Fred Hutch, UW, and Seattle Children’s consortium researchers receive $1.7M from Breast Cancer Research Foundation

Ousted CDC director testifies before Senate HELP Committee

Ousted from her position as director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention less than a month after her confirmation, Susan Monarez has now had the chance to tell her side of the story before Congress.

September 19, 2025

Vol.51 No.34

By Claire Marie Porter

Cancer Policy

CDC’s ACIP makes changes to childhood vaccine recommendations in first meeting since Monarez’s ouster

At a two-day meeting, the Center for Disease Control and Prevention’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices voted 8-3 to change the current recommendations that allow children under age 4 to receive the MMRV vaccine, a combination shot for measles, mumps, rubella and chickenpox (or varicella).

September 19, 2025

Vol.51 No.34

By Claire Marie Porter

Clinical Roundup

How AI will transform mental health support for breast cancer patients, narrative review paper details

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.

September 19, 2025

Vol.51 No.34

In Brief

VCU Massey, MD Anderson researchers awarded $7.3M grant to launch breast cancer clinical trial

Venkata Lokesh BattulaClinton YamA multidisciplinary team of researchers at VCU Massey Comprehensive Cancer Center and MD Anderson Cancer Center has been awarded a $7.3 million grant from the U.S. Department of Defense to fund a novel clinical trial targeting one of the most aggressive and hard-to-treat forms of breast cancer: metastatic triple-negative breast cancer.

September 12, 2025

Vol.51 No.33

Clinical Roundup

Checkpoint therapy breakthrough sparks new vaccine

Immune-checkpoint therapy, which attempts to harness a patient’s own immune system to fight cancer, has revolutionized cancer care over the past two decades.

September 12, 2025

Vol.51 No.33

Capitol Hill

With CDC in free fall, RFK Jr. faces bipartisan rebuke at Senate hearing
Kennedy calls CDC “the most corrupt agency at HHS and maybe the government.”

A Senate hearing that the administration hoped would be a routine check-in on the president’s 2026 MAHA-driven healthcare agenda erupted into a political firestorm as senators jumped at their first opportunity to confront HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. over the chaos engulfing the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

September 05, 2025

Vol.51 No.32

By Claire Marie Porter

Fred Hutch, UW, and Seattle Children’s consortium researchers receive $1.7M from Breast Cancer Research Foundation

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With CDC in free fall, RFK Jr. faces bipartisan rebuke at Senate hearing
Kennedy calls CDC “the most corrupt agency at HHS and maybe the government.”