The House Committee on Energy and Commerce is spearheading legislation aimed streamlining development of drugs and medical devices.
FDA approved Gardasil 9 (Human Papillomavirus 9-valent Vaccine, Recombinant) for the prevention of certain diseases caused by nine types of Human Papillomavirus.
Lee Wattenberg, emeritus professor of laboratory medicine and pathology at the University of Minnesota Masonic Cancer Center, died Dec. 9 at the age of 92.
NCI Director Harold Varmus addressed a joint meeting of the NCI Board of Scientific Advisors and the National Cancer Advisory Board Dec. 2, updating them on his proposed bypass budget for the institute, changes in Congressional leadership, and NCI and NIH grant policy.
NCI's Douglas Lowy and John Schiller were honored by President Barack Obama with a National Medal of Technology and Innovation, the nation's highest honor for technological achievement, for their work in developing a vaccine for human papilloma virus.
Daniel Hayes was elected president of the American Society of Clinical Oncology.
Early Friday morning, President Barack Obama signed a two-day funding resolution averting a government shutdown and giving the Senate time to debate a $1.1 trillion funding package passed by the House of Representatives late Thursday night.
Faculty members at MD Anderson Cancer Center are arguably the most intensely watched cohort in academic medicine. Their angst has been measured four times by three administrative entities over two years.
A New York City radiation oncologist who specializes in fractionated stereotactic radiosurgery and stereotactic body radiation therapy agreed to pay $2.35 million to resolve a 10-year-old Medicare fraud lawsuit.
NCI has published the bypass budget for the fiscal year 2016, asking for $5.754 billion, an $823 million increase over the estimated budget of $4.931 billion.
