UT Southwestern study identifies clustering of specific gut bacteria associated with race, ethnicity in patients

Bhattacharya provides calm answers to anxious questions at confirmation hearing
Trump nominee for NIH director calls for transparency, audits of indirect costs

Amid the flood zone of today’s Washington, the confirmation hearing for Jayanta (Jay) Bhattacharya’s nomination as director of NIH was remarkably calm.

March 07, 2025

Vol.51 No.09

By Jacquelyn Cobb

Black History Month Conversation with The Cancer Letter

Shearwood McClelland III: “When you stand for something, you’re always going to be attacked.”

Shearwood McClelland III’s grandfather was a ditchdigger who dreamed that his six Black daughters would become doctors. McClelland’s mother did not disappoint—she became the first Black woman board-certified in maternal fetal medicine in the history of the United States. Now, McClelland is the chief medical officer of Cancer Health Equity at the University of Oklahoma...

Combination therapy overcomes drug resistance in KRAS-G12C mutant cancers, study finds

Multidrug resistance in cancer can be overcome by combining a drug that blocks a key enzyme with another anticancer drug, according to a study in preclinical models led by researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center.

February 28, 2025

Vol.51 No.08

Black History Month Conversation with The Cancer Letter

Brian Rivers: Celebrating Black history reinforces the dynamic culture of America
“It gives America, in part, its identity.”

Nearly 30 years ago, while completing an assignment for his master’s degree in public health, Brian Rivers discovered he had a family history of prostate cancer.

Investigational therapy shrinks drug-resistant NSCLC by activating NK cells, study finds

An investigational therapy significantly shrank lung cancer tumors that are notoriously resistant to treatment by encouraging an attack from natural killer cells in an animal model, a study led by UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers shows. The findings, published in the Journal for ImmunoTherapy of Cancer, could lead to new types of immunotherapy that rely on this novel strategy.

February 21, 2025

Vol.51 No.07

White House

“Page Not Found:” HHS agencies purge web pages that hint at DEI, health equity, and gender
Medical group sues over removing “information used every day by health professions”

The web page for the FDA Office of Minority Health and Health Equity is no more. The pages for the NCI Diversity Training and Biomedical Workforce Development Branch and Disparities Research Branch are kaput as well.

February 07, 2025

Vol.51 No.05

By Jacquelyn Cobb and Katie Goldberg

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Bhattacharya provides calm answers to anxious questions at confirmation hearing
Trump nominee for NIH director calls for transparency, audits of indirect costs

Brian Rivers: Celebrating Black history reinforces the dynamic culture of America
“It gives America, in part, its identity.”

“Page Not Found:” HHS agencies purge web pages that hint at DEI, health equity, and gender
Medical group sues over removing “information used every day by health professions”