This week, the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force published a new draft guideline on breast cancer screening.1 The task force is considered the most rigorous and orthodox authority on the interpretation and application of the medical literature. The panel is widely respected for its expertise in epidemiology, screening, clinical trials interpretation, and structured reviews of... […]
In 1962, President John F. Kennedy stood in Houston and challenged the nation to undertake bold and drastic technological advancement to achieve the goal of reaching the moon. The speech he gave that day was considered the original moonshot address.
The recent Braidwood Management Inc. v. Becerra decision threatens access to lifesaving cancer screenings and other preventive screenings and services for millions of people in Texas and across the nation.
This week, Federal Judge Kacsmaryk of Northern District of Texas concluded that the FDA erred in 2000 when it granted Accelerated Approval to mifepristone as an agent to facilitate a medical abortion.
As is true in so many fields, medicine and biomedical research have experienced a huge transition over recent decades from self-sufficiency to productive interdependence.
Russia’s invasion a year ago has exacerbated the problems that afflicted Ukraine’s health care system, creating a new threat to the lives of patients struggling with cancer.
In 1991, Ukraine started to transform its healthcare system, and these changes continue to this day.
Shortly, I will step aside as director of the University of Iowa Holden Comprehensive Cancer Center, a role I have served in since 1998, i.e. a term roughly bookended by Y2K and COVID.
Cancer specialists like me, whether they are medical, surgical, or radiation oncologists spend our lives treating life threatening disease. We generally have a serious and professional demeanor reflective of the world that we choose to inhabit and the circumstances facing our patients that entrust us with their care.
One city is famous for its cheesesteaks. The other—a known hotspot for some of the country’s best barbecue.
