ODAC votes Yes on advanced multiple myeloma agent with ocular toxicity

Gardiner Harris, acclaimed health care and pharma journalist, on his New York Times bestselling book

In his new book, “No More Tears: The Dark Secrets of Johnson & Johnson,” Gardiner Harris, who was previously the public health and pharmaceutical business reporter for The New York Times, talks about the history of the overuse of red blood cell growth factors in oncology.

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Knight Cancer Institute receives record-setting $2B gift from the Knights—and self-governance within OHSU
Brian Druker returns to executive role as president of the new Knight Cancer Group

Phil and Penny Knight made a record-setting $2 billion gift to OHSU Knight Cancer Institute.

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In The Headlines: Late poet Andrea Werblin Reid’s husband talks about publishing her final collection about dying from ovarian cancer

In the last three years of her life, Andrea Werblin Reid wrote 150 poems on living with ovarian cancer and end of life. Werblin Reid died of ovarian cancer in 2022. Her third collection of poetry, “To See Yourself As You Vanish,” will be published Sept. 9.

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Vol.51 No.31

Podcast The Directors

The Directors: Mary Beckerle and Neli Ulrich on delivering cancer care across five states
Honoring the Jon Huntsman Sr. political perspective: “I’m not a member of any party except the Cancer Party”

Mary Beckerle, a whitewater kayaker, has advice for all the folks in the cancer field: never catastrophize, never panic.

Andrea Werblin Reid’s unflinching poetry documents the realities of cancer care, clinical trials, and loss
Her collection, “To See Yourself As You Vanish,” will be published three years after her death

I always liked poetry, but I was never a poet. I had to marry into that.

Lou Weiner: Poetry and art help us imagine my mother’s world as a hidden child of the Holocaust

I write a weekly blog for Georgetown University’s Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center community. Here I share an updated version of a blog post I wrote in September 2024, now supplemented by some poems I have written over the years that inspired paintings by my wife Harriet Weiner, who is a much better artist than I am a poet or writer.

August 08, 2025

Vol.51 No.31

By Louis M. Weiner

ODAC votes Yes on advanced multiple myeloma agent with ocular toxicity

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Knight Cancer Institute receives record-setting $2B gift from the Knights—and self-governance within OHSUBrian Druker returns to executive role as president of the new Knight Cancer Group

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Knight Cancer Institute receives record-setting $2B gift from the Knights—and self-governance within OHSU
Brian Druker returns to executive role as president of the new Knight Cancer Group

The Directors: Mary Beckerle and Neli Ulrich on delivering cancer care across five states
Honoring the Jon Huntsman Sr. political perspective: “I’m not a member of any party except the Cancer Party”

Andrea Werblin Reid’s unflinching poetry documents the realities of cancer care, clinical trials, and loss
Her collection, “To See Yourself As You Vanish,” will be published three years after her death