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The mRNA vaccine, which first showed its hand during the COVID pandemic, is now being pinned high hopes for solving cancer. The American drugmaker Moderna is ambitiously developing vaccines against a variety of cancers and other diseases, and claims results within five years. Moderna's chief…

Having fallen ill on April 3, I have still not fully recovered as of today. Originally, on April 4, I thought I was better; on April 5 I even rode my bicycle to the vegetable plot to do some farming, but when I came back…

Only by letting go of hatred can body and mind possibly heal. —Epigraph It is no exaggeration to say that I hear patients bursting into tears almost every day. Whenever someone wants to have a good cry in front of me, I silently watch and…

Johnson & Johnson's baby powder and other talc-containing products have been taken to court over possible carcinogenicity. On April 4, 2023, J&J announced plans to pay $8.9 billion over the next 25 years to compensate consumers, settling lawsuits over the possible carcinogenicity of its baby…

Originally I had planned to go home this Qingming Festival to sweep my mother's grave, but some things delayed me, and then I came down with another bad cold just before Qingming, so I could not go back. A few days before Qingming, an old…

The night before last I had diarrhea twice. At first I didn't pay much attention; I thought it was caused by the seafood I had eaten the day before. Yesterday morning, after breakfast, I began to feel chilled all over, with a sore throat. I…

Jinlingzi San is recorded in Taiping Shenghui Fang (Taiping Holy Prescriptions for Universal Relief). It is composed of equal parts (one liang each) of Chuanlianzi (Fructus Toosendan) and Yanhusuo (Rhizoma Corydalis). Because Chuanlianzi is also called Jinlingzi, the formula is named Jinlingzi San. When used,…

I listen to video lectures on Bilibili (bilibili.com), and before I know it I am completely absorbed. There are several teachers on Bilibili whose teaching style really suits me. One is Zhang Yi of "Yishu Mathematics" (he teaches high school math), another is Wang Pingping,…

The patient, Zhang, male, 45 years old, first consulted Professor Li Jiren on August 20, 1995. The patient stated that in January 1995, for acute abdominal pain, he had undergone exploratory laparotomy at a hospital in Nanjing, which showed a 2 cm x 1.5 cm…

When I was a child, my maternal aunt had a ganglion cyst on her wrist. The cyst was large and ached from time to time. She went to my village to be treated by my clansman, an older granduncle. My granduncle took out a long…