Sometimes profoundly important public health opportunities are discovered by accident.
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Emeritus cancer center director, City of Hope Comprehensive Cancer Center, Former CEO, City of Hope; Former acting commissioner, FDA; Former associate director, NCI
By the end of 2022, Toni Monteiro had no fight left in her. She had been battling a rare blood cancer for three years. Her husband had just died. She was at risk of being evicted from her Washington, DC, apartment. Also, her heart was failing. “You’re really under stress,” Monteiro recalls her physician saying. ...
Allison Dowling knew a career in medicine wasn’t for her. She’d seen firsthand the pain and stress experienced by patients who didn’t have the wherewithal to navigate systemic barriers in health care—problems that often fall outside the jurisdiction of the clinic.
In her final year as a medical student, Francisca Finkel chose an elective rotation that is offered by few med schools: Working with lawyers to resolve non-medical issues that harm patients with cancer.
The Supreme Court last week upended one of the underpinnings of administrative law by weakening the authority of federal health agencies to rely on technical expertise as they regulate medical products, issue coverage decisions, and respond to public health crises.
The Supreme Court struck down the Chevron doctrine, removing one of the foundational principles of administrative law and upending the way federal agencies rely on technical subject-matter expertise. What comes next?
Unquestionably, a child’s cancer diagnosis weighs heavily on the parents’ minds. But now, an analysis of nearly 30,000 U.S. families has quantified how often parents of children with cancer use mental health services.
Emeritus cancer center director, City of Hope Comprehensive Cancer Center, Former CEO, City of Hope; Former acting commissioner, FDA; Former associate director, NCI
A modest proposal from a former FDA commissioner: Add antidepressants to the nation’s water supply
Warning: This is not a public health recommendation. Do not implement.
Sometimes profoundly important public health opportunities are discovered by accident.
Warning: This is not a public health recommendation. Do not implement.
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By the end of 2022, Toni Monteiro had no fight left in her. She had been battling a rare blood cancer for three years. Her husband had just died. She was at risk of being evicted from her Washington, DC, apartment. Also, her heart was failing. “You’re really under stress,” Monteiro recalls her physician saying. ...
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