Monica Bertagnolli, former director of NIH, has been elected by members of the National Academy of Medicine as the Academy’s next president. To access this subscriber-only content please log in or subscribe.If your institution has a site license, log in with IP-login or register for a sponsored account.**Not all site licenses are enrolled in sponsored […]

NIH will no longer fund scientific research that uses human fetal tissue from elective abortions, a practice that has contributed to the study of cancer, the development of vaccines, and the treatment of other diseases. To access this subscriber-only content please log in or subscribe.If your institution has a site license, log in with IP-login […]

The U.S. House of Representatives Jan. 22 passed a three-bill minibus package that is expected to be the grand finale of the drama of the fiscal year 2026 appropriations process. The package, which funds the HHS as well as the departments of Defense, Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, Labor, and Education, gives NIH and NCI […]

A story is told that after first obtaining approval for marketing Premarin in 1942, Wyeth Laboratories didn’t lock up the secret recipe for making the hormonal drug in a company safe, to be guarded by patent lawyers. To access this subscriber-only content please log in or subscribe.If your institution has a site license, log in […]

Researchers at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center have determined that mutations in the KDM6A gene—common in advanced bladder cancer—may serve as a predictive biomarker to determine which patients are less likely to benefit from standard chemotherapy but may respond better to immunotherapy. To access this subscriber-only content please log in or subscribe.If […]

The American Cancer Society’s 2026 annual statistics report trumpets a symbolic milestone for oncology—for the first time, the five-year relative survival rate for all cancers combined has reached 70% for people diagnosed between 2015 and 2021 in the U.S. To access this subscriber-only content please log in or subscribe.If your institution has a site license, […]

New Medicaid work requirements included in President Donald Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” could result in as many as 1.6 million missed screenings for breast, colon, and lung cancers within the first two years, researchers at the University of Chicago reported in a paper published in JAMA Oncology earlier this month. To access this […]

Alex Bates was appointed director of executive communications for the Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center–Arthur G. James Cancer Hospital and Richard J. Solove Research Institute. To access this subscriber-only content please log in or subscribe.If your institution has a site license, log in with IP-login or register for a sponsored account.**Not all site licenses […]

As a radiation oncologist, I am struck by how often the decisive variable in lung cancer is not the sophistication of our therapy, but the timing of our encounter with the disease. The American Cancer Society projects 618,120 cancer deaths in the United States in 2025, with lung cancer remaining as the single largest contributor,... […]

Positive results were announced from its two pivotal phase III trials, B-Well 1 and B-Well 2, evaluating bepirovirsen, an investigational antisense oligonucleotide for the treatment of chronic hepatitis B in over 1,800 patients from 29 countries. To access this subscriber-only content please log in or subscribe.If your institution has a site license, log in with […]

A federal court has ordered the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to restore nearly $12 million in funding that was cut from American Academy of Pediatrics funding last month. To access this subscriber-only content please log in or subscribe.If your institution has a site license, log in with IP-login or register for a […]

By law, the Food and Drug Administration is required to determine whether a drug, device, biologic, or medical device is “safe and effective.” But the FDA determination does not control whether the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services will pay for it. To satisfy CMS, medical products and services must be “reasonable and necessary,” meaning […]

The American Cancer Society’s 2026 annual statistics report trumpets a symbolic milestone for oncology—for the first time, the five-year relative survival rate for all cancers combined has reached 70% for people diagnosed between 2015 and 2021 in the U.S. To access this subscriber-only content please log in or subscribe.If your institution has a site license, […]

The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute has fully implemented the Advarra OnCore Clinical Trials Management System, an investment that strengthens oversight, efficiency, and growth of cancer clinical trials. To access this subscriber-only content please log in or subscribe.If your institution has a site license, log in with IP-login or […]

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Longer follow-up results from the investigational phase Ib/II OrigAMI-1 study evaluating amivantamab-vmjw, a bispecific antibody targeting epidermal growth factor receptor and MET, in combination with FOLFOX or FOLFIRI chemotherapy in patients with RAS/BRAF wild-type metastatic colorectal cancer were presented during a poster session at the 2026 American Society of Clinical Oncology Gastrointestinal Cancers Symposium. To […]

As a radiation oncologist, I am struck by how often the decisive variable in lung cancer is not the sophistication of our therapy, but the timing of our encounter with the disease. The American Cancer Society projects 618,120 cancer deaths in the United States in 2025, with lung cancer remaining as the single largest contributor,... […]

Verana Health and COTA Inc. are merging with the aim of providing data and software solutions for real-world insights that accelerate clinical research, expedite treatment options, and improve patient care. To access this subscriber-only content please log in or subscribe.If your institution has a site license, log in with IP-login or register for a sponsored […]

OpenAI has launched a ChatGPT health feature in the U.S. that is currently available only to a small group of users for refinement. To access this subscriber-only content please log in or subscribe.If your institution has a site license, log in with IP-login or register for a sponsored account.**Not all site licenses are enrolled in […]

New Medicaid work requirements included in President Donald Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” could result in as many as 1.6 million missed screenings for breast, colon, and lung cancers within the first two years, researchers at the University of Chicago reported in a paper published in JAMA Oncology earlier this month. To access this […]

By law, the Food and Drug Administration is required to determine whether a drug, device, biologic, or medical device is “safe and effective.” But the FDA determination does not control whether the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services will pay for it. To satisfy CMS, medical products and services must be “reasonable and necessary,” meaning […]

Cellares and City of Hope announced a collaboration to evaluate automated manufacturing of City of Hope’s investigational gene-modified CAR T-cell therapy targeting glioblastoma multiforme, an aggressive solid tumor brain cancer with limited treatment options. To access this subscriber-only content please log in or subscribe.If your institution has a site license, log in with IP-login or […]

Johnson & Johnson announced positive topline results from the investigational phase III MajesTEC-9 study of Tecvayli (teclistamab-cqyv) monotherapy, showing a 71% reduction in the risk of disease progression or death and a 40% reduction in the risk of death in a patient population that was predominantly refractory to anti-CD38 therapy and lenalidomide. To access this […]