NCI took another step toward adopting a new formula for determining the size of cancer center support grants, with the National Cancer Advisory Board accepting a report from a working group that has been working on the problem since the fall of 2012.
Question: What's more expensive than proton beam radiation therapy?
Current controversy over power morcellation points to the importance of multidisciplinary education and consultation, said Monica Bertagnolli, chief of the Division of Surgical Oncology at Brigham and Women's Hospital, and professor of surgery at Harvard Medical School.
The Cancer Letter asked David Challoner, emeritus vice president for health affairs at the University of Florida, to discuss the intricacies and effects of the FDA's 510(k) medical device approval process, and the parties that influence it.
On The Principles of SurgeryNoorchashm attributes his wife's complication in part to deficits in the gynecologists' surgical training.
On Oct. 17, 2013, a surgical instrument called a power morcellator tore into the uterus of Amy Reed, an anesthesiologist at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, pulverizing what were believed to be benign fibroids.
On the fifth anniversary of the landmark 2009 law granting the FDA authority over tobacco products, 10 leading public health and medical organizations called on the FDA and the Obama Administration to prioritize three actions to reduce tobacco use.
FDA approved a new use for Lymphoseek (technetium 99m tilmanocept) Injection, a radioactive diagnostic imaging agent, to determine the extent squamous cell carcinoma has spread in the body's head and neck region.
Grants and Intramural Program ReviewCouple of things about grants; everyone wants to know what's happening with grants.
Varmus's Joint BSA-NCAB Meeting Remarks - June 23, 2014.NCI has received some relief from sequestration, and the budget cuts will be adjusted proportionally, Director Harold Varmus said at the joint meeting of the National Cancer Advisory Board and the Board of Scientific Advisors June 23.
