will still need full approval before coming on the market, but it will be the first one available using a more traditional, protein-based technology.  Liz Essley Whyte, reporter at the WSJ, joins us for what to know about its effectiveness and concerns.

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