For those of you who read the blog here and are not aware of what a "Carnival" is, it represents a collection of some of the top blogging posts in a period of time assembled in one place to review and read. Today, Highlight Health is hosting the carnival and I am delighted that...
Additional information is available at the website along with a listing of the peer committee. Over $350 million has been raised by the foundation. In addition to the Young Investigators awards the Challenge Awards were also recently in the news and announced. Online donations and subscriptions...
This is one video found on You Tube, to show the real life discussions of healthcare in the US today. As I understand, there will be more to come, but it brings to light that we can no longer live in "denial" and believe the system is going to fix itself and in today's booming world...
Patrice Milos, Vice President and Chief Scientific Officer, Helicos Biosciences This week I had the opportunity to talk with Patrice Milos from Helicos Biosciences who has a long background in global research and spent a number of years at Pfizer as Executive Director at Pfizer Global Research and Development...
Money is the issue, so will the UK have the worst cancer survival figures in Europe? There still have to be some happy medium whereby drugs are affordable and researchers can still be rewarded. If the drugs never get to the the afflicted patients, what good is all the research and non availability...
This was sent to via a reader, and the video offers a new way of looking at cancer, as a fungus. Being I am a blogger and not a medical professional, I can't offer any opinions one way or another, but would certainly welcome any comments from those in a position who can and this would in turn...
" However, the NCI director did not hold out much hope in the upcoming presidential elections, saying the slate of available candidates was "a disappointment." ....and yes I can agree with this statement...nothing personal against any candidate or their staff....but as long as we continue...
CBS is doing a special report this week on drugs for cancer. This video has an interview with the Head of Oncology from the FDA and what their process is to approve drugs for cancer....and an interview with one of the Biotech companies who make the drugs explains that the US requires a whole new clinical...
For a list of trial you can go here, to the ClinicalTrials.gov site.... you can also search the site for any other trials listed with the National Institute of Health....BD Three weeks ago, 38-year-old Allan Shallenberger from Los Angeles received the same grim diagnosis as Sen. Ted Kennedy: he had the...