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FDA last week issued a draft guidance that urges sponsors to conduct randomized controlled trials when they seek accelerated approval.
Soon after real estate developer and investor Jed Manocherian started a non-profit that lobbies for biomedical research, he heard about the outsized role Mary Lasker played in shaping government-funded biomedical research in the U.S.
Mary Lasker left a collection of detailed oral histories and a massive archive of documents, kept at Columbia University: 795 boxes and 7 flat boxes, which amount to 353 linear feet.
No Hispanic woman has ever served as director of an NCI-designated cancer center. This changed a month ago, on Feb. 6, when Yolanda Sanchez became director and CEO of The University of New Mexico Comprehensive Cancer Center.
Over the past year, dozens of Ukraine’s female oncologists, who—unlike draft-age men—aren’t restricted from leaving the country, have been receiving training in Western countries, including the United States.
