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Najít Technologies Partners With ABL for Development of Novel Vaccine Platform
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March 5, 2018 (Rockville, MD) – ABL, Inc. (ABL) is working with Najít Technologies, Inc. (Najít) to advance the development of Najít's novel HydroVax™ vaccine platform. ABL will utilize its GMP manufacturing expertise for the advanced development of virus-based vaccine candidates to protect against a number of emerging and re-emerging infectious...
March 5, 2018 (Rockville, MD) – ABL, Inc. (ABL) is working with Najít Technologies, Inc. (Najít) to advance the development of Najít's novel HydroVax™ vaccine platform. ABL will utilize its GMP manufacturing expertise for the advanced development of virus-based vaccine candidates to protect against a number of emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases. The scalable GMP process will be based on Najít's proprietary platform designed to optimize immunogenicity through use of inactivated viruses.
Under the agreement, ABL will produce multiple vaccine candidates using Najít's HydroVax™ technology. Services include process development, production of well-characterized virus seeds, bulk drug substance and aseptic fill/finish. Currently, four vaccines are in development for protection against Chikungunya virus (CHIKV), Zika virus (ZIKV), Dengue virus (DENV) and yellow fever virus (YFV) infections. ABL previously worked on Najít's platform technology for a YFV vaccine and will look to leverage the existing processes and protocols established at ABL to streamline development of an effective new YFV vaccine, as well as subsequent vaccine candidates.
The Najít platform is aimed at enabling more rapid vaccine development using a novel oxidation-based vaccine production system, HydroVax™. This exciting new platform uses hydrogen peroxide to inactivate viruses and other microbes, while maintaining neutralizing epitopes and inducing strong immune responses. Other advantages include vaccine formulations with improved stability at room temperature with the potential to eliminate cold chain requirements. This is especially important for vaccine storage and availability in endemic countries with little or no cold chain infrastructure, and these inactivated vaccines provide a safety profile that is suitable for immunizing vulnerable or immunocompromised populations.
This program has the potential to establish a platform process for Najít's technology, which would promote more rapid development of vaccines when needed most. "As new emerging diseases surface every year, some are causing pandemics for which the traditional product development timeline of 5-10 years for an effective vaccine will be woefully late, as with the recent Zika and Ebola outbreaks," ABL's President and CEO Dr. Thomas VanCott reflected. "ABL has been working to prevent emerging and reemerging diseases for decades, and we offer our deep expertise in viral vaccine process development and GMP production to bolster Najít's candidate development."
According to the CDC, more than $3.6 billion was spent to fight the 2014 Ebola epidemic, yet over 11,000 people died. Only a few years later, the 2016 Zika outbreak resulted in more than 217,000 cases with a short-term economic impact in the Latin America and Caribbean region of $3.5 billion (Colon-Gonzales, et al. 2017 PLOS), highlighting the need for rapid vaccine development platforms.
The vaccine platform technology at Najít fits this unmet need, with the ability to generate new vaccines quickly.
"Our primary focus has been to rapidly develop vaccines against potentially dangerous viruses that impact many developing countries and are encountered by international travelers," noted Dr. Mark Slifka, President and Chief Scientific Officer at Najít. "For example, CHIKV is known to cause painful arthritic disease, but you may not realize that in 2017 it also killed about 1 out of every 1,800 infected people. Zika, on the other hand, needs no introduction as many people have seen how devastating this virus can be, especially among pregnant women in terms of causing terrible birth defects including microcephaly."
Slifka noted the importance of having the right partner. "We were very selective in identifying a qualified partner on these projects and we are fortunate to be working with such an experienced cGMP manufacturer as ABL. Developing safe and effective vaccines is a complex process and through our knowledge of vaccine development, coupled with ABL's manufacturing expertise, we are looking forward to bringing several new vaccines to the clinic." Slifka went on to say, "Based on the success that we have had with ABL, I believe that we are ready to tackle even bigger problems. Influenza for example, has been on our radar for some time, and our latest preliminary data indicates that we may be on the verge of solving the flu puzzle by developing a greatly improved seasonal flu vaccine in addition to designing a novel form of universal flu vaccine with the potential to prevent future pandemics."
About ABL
ABL, Inc. is a global biomedical contract research and manufacturing organization dedicated to advancing therapeutics, vaccines and other biologic products. ABL has extensive experience working with diverse organizations including industry, government and academic entities. ABL maintains GMP facilities meeting U.S. and European regulatory standards, providing process and assay development, cGMP manufacturing of bulk drug substance, cGMP aseptic fill and finish of drug product, and QC bioanalytical testing. Our U.S. and European immunological and molecular laboratories support clients' preclinical and GCLP clinical sample processing and testing needs. ABL is a part of the Institut Mérieux, a group of companies dedicated to developing translational science for better patient care globally.
For more information visit www.ablinc.com or contact us.
About Najít
Najít Technologies, Inc. is a clinical-stage vaccine development company founded in 2004. The company's platform technology, termed HydroVax™, relies upon a proprietary approach of using oxidation-based inactivation of viruses to produce inactivated vaccines with improved structural integrity and enhanced immunological potency. The Mission of the company is to develop safe and effective vaccines against infectious diseases of global importance.
For more information visit http://www.najittech.com.
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Oliver Sechtings head is full. With the number that has a grip on him. She puts him in fear of death, brings him in greatest danger. If he sees you, something Bad happens, he is convinced. First, he will lose his friends. Then the cancer will come. Then the death. 58, the number is, it lurks everywhere. At house of doors, on posters, in the Café.
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Not only Figures from the 43-Year-old greatest Fears, but also colors. He sees Red and Black, he needs to neutralize the color combination also the best with White. Blow nose sometimes helps, with a white handkerchief. Or 250 milliliters of milk to drink. Milk because of the color. 250 Milliliter, because the sum is 7.
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"Magical obsessive thoughts are a Form of obsessive-compulsive disorder," explains Wolf Hartmann, CEO of the German company compulsive disorders (DGZ). According to estimates, two percent of the people in Germany are affected by such a fault – the number of unreported cases, according to Hartmann, probably higher. Because many went to a doctor, when the thoughts affect your everyday life significantly.
In this case, the phenomenon is probably familiar to everyone. "The scheme is similar to the black cat to bring bad luck, if you are running from the right of the road," says Wolf Hartmann. What is faith for Healthy play with this but, random people with magic obsessive thoughts out of control.
As in the case of Oliver, Pierre-Henry. "To me, it is clear that the number 58, can not cause my death," says the Berliner. "But the fear is so overpowering that I must pursue my constraints. I'm at your mercy." So, since then, he is 11 years old.
It all started with the little quirks, tells of the social pedagogue. "I'm not entered, for example, the joints between paving stones." Then he had experiences as a Teenager, two incisive: His father died of cancer. In addition, it was clear to him that he is gay. "I was sad because of my father and tried to hide my homosexuality," recalls Pierre-Henry.
The result is that the constraints taken by the Power. As his behavior became more noticeable, shifting the Boy in his rituals in the head.
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Why and how the disease develops is not known. "We assume that several factors need to come together," explains choice-cordon. "Probably forced based thoughts to a genetic predisposition. A trigger is added, for example, a dramatic life event, can break out of the disease."
This is done according to the choice-cordon insidiously. "Most of the patients are treated, on average, ten to twelve years after the outbreak of the disease right," says the psychiatrist. Often, the disease will not be detected or misdiagnosed as psychosis or schizophrenia diagnosed. Oliver Pierre-Henry 22 years passed until he got help. Since then, he has completed countless therapies, he also takes medication for depression, which he developed as a result of his disease.
"Magical obsessive thoughts can best be achieved with behavioural therapy treat," says psychologist Thomas Hillebrand from Münster. It is important to confront the Concerned and gentle with the thoughts. "The Patient always has its Charms, is the fear in many cases less," explains Hillebrand.
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Individual must work together with the doctor decide whether, in addition, medicines are given. "It is important that the disease is detected early. Often the Fears are so intense, and you can adjust quickly." The prognosis of obsessive thoughts, was basically good.
Oliver Pierre-Henry confronted with his thoughts. The Fears are no longer since then, so strong but not disappeared. Still Pierre-Henry rewinds his rituals several hundred Times a day. He would only feel in a white room. Nevertheless, he's holed up.
"Then exactly that would happen, what I want to prevent my rituals. I would be lonely." Since then, he has realized that his life is a little easier. About his history, he has written a book. And if it all goes well for him correctly, then he wears even Shirt a black-and-red T -. A huge Overcoming. But on some days he keeps it.
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£5 million deal mobilises UK airspace for uncrewed aerial vehicles and creates pathway for widescale drone usage
BT Group and Altitude Angel deal to support development of UK's drone superhighway
London, 3 January 2023 – Etc., the incubation team in BT Group's Digital unit boosting the businesses of the future, today announces that it has entered into a £5 million deal with Altitude Angel, a world-leading UTM (Unified Traffic Management) technology provider, as the two businesses scale the UK drone industry and support the development of the UK's drone superhighway, set to be the largest and longest network of its kind in the world.
UTM is the software platform and infrastructure needed to allow drones to fly safely, without a pilot, over large distances. The £5 million deal will accelerate Altitude Angel's roll-out of its transformative ARROW technology, which detects and identifies drones, while also enabling drones to share the airspace with crewed aviation safely and securely.
The deal is a critical stepping stone in enabling Altitude Angel to scale its technology to allow long distance drone flights, supporting the potential for faster delivery of essential and non-essential items and unlocking an industry estimated to be worth £45bn by 2030*. The deal is crucial to drone innovation, supporting commercial and retail use cases, but also enabling drones to transform how essential services function – from supporting the emergency services with real-time search and rescue, fast transportation of medical supplies, farming analysis, and architectural planning.
Following the earlier success of Project Xcelerate, a consortium led by BT Group and Altitude Angel, the relationship has continued to grow under Project Skyway, the largest and longest network of drone superhighways in the world, which is backed by the UK government's Future Flight programme. ARROW, developed by Altitude Angel, is the foundation technology on which Project Skyway is being built, creating a 165-mile drone corridor spanning airspace above Reading, Oxford, Milton Keynes, Cambridge, Coventry, and Rugby.
Under the deal, BT Group will provide connectivity, network infrastructure and its scalability experience to deploy and maintain Altitude Angel's ARROW tower network. Furthermore, BT Group will be the key reseller of Altitude Angel's software in addition to providing commercial support for drone deliveries in retail and automated, smart drone inspections of critical infrastructure. This leading technology will facilitate smart city development plus provide enhanced capabilities for emergency services and the Defence community.
The financial backing will allow Altitude Angel to accelerate its plans for the Skyway corridor beyond the planned 165-miles, to thousands of miles of Skyway infrastructure connecting towns and cities as well as transport and package delivery hubs, across the country, which in-turn will allow the UK to unlock the multi-£billion drone economy.
Richard Parker, CEO and founder, Altitude Angel comments, "With BT Group, Altitude Angel has a partner which shares its ambition to make automated commercial drone operations at scale in the UK a day-to-day reality. Combining our ARROW technology, which allows crewed and uncrewed aircraft to share the same skies, safely and securely, with BT Group's significant communications infrastructure, we can quickly bring ARROW to the masses. This will provide the UK with the first nationwide drone superhighways, unlocking the potential of this new and innovative technology and revolutionising business operations in countless industries."
Tom Guy, Managing Director, Etc. - BT Group said, "At Etc., we support businesses like Altitude Angel, who have game changing ideas that benefit from BT Group's scale and our agile approach to growth. This partnership is a natural extension to BT Group's work building the leading network in the UK, supporting the UTM industry that sits adjacent to our core business."
BT Group will take a seat on Altitude Angel's board, which will be held by Dave Pankhurst, BT Group's Director of Drones, to drive the partnership forward and deliver against its goals.
Guy concludes: "This deal also brings with it a stake in Altitude Angel, arguably the UK's leading voice in the development of the drone and air-mobility airspace industry. Together we bring unparalleled drone solutions to market, underpinned by digital innovation and our network strength, as we open the skies to solve genuine consumer and business needs."
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BT Group is the UK's leading provider of fixed and mobile telecommunications and related secure digital products, solutions and services. We also provide managed telecommunications, security and network and IT infrastructure services to customers across 180 countries.
BT Group consists of three customer-facing units: Consumer serves individuals and families in the UK; BT Business* covers companies and public services in the UK and internationally; Openreach is an independently governed, wholly owned subsidiary wholesaling fixed access infrastructure services to its customers - over 650 communication providers across the UK.
British Telecommunications plc is a wholly owned subsidiary of BT Group plc and encompasses virtually all businesses and assets of the BT Group. BT Group plc is listed on the London Stock Exchange.
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*BT Business was formed on 1 January 2023 from the combination of the former Enterprise and Global units. It will commence reporting as a single unit from 1 April 2023, with pro forma reporting information to be produced ahead of BT Group's Q1 FY24 results.
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Altitude Angel is an award-winning provider of UTM (Unified Traffic Management) software, enabling those planning to operate, or develop UTM/U-Space solutions, to quickly integrate robust data and services with minimum effort.
Today, Altitude Angel's market-defining technology is providing a critical, enabling service on which the future of UTM will be built across the globe. Altitude Angel is leading a consortium of businesses to build and develop 165 miles (265km) of 'drone superhighways' connecting airspace above Reading, Oxford, Milton Keynes, Cambridge, Coventry, and Rugby over the next two years. The Skyway superhighway network, enabled using Altitude Angel's patented ARROW technology, will unlock the huge potential offered by unmanned aerial vehicles and be a catalyst to enable growth in the urban air mobility industry.
Altitude Angel's first party solutions also power some of the world's leading ANSPs, aviation authorities and Enterprises, including LVNL (Netherlands) and Avinor (Norway), empowering them with new capabilities to safely manage and integrate drone traffic into national operations.
By unlocking the potential of drones and helping national aviation authorities, ANSPs, developers and enterprise organisations, Altitude Angel is establishing new services to support the growth in the drone industry.
Altitude Angel was founded by Richard Parker in 2014 and is headquartered in Reading, UK.
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Boyce, who also starred in the Disney Channel sitcom "Jessie," played Carlos de Vil, teenage son of Cruella de Vil from "101 Dalmatians," in the "Descendants" films, which told the story of the offspring of classic Disney villains.
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In a statement Thursday announcing the show's end, ABC Entertainment President Karey Burke praised Davis for her unforgettable portrayal of a female antihero.
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(VEN) - Philips Lighting N.V officially renamed it Signify on May 16, 2018. The renaming is considered a further development step of the world's leading lighting company after it separated from the Philips Group in May 2016 to become an independent operator. Antonio Espada Cid, General Director of Signify in Vietnam, said with this change in its name, the company targets new heights in the future.
Signify is the new name of Philips Lighting, a world leader in integrated LED lighting, including entire systems, software and services. While the company has a new name, its product brand - Philips - remains unchanged, as Philips has become one of the most popular and trusted electronic brands in the world, which is associated with a lot of inventions and breakthroughs created by the group over the past century plus. Through a copyright agreement with the Royal Philips Group, Signify expects the renaming will be done in all concerned countries in early 2019.
General Director of Signify in Vietnam Antonio Espada Cid said that with a continuing innovation spirit, the company's renaming decision comes from a concept "light becomes a smart language that connects subjects and sends messages especially in the era of IoT (Internet of Things)". It is a clear expression of the company's vision and strategy as well as its commitment to bringing innovative lighting solutions to improve the quality of life. In addition, the new name is unique and easy to remember, he said.
With its renaming, Signify has reaffirmed its strong determination in exploring the extraordinary potential of light for a brighter life and a better world. The meaning of the new name is compliant with Philips Lighting's longstanding heritage values while meeting requirements of a modern, international company with a great purpose like Signify.
Talking about the company's after-renaming plan, Antonio Espada Cid said the company will continue to maintain its world leading position in connected LED lighting products, systems and services. Signify will continue to use IoT in the four main product categories for special use and residential lighting. In particular, Signify will focus on integrating the company's extensive expertise and experience in the field of lighting with cloud computing, data analysis and software applications.
Besides, Signify continues to support community projects by change to increase access to light and create brighter futures in off-grid communities. We've designed a range of solar lanterns and home lighting systems that enable off-grid communities to access safe, renewable lighting after dark. With this technology, social and business life no longer has to stop when the sun goes down. Light becomes a catalyst for recreation, productivity and economic growth. Recently, one of the community projects is completed at Cambodia. Kampong Thom is a poor village in Cambodia. People live without electricity. A small Signify team from Vietnam came to the village to give 534 households in seven villages solar lighting solution that impacted to 20,851 people who are living with very difficult condition. By these projects we received the lesson of sharing among human beings, we received the lesson how to make life meaningful. Many families who can't obtain or afford electric light instead burn coal, wood, kerosene or candles for illumination. These fuels can be costly and dangerous - 1.5 million people die annually from using kerosene lamps, which cause fires and respiratory illnesses.
The mission of the Foundation is to enable sustainable access to light to underserved communities. Our projects promote the use of clean technology based lighting systems that address the entire spectrum of lighting needs of a community. These could be home lighting, institutional lighting, public lighting and lighting for emergency relief. By mapping the access to light value chain and identifying barriers in key activities like manufacturing, distribution, affordability and sustainability, we inform our strategy and choice of partners & projects. Working with NGOs and communities around the world, we're bringing electric light to the places it is needed the most. And by sharing our expertise on the role of lighting in accelerating energy efficiency, we're helping to protect our environment.
In particular, products of the new generation continue to be improved in terms of light quality, safety, longevity, and usability and replacement possibility, among others.
General Director Antonio Espada Cid said sustainable development is a Signify's goal. Signify's targets are to realize the prominent lighting potential for brighter lives and a better world. By changing the way to create and use light, Signify can improve lives and make a positive impact on the planet, he said. Over the past 125 years plus, Signify has pioneered and created significant breakthroughs in sustainable lighting, becoming a driving force for many leading technology innovations including LED, the general director said.


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Facebook, YouTube Overrun With Bogus Cancer-Treatment Claims
Tech platforms are tweaking their algorithms and cutting off advertising for pages, videos promoting scientifically dubious information
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 Facebook Inc. and YouTube are being flooded with scientifically dubious and potentially harmful information about alternative cancer treatments, which sometimes gets viewed millions of times, a Wall Street Journal examination found.
Now, the companies say they are taking steps to curb such accounts. Facebook last month changed its News Feed algorithms to reduce promotion of posts promising miracle cures or flogging health services, a move that will reduce the number of times they pop up in user feeds, the company says. Some of the affected posts involve a supplement salesman who promotes baking-soda injections as part of cancer treatment.
"Misleading health content is particularly bad for our community," Facebook said in a blog post announcing the moves.
Alphabet Inc.'s YouTube has been cutting off advertising for bogus cancer-treatment channels, a spokesman said. It is working with medical doctors to identify content promoting unproven claims and medical conspiracy theories and has tweaked its algorithms to reduce the number of times these dubious videos are presented to users.
Facebook and YouTube detailed their recent actions on cancer-related content after the Journal presented them with its findings. Widespread misinformation sometimes appeared alongside ads, videos or pages for proven treatments, the Journal found.
Medical snake oil is an age-old problem, but the internet has dramatically extended the reach of bad actors peddling fixes for complex conditions that don't always have cures. The amount of misinformation is so extensive—and publishing on tech platforms so easy—that it can be hard to weed out. Patients come to appointments armed with information they have found online, some of it inaccurate, doctors say. Purveyors of misinformation inflate results from early laboratory studies for remedies that haven't been tested in humans, for instance.
A Robert O. Young post on Facebook.
"The granule of truth behind some of these can be very persuasive and can be manipulated by people who are trying to sell," said Fumiko Chino, a Duke Cancer Institute oncologist. Patients aren't relying on a single source; there are a multitude of sites and social-media accounts promoting misinformation, she and other doctors said.
The two tech giants' efforts are part of a broader move by Silicon Valley to police health-related content on platforms, and it is becoming as thorny an issue for the industry as its efforts to tackle hate speech, which has sparked complaints about censorship and political bias.
Facebook Pledged Crackdown on Vaccine Misinformation. Then Not Much Happened. (May 30)
Facebook Cracks Down on Vaccine Misinformation (March 7)
Pinterest Blocks Vaccination Searches in Move to Control the Conversation (Feb. 20)
YouTube, which has guidelines that don't allow videos that can result in immediate harm, considers medical misinformation especially concerning, a spokesman said. Videos conveying inaccurate medical information are among the 8.3 million videos the company says it has removed during the first three months of this year for violating its policies. The YouTube spokesman said that while the company's systems aren't perfect, YouTube's results for searches for cancer information have improved.
Earlier this year, Facebook said it would crack down on false criticism of vaccines spread by skeptics, an effort that the company has acknowledged has a long way to go. YouTube also changed its algorithms to play down results for antivaccination content. And Pinterest has stopped surfacing vaccination-related search results because most cautioned against vaccines.
As the U.S. battles the largest measles outbreak in decades, big tech companies such as Facebook, YouTube and WhatsApp are trying to tamp down the spread of misinformation about vaccines. WSJ's Spencer Macnaughton explains. Photo Composite: Adele Morgan/The Wall Street Journal
Public-health authorities blame such unwarranted skepticism for lower vaccination rates that have contributed to recent measles outbreaks.
A Journal investigation found misinformation about cancer treatment widely available on social-media sites. The Journal spoke to dozens of oncologists, patients, lawyers, privacy experts and company representatives, and quantified the reach of several social-media accounts that promoted scientifically unvalidated cancer therapies.
As of Monday, YouTube videos viewed millions of times were among the postings advocating the use of a cell-killing, or necrotizing, ointment called black salve to treat skin cancer. Use of the ointment can inadvertently burn or kill healthy skin, and doesn't remove cancerous growths beneath the skin, as is claimed in some videos, said David Gorski, a professor of surgery at Wayne State University School of Medicine in Detroit who edits the blog Science-Based Medicine. The wounds could also lead to infection.
According to Dr. Gorski, misinformation about cancer on the internet is as much of a public-health issue as antivaccine misinformation. "It's hard to argue which one is the worst," he said.
Often the videos and social-media postings are connected with online businesses seeking to generate sales of books, supplements and unproven products.
A Facebook page with more than 60,000 likes promotes baking-soda injections and juicing regimens to treat cancer sold by a supplement salesman named Robert O. Young. Mr. Young was convicted in a San Diego County court in 2016 for practicing medicine without a license.
Gina Darvas, the San Diego deputy district attorney who prosecuted him, said that Mr. Young used the internet—in particular YouTube and Facebook—to earn as much as $5 million a year before his conviction.
Mr. Young has multiple Facebook pages currently. He has a personal page and he and his affiliate run others dedicated to selling products and services, internationally and domestically. The pages contain posts with embedded videos and links to YouTube.
Weeks after getting out of jail in November 2017, Mr. Young was back on Facebook. His main page gets frequent updates with posts selling his discredited cancer and dietary theories, plus services and products. Videos on an account featuring Mr. Young have earned more than 900,000 views, according to an analysis by social-media intelligence firm Storyful, which is owned by News Corp., the Journal's parent company.
Mr. Young didn't respond to Facebook and email messages seeking comment, or a message left via one of his product distributors seeking comment for this article.
A study published in the journal JAMA Oncology last year found patients who chose alternative treatments over scientifically validated cancer therapies like surgery, chemotherapy or radiation had a higher risk of death.
Naima Houder Mohamed died of metastatic breast carcinoma in November 2012. Photo: Rachid Houder Mohammed
In July 2012, a cancer patient named Naima Houder Mohamed flew from the U.K. to Mr. Young's Southern California ranch after seeing his videos on YouTube. She had received a regimen of baking-soda injections and low-acid foods, according to her brother, a family friend and San Diego prosecutors. Ms. Houder Mohamed died of metastatic breast carcinoma in November 2012, according to prosecutors and her family.
The 12 weeks of treatments at Mr. Young's San Diego ranch cost about $70,000, according to her brother, Rachid Houder Mohamed. He said he was forced to sell his transportation business to get the family out of debt.
Mr. Houder Mohamed said that he was disappointed that Facebook and YouTube continue to host Mr. Young's content. "He robbed us of 12 weeks of the last segment of my sister's life," he said in an interview. "Facebook should be fined for allowing this to go as long as it has."
Facebook didn't immediately respond to email messages seeking comment on Mr. Houder Mohamed's criticism.
Purveyors of medical misinformation sometimes buy ads to promote their wares. The more popular ones on YouTube can serve ads with their videos and generate income. Ads for well-known brands, including pharmaceutical companies and auto makers, preceded videos for a channel named Chris Beat Cancer before the Journal asked about the channel and YouTube took away the advertising.
A screenshot from a video on the Chris Beat Cancer page on YouTube.
The channel, which has 125,000 subscribers, plays down the benefits of preventive screenings like mammograms, and promotes non-validated tests, including thermography. Thermography is a noninvasive imaging tool that shows heat and blood flow near the surface of the skin. It is often billed online as a safer, more effective alternative to mammograms, though the U.S. Food and Drug Administration warned in February that thermography alone wasn't an effective way to screen for breast cancer.
The account, managed by cancer survivor Chris Wark, also promotes alternative cancer treatments, like diet. In his videos, Mr. Wark says to viewers he isn't "anti-chemo," but that he supports patients having access to information that can help them make their own decisions.
Mr. Wark didn't respond to requests for comment about social-media posting policies.
Should social-media sites police health-related content on their platforms? Join the conversation below.
Write to Daniela Hernandez at daniela.hernandez@wsj.com and Robert McMillan at Robert.Mcmillan@wsj.com
Appeared in the July 3, 2019, print edition as 'Tech Giants Battle Spread of Spurious Cancer Treatments.'
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Today, I finally found the best place to announce my candidacy for the President of the United States. It happened at the annual fall conference of the West Virginia School Counselor Association. I know what you're thinking: There are hardly any better places than Charleston, West Virginia to spontaneously get a presidential campaign rolling.
My presidential ambitions probably won't get me into the next Democratic or Republican debates. In fact, after announcing my intentions and getting a few responsive chortles, none of the West Virginians EVER mentioned it the rest of the day. It was just like the fall of 1974, when, as a senior and captain of my high school football team, I tripped during the opening celebratory introductions and fell flat on my face. Being embarrassed, angry, and disoriented . . . I exited sideways through the tunnel of fans. It was a bad omen for our season; we lost all 10 games. The incident was so exquisitely humiliating that NO ONE, not my parents, not my friends, not my coaches, and not even my arch enemies, EVER spoke of it. Some things are best left in the past where they belong.
As a part of my presidential announcement, I shared my political platform.
The road to economic vitality . . .
The road to environmental sustainability . . .
The road to excellence in health care and social support programs . . .
And the road to good government . . . always has and always will run through education.
"Laws for the liberal education of youth, especially for the lower classes of people, are so extremely wise and useful that to a humane and generous mind, NO EXPENSE FOR THIS PURPOSE WOULD BE THOUGHT EXTRAVAGANT" (McCullough, 2001, p. 103; the ALL CAPS are added for emphasis).
Even though they seemed unmoved by my campaign-launching announcement, in the moment, the West Virginians were fabulously supportive. That might have been because I promised, if elected, that I'd get them all the raises they deserve. They responded with applause. Now I understand why being a politician is linked to lying. I liked it when they clapped. I was tempted to keep on lying to keep them clapping.
But they do deserve raises. And their students deserve more school counselors. We have too little funding for schools ACROSS THE BOARD. So, why hasn't that come up in any presidential debates? Why don't any American politicians currently view the value of education as self-evident? Do Americans REALLY THINK we can perpetually underfund education and maintain health, humanity, and a functional government? I hope not. We can't.
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Very similar issues here with Australian politicians, their lies and lack of educational funding (to name just one important area lacking, like mental health). Maybe it's a worldwide political trend?
The only other point I'd like to make regarding knowledge being power…is that sometimes just having the best available knowledge is not enough (think of all the smokers out there who KNOW what they're doing to their body). We also need education on how to use that knowledge.
I totally agree with your point about deficiencies in the application of knowledge.
It's nice to know I've got the Australian vote.
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Worked, Wrought and Overwrought
Judging by comments and emails I receive whenever I write about the verb wreak, some English speakers believe that the past tense of wreak is wrought.
That's not the case.
Wrought is an archaic past tense form of the verb work.
Work and wreak derive from different Old English verbs: wyrcan (do, make) and wrecan (to avenge). Both work and wreak belong to a class of irregular verbs that have acquired regular -ed endings in modern English. If wreak had remained irregular, its forms would probably look like these: "wreak, wroke, (have) wroken."
The verb work has a modern -ed ending, but the old past tense wrought survives in a few contexts and idioms.
Writing in the early 20th century, H. W. Fowler (Modern English Usage) commented on the fact that the past form of work was in a state of transition:
The decline of the form wrought is so manifest, yet so far from complete, that it is impossible to say from year to year where idiom still requires it and where it is already archaic.
In the 1965 edition, Gowers, changed "disappearance" to "decline," perhaps because the old form continued to be used in the sense of done, made, fashioned, or brought about:
The stage show is tight and well-wrought.—1997 book about Jazz.
The metaphorical movement of coming into that understanding is beautifully wrought with the use of a large black drapery that the congregation passes beneath as four of the dancers hold the corners.—2013 opera review
To see the changes Edward Snowden wrought, just look at your smartphone—2014 headline.
The reason that many speakers associate wrought with wreak may have to do with the fact that we have two idioms with the word havoc. A storm or other disaster "wreaks havoc," but people and institutions can "work havoc."
The "works havoc" idiom is not as common as it was, but it is still found in recent use:
Disability is damaging to one's self-esteem. It works havoc with one's relationships and can do irrevocable harm to an entire family's life.—1991 Congressional Record.
In actual fact, the volume of such movements is fairly modest, but their public echo is deafening and works havoc in politics and the labour movement. 2006, Library of Economics and Liberty.
It is as the past tense of work that wrought appears in an obituary of Margaret Thatcher:
Saying it would take years to cure Britain of the havoc wrought by socialism, Mrs. Thatcher warned, "Things will get worse before they get better."
The adjective overwrought, on the other hand, does not mean the same thing as the adjective overworked.
An "overworked employee" is one who does an excessive amount of work. Overworked can also be applied to nonhuman things to mean that they are being used to excess:
"Unique" is one of the most overworked words in advertising.
The phrase "people are our most important resource" has become a tired, overworked cliche.
Gently massage overworked muscles, prompting nutrient-rich blood to flow through, replenishing them.
The adjective overwrought can convey a sense of exhaustion from overwork, but overwrought describes the emotional agitation, impatience, and shortness of temper associated with exhaustion:
According to a government survey, US workers feel overwrought and unproductive.
The [employee] may be subject to verbal abuse by juveniles and will be required to remain calm in stressful situations involving agitated, irate or overwrought juveniles and family members.
When AU administrator James Mooney polled professors about grade complaints, he was appalled to learn that some overwrought parents call professors directly to complain.
Applied to nonhuman entities, overwrought means "excessively elaborate or exaggerated." Here are some examples of this use:
[The instructor's] supervisors at first supposed his overwrought language denoted a mental affliction.
Overwrought descriptions like these sap the power from the scene.
The film suffers from an overwrought narrative, with one melodramatic event after another.
After a thousand years, wrought continues to enrich the language. It is not, however, the past tense of wreak.
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5 Responses to "Worked, Wrought and Overwrought"
Charles Higginson on March 02, 2015 11:52 am
Odd, my 1965 copy of Fowler/Gowers, which I have in my hand, retains the original term "decline of the form wrought" and not "disappearance."
Maeve on March 02, 2015 12:19 pm
I've managed to mix up the editions. Fowler (1963 reprint) has "disappearance" and Gowers (1965) has "decline."
Jerry on March 02, 2015 3:26 pm
I suppose wrought iron fencing will not go out of fashion, evne though wrought is declining in usage. Is the suffix "wright", e.g., wheelwright related to wrought?
Maeve on March 03, 2015 11:17 am
A "wright" is a "worker," hence, wheelwright and playwright.
David Knuttunen on March 06, 2015 12:32 pm
I haven't researched this, but I assume that the "wrought" in "overwrought" also means "worked," but in a way that references the object produced by work rather than the worker; i.e., the same sense as "wrought iron". Thus, a person who is called "overwrought" could also be referred to as "all worked up," and and overwrought object has been overly elaborated by the fabricator.


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