Leukemia was mostly a fatal disease when Hagop Kantarjian, a medical student at the American University of Lebanon in Beirut, first came to MD Anderson in 1978.
The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force’s latest draft recommendation on breast cancer screening is based in part on data on racial disparities in breast cancer mortality.
On April 17, Louis Weiner found himself wishing he could be in two places at once—dance at two weddings, as it were.
Ralph Lauren wasn’t interested in an eponymous cancer center when, in 2003, he helped establish the first Ralph Lauren Center in Harlem.
This point is easily overlooked: Monica Bertagnolli has two jobs, not one. She is the director of the National Cancer Institute and head of the National Cancer Program.
The United States has the worst health outcomes of any high-income nation—lagging behind on health status indicators including mortality, fertility, and morbidity—and recent rulings by Texas district judges against preventive services and mifepristone would widen that gap, experts say.
For Gary Schwartz, leaving New York was the only difficult part of taking the top job at Case Comprehensive Cancer Center.
In an era of judicial conservatism, a recent ruling that invalidates the Affordable Care Act’s preventive services mandate is likely to be upheld by higher courts, including the Supreme Court, legal experts say.
NYU’s Art Caplan: Texas ruling that nixes USPSTF authority embodies “bigotry, hatred, and ignorance”
A ruling by a Texas District Court judge that invalidates the Affordable Care Act’s preventive services mandate is based in part on claims that availability of pre-exposure prophylaxis pills would "encourage homosexual behavior and intravenous drug use.”
FDA last week issued a draft guidance that urges sponsors to conduct randomized controlled trials when they seek accelerated approval.
