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Emeritus cancer center director, City of Hope Comprehensive Cancer Center, Former CEO, City of Hope; Former acting commissioner, FDA; Former associate director, NCI
The Cancer Letter has published a number of excellent pieces lately on the importance of supporting and encouraging trainees and junior investigators during these uncertain times.
Researchers from UVA Cancer Center, the University of Virginia School of Medicine, and Inova Peterson Life with Cancer detail the many ways artificial intelligence could help ensure patients receive the support they need.
In this episode of In the Headlines, Paul Goldberg, publisher of The Cancer Letter, and Jacquelyn Cobb, associate editor, talk about controversial data cited in Trump’s “Make American Healthy Again” executive order that claims that the U.S. has the highest age-standardized incidence rate of cancer globally. But where did that data come from?
In this episode of In the Headlines, former NCI Director Kimryn Rathmell speaks with Paul Goldberg, publisher of The Cancer Letter, and Jacquelyn Cobb, associate editor, about the HHS layoffs and their potential impact on mental health. These layoffs—and the broader uncertainty introduced by the current administration’s actions—are a form of trauma, Rathmell says.
Being summarily dismissed, denigrated, and divided is both dehumanizing and taking place in a radical and disorienting manner. The effect is traumatizing.
One or two doses of psilocybin, a compound found in psychedelic mushrooms, may improve the mental health of cancer patients when accompanied by psychotherapy, a new report suggests. A second new study found that treatment with psilocybin resulted in lasting, positive personality changes in patients with alcohol use disorder.
Emeritus cancer center director, City of Hope Comprehensive Cancer Center, Former CEO, City of Hope; Former acting commissioner, FDA; Former associate director, NCI
A modest proposal from a former FDA commissioner: Add antidepressants to the nation’s water supply
Warning: This is not a public health recommendation. Do not implement.
Sometimes profoundly important public health opportunities are discovered by accident.
Warning: This is not a public health recommendation. Do not implement.
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