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Some of the latest innovation trends are coming from the nation of Israel, as I’ve blogged about before. A new therapeutic vaccine was recently developed in that tiny nation, and it promises to keep up to 90 percent of cancers from coming back. This kind of development is increasingly important as our population lives longer….
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