The Department of Defense appropriations measure for the fiscal year 2015, approved by the Senate Appropriations Committee July 17, decreased overall funding for peer-reviewed cancer research programs by 4.5 percent.
Sen. Tom Harkin introduced a bill that would set NIH on a path to recoup the purchasing power it has lost since 2003, and make funding biomedical research a national priority.
More women would die from open surgery each year if the FDA decides to ban power morcellation, said Jubilee Brown, an associate professor at MD Anderson Cancer Center and a spokesperson of the American Association of Gynecologic Laparoscopists.
There was no formal consensus on either an outright ban on power morcellators or issuance of a “black box” warning label.
REP. HENRY WAXMAN received the Lifetime Achievement Award from The 340B Coalition.
MD Anderson Cancer Center's uninterrupted seven-year stretch as the top cancer hospital in the U.S. News & World Report rankings has come to an end.
LI MA and JEFFREY TYNER were named the recipients of the American Association for the Advancement of Science's Martin and Rose Wachtel Cancer Research Award.
ROSWELL PARK CANCER INSTITUTE received an “outstanding” distinction from NCI, which renewed its Cancer Center Support Grant and extended its Comprehensive Cancer Center designation, following an in-depth peer review. Roswell Park will receive $19 million with the core grant covering a five-year period.
Question: What's more expensive than proton beam radiation therapy?
THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR RADIATION ONCOLOGY has named 30 society members to receive the Fellow of ASTRO designation. The 2014 class will receive the recognition during an awards ceremony Sept. 16 at the society's annual meeting in San Francisco.
