Great. Now that lady is gonna get autism. Probably 100 million times worse than regular autism too.

Amazing news.

Or she's going to turn into the SuperAutist, hero of all autists.

Important context: this was the first trial, and it only worked on one of the two volunteers. Granted, a 50% survival rate is waaaay better than 0%, but this is not a definitive solution yet. The common view from the medical world on this research for the time being seems to be: "cautiously optimistic".

More info @ The Washington Post.

"MEASLES VACCINATION PROMOTES CANCER"

*quality news

Boosting this quality contribution up in the Hot Listing - declared quality by lucky760.

I would be happier about upvoting this comment if you had the sarcasm tag on, but either way it has to be done...

I initially wanted to provide a link to Ars Technica, since pop-science is a bit their thing, but they had no article up yet. This now fixed;
http://arstechnica.com/science/2014/05/measles-is-the-latest-virus-to-be-turned-into-a-weapon-against-cancer/