INDIANA UNIVERSITY MELVIN AND BREN SIMON CANCER CENTER is seeking high school and college applicants for its 2016 Summer Research Program.
Congress passed a $1.1 trillion government spending bill Friday morning, increasing the NIH budget by $2 billion. The measure now moves to the president's desk for approval.
THE KNIGHT CANCER INSTITUTE at Oregon Health & Science University and Cancer Research UK formed an international collaboration focused on the early detection of cancer.
Devices aren't tracked with the same rigor as drugs, because FDA does not have a data system that can reliably track medical devices and identify potential safety problems, according to Gregory Daniel, fellow and managing director of the Center for Health Policy at Brookings Institution.
THE ALBERT EINSTEIN CANCER CENTER and the Montefiore Einstein Center for Cancer Care received a Ruth L. Kirschstein NRSA Institutional Research Training Grant from NIH, which will provide $1.18 million in funding over five years.
Amgen entered into a definitive agreement with GSK to reacquire all of its remaining rights to Prolia (denosumab), XGEVA (denosumab) and Vectibix (panitumumab) in 48 countries in Asia, South America, Europe, Australia and other regions.
Stem Cell Theranostics and CapellaBio established a cardio-oncology collaboration to discover novel drug therapies to prevent cardiotoxicity associated with various oncology drugs.
Patients are being harmed because FDA doesn't commit sufficient resources to enforce federal requirements for hospitals and manufacturers to report adverse outcomes caused by medical devices, according to Larry Pilot, one of the original authors of FDA's 510(k) device clearance process.
RICHARD ADAMSON received the 2016 Founders Award from the Society of Toxicology.
JOSEPH SMITH JR. received the Huggins Medal from The Society of Urologic Oncology, the society's highest honor, for his lifetime contributions to treatment for patients with genitourinary neoplasms. Smith is a professor of Urologic Surgery at Vanderbilt University Medical Center.
