Last week, a blistering opinion piece on The New York Times editorial page focused on the coziness of the relationship between the American Cancer Society and Walgreens. The piece initially triggered criticism by ACS officials, but then—with no fanfare whatsoever—the society’s CEO called on the drug store chain, as well as others, to stop selling tobacco […]
CCOP Letter to VarmusThe letter to Varmus was signed by 56 of the 64 CCOP PIs.
The Gap OpensMany doctors who participate in CCOPs commit money from their practices to this endeavor. Institutions, too, end up having to throw in subsidies.
THE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR CANCER RESEARCH is now accepting applications for the Stand Up To Cancer-Cancer Research U.K. Translational Research Fellowship, which will provide up to four grants for postdoctoral or clinical research fellows, each up to $315,000, over a four-year period.
MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER formed a research alliance with GlaxoSmithKline to strengthen its efforts in advancing anticancer immunotherapies.
BECKY DEKAY was named president of the Association of Community Cancer Centers at its annual meeting April 2. She is director of oncology services at the Feist-Weiller Cancer Center at LSU Health Shreveport.
The American Association for Cancer Research presented its 2014 awards at its annual meeting, held April 5-9 in San Diego.
President Barack Obama signed a bill authorizing $126 million for pediatric medical research over the next 10 years, following a rare showing of bipartisanship on Capitol Hill.
For a good time, go to the Medicare database and key in the name of your physician friend, foe, or whatever, and presto!—you will see how much that person had billed Medicare in 2012.
