A multi-institutional team of scientists has received a grant from the Aligning Science Across Parkinson's (ASAP) initiative to use stem cells to study how risk factors accumulate and interact to drive Parkinson's disease (PD).
NIH Director Francis S. Collins said he expects at least one of the vaccines against COVID-19 to be proven safe and effective by the end of 2020.
The American Association of Cancer Research Sept. 16 published a comprehensive report on disparities in cancer, describing in deep detail the outsized toll that cancer exacts on racial and ethnic minorities and other underserved populations.
On Jan. 6, Barry P. Sleckman’s started his job as director of the O’Neal Comprehensive Cancer Center at the University of Alabama at Birmingham.
As of September, more than 270,000 deaths have been confirmed in Latin American countries due to the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection.
The unprecedented COVID-19 pandemic makes it possible to compare and contrast the public health and political responses to previous health crises.
This January, the American Cancer Society reported the sharpest drop in U.S. cancer mortality ever recorded. Between 2016 and 2017, the death rate from cancer fell 2.2%, continuing the trajectory of a 29% decline in cancer mortality since 1991.
I write this letter to you as an advocate for women with malignant uterine soft tissue tumors—and to commend you on the introduction of The Uterine Fibroids Research and Education Act in the United States Congress.
As the only National Cancer Institute-designated Comprehensive Cancer Center in the Mountain West—a region that includes Utah, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, and Wyoming, covering 17% of the landmass of the continental United States—Huntsman Cancer Institute (HCI) at the University of Utah (U of U) has a longstanding focus on improving cancer research, prevention, and treatment strategies for our patients and communities.
The National Cancer Institute approved the following clinical research studies last month.
