Medicare and insurance changes remove barriers for stool-based CRC screening

“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.

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Vol.51 No.05

By Jacquelyn Cobb and Katie Goldberg

Black History Month In the Archives

Marsha Henderson: “You have to continue to push for what you think is the right thing for public health.”
Preserving an oral history by the former FDA associate commissioner of women’s heath

When Marsha B. Henderson, former FDA Associate Commissioner of Women’s Health (1998-2019), sat down for an oral history interview upon her retirement from the agency, she could not have foreseen becoming party to a government digital purge 7 years later. Over the past week, the Trump administration has been busy at work deleting government webpages...

COA proposes health care reform blueprint

The Community Oncology Alliance released the COA Prescription for Health Care Reform, a blueprint that diagnoses the fundamental challenges facing the U.S. healthcare system, outlines the consequences for patients across America, and presents “actionable solutions .”

February 07, 2025

Vol.51 No.05

Capitol Hill

With a spotlight on vaccines, abortion, Medicaid and Medicare, RFK Jr. goes before the Senate
The MAHA nominee trumpets radical transparency, but offers little clarity on his new agenda

In two raucous back-to-back hearings on Jan. 29 and Jan. 30, anti-vaccine crusader Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was grilled by members of the United States Senate Finance Committee and the Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee as the Trump administration seeks his confirmation as secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services.

January 31, 2025

Vol.51 No.04

By Claire Marie Porter

NCI study: Prevention and screening saved more lives than treatment in five common cancer types over the past half-century

Over the last 45 years, prevention and screening interventions have made a greater contribution to averting cancer deaths than have improvements in treatment, according to a modeling study led by researchers at NCI.

January 31, 2025

Vol.51 No.04

By Yiqing Wang and Jacquelyn Cobb

Clinical Roundup

Dual-targeted therapies + chemo shows high response rates in BRAF-mutated metastatic CRC, phase III trial shows

Patients with metastatic colorectal cancer harboring BRAF V600E mutations benefitted from first-line treatment with the targeted therapies Braftovi(encorafenib) and Erbitux(cetuximab) plus a mFOLFOX6 chemotherapy regimen, according to results from the phase III BREAKWATER trial led by researchers at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center.

January 31, 2025

Vol.51 No.04

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“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”

Marsha Henderson: “You have to continue to push for what you think is the right thing for public health.”
Preserving an oral history by the former FDA associate commissioner of women’s heath

With a spotlight on vaccines, abortion, Medicaid and Medicare, RFK Jr. goes before the Senate
The MAHA nominee trumpets radical transparency, but offers little clarity on his new agenda