Thousands of U.S. patients may be undergoing unnecessary lung biopsies and surgeries annually due to overtreatment of benign lung nodules, according to a study published in the journal CHEST.
A $20.65 billion agriculture appropriations bill, which cleared a House subcommittee June 18, seeks to limit FDA's ability to review electronic cigarettes, cigars and other tobacco products already on the market.
Oregon Health & Science University met the challenge posed by Nike co-founder Phil Knight and his wife Penny by raising $500 million in less than two years, earning the Knights' matching gift and setting a $1 billion fundraising record. The announcement was made June 25.
The American Society of Clinical Oncology earlier this week published a proposed framework for assessing the value of new cancer treatments.
The House and Senate appropriations committees earlier this week passed parallel spending bills that would boost NIH budgets while eliminating the Agency for Healthcare Research Quality, a $465 million agency that plays a central role in the implementation of President Barack Obama's health care law.
The Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas has provided more than 2 million cancer prevention services to Texans across all 254 counties in the state, the institute announced June 16.
House and Senate sponsors have reintroduced the Cancer Treatment Parity Act, a bill that would require insurers to provide coverage for oral anticancer drugs on terms no less favorable than coverage for intravenous chemotherapy.
A $153 billion spending bill that cleared a House subcommittee June 17 seeks to abolish the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, the federal entity that funds patient-centered outcomes research and monitors the manner in which medicine is practiced in the U.S.
A health services researcher at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center has proposed a method for assessing whether cancer drugs are rationally priced.
MD Anderson Cancer Center has been censured by the American Association of University Professors, an organization that defends academic freedom and shared governance.
