A recent article in JAMA Network Open published by myself and my research collaborators—Jill Harrison at Brown University, Sarah Yarborough at Fred Hutch, and Tammy Stokes at Maury Regional Medical Center—examined the potential for a brief communication-based intervention to help older adults with cancer who live in rural settings better manage their pain.
Mayo Clinic received a $50 million investment from Stephen M. and Barbara J. Slaggie of Marco Island, FL, and Winona, MN.
Carolyn M. Tucker, Ph.D., received a 2024 President’s Lifetime Achievement Award from the office of U.S. President Joe Biden. Photo credit: Carolyn TuckerCarolyn M. Tucker has received a 2024 President’s Lifetime Achievement Award from the office of President Joe Biden, in recognition of her work to build healthier communities and providing hundreds with power over cancer.
Elizabeth Comen originally set out to write a book about the wellness industry, but ended up writing a different book altogether.
Bloomberg Philanthropies announced a gift of $5 million in seed funding to support the creation of the Xavier Ochsner College of Medicine, a newly-established medical school in New Orleans founded by Xavier University of Louisiana and Ochsner Health.
By the end of 2022, Toni Monteiro had no fight left in her. She had been battling a rare blood cancer for three years. Her husband had just died. She was at risk of being evicted from her Washington, DC, apartment. Also, her heart was failing. “You’re really under stress,” Monteiro recalls her physician saying. […]
Allison Dowling knew a career in medicine wasn’t for her. She’d seen firsthand the pain and stress experienced by patients who didn’t have the wherewithal to navigate systemic barriers in health care—problems that often fall outside the jurisdiction of the clinic.
In her final year as a medical student, Francisca Finkel chose an elective rotation that is offered by few med schools: Working with lawyers to resolve non-medical issues that harm patients with cancer.
VOICES of Black Women, the largest population study of Black women in the United States, will be the first of American Cancer Society’s large-scale population studies to be initiated using an AI-driven data management platform—promising to bring observational cancer research out of the age of Excel data files and email sharing.
The University of Hawai‘i Cancer Center announced that UH alumnus and philanthropist businessman Jay H. Shidler has donated $1 million to start the Director’s Innovation Fund to allow Director Naoto T. Ueno to advance his vision for the research at the center.
