The Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute approved $44.4 million in funding for 21 new patient-centered comparative clinical effectiveness research studies.
Over 150 organizations sent an open letter to the leaders of the Senate Health, Labor, Educations and Pensions Committee, supporting them for advancing legislation that will form the basis of the Senate's version of the 21st Century Cures Act, which passed the House last year.
“And I believe we need a moonshot in this country to cure cancer.”
The Genomic Data Commons, NCI's latest big data project, is poised to become a major player in oncology bioinformatics when it opens June 1.
NCI is preparing to open the Genomic Data Commons, a $20 million big data endeavor aimed at making raw genomic data publicly available.
April 26 marks the 30th anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear power facility accident in the former Soviet Union. Soon after the accident, I received a call from the Soviet ambassador to the U.S. on behalf of Mikhail Gorbachev asking me to come immediately to Moscow.
“There is more brain power in this room than exists in many countries,” said Vice President Joe Biden, addressing over 4,000 members of the American Association for Cancer Research, during a speech that turned personal at times, as he laid out several suggestions for accelerating progress.
FDA has conducted inspections of several hospitals—including Brigham & Women's Hospital—based on allegations that physicians and administrators did not report patient harm and deaths resulting from power morcellators.
In the fall of 2012, just before Al Gilman's departure, MD Anderson officials cracked down on internal critics.
The Cancer Letter invited Jedd Wolchok, associate attending physician and chief of the Melanoma and Immunotherapeutics Service at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, to describe the workings of the just-announced Parker Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy.
