ST. JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL dedicated and opened The Marlo Thomas Center for Global Education & Collaboration on the St. Jude campus in Memphis, Tenn., Nov. 20. The center will focus on childhood cancer.
D. GARY GILLILAND was named president and director of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, effective Jan. 2, 2015.
FDA has opened a public docket and is requesting comments on proposed criteria for “first generic” abbreviated new drug application submissions.
Connie Curran, 67, the first executive director of C-Change, died Nov. 10.
The American Society of Clinical Oncology has proposed a set of principles for shaping future debate of the role of Medicaid.
Projects support product development, prevention and research advancements across Texas
As an oncologist who treats sarcoma, George Demetri has seen the adverse consequences of power morcellation, the surgical technique widely used to perform laparoscopic hysterectomies and remove putative fibroids.
An interview with Amy Reed, formerly an anesthesiologist at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, and Hooman Noorchashm, formerly a cardiothoracic surgeon at Brigham & Women's Hospital.Debate Over Brigham's Containment Bag StudyFDA's other option is to mandate creation of a post-market surveillance study combining power morcellators with a containment system or bag, which would be used to prevent the dissemination of any tissue, benign or malignant.
Here is what we know: A surgical device used to perform about 100,000 hysterectomies and myomectomies every year in the U.S. has been shown to spread cells from undetected or missed uterine cancers—rapidly upstaging the disease.
MARK GILBERT was named chief of the Neuro-Oncology Branch at the NIH, within the Center for Cancer Research of NCI.
