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.
LifeCare Alliance and the Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center—Arthur G. James Cancer Center and Richard J. Solove Research Institute announced a partnership aimed at enhancing access to breast cancer screening and diagnostics for underserved individuals across Ohio.
A new donor-funded project is offering free assistance to newly-diagnosed cancer patients across Los Angeles County to help them navigate the appointments, tests, options, and challenges that come with a life-altering diagnosis.
Underrepresentation of racial and ethnic minority populations in cancer clinical trials persists partly because translation and interpretation services and resources are unavailable or inadequate in the United States, according to a Children’s Oncology Group study led by Columbia University School of Nursing.
