The first record of chemotherapy to treat cancer came from Yale University in the 1940s. Researchers there realized that the "leukopenic" properties of mustard gas — that is, its ability to destroy ...

Sulfur mustard, a potent chemical warfare agent, has for decades raised significant public health concerns due to its acute toxicity and enduring deleterious effects. Exposure to this vesicant ...

Global healthcare company Grifols has partnered with BARDA, the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority, to develop the first immune therapy eye drops to prevent the long-term effects ...

In secret chemical weapons experiments conducted during World War II, the U.S. military exposed thousands of American troops to mustard gas. When those experiments were formally declassified in the ...

Chemotherapy drugs to treat cancer were invented from mustard gas. Rating: Mixture (About this rating?) What's True: The first record of chemotherapy to treat cancer came from Yale University in the ...