Cancer Moonshot targets healthcare’s four-letter word: silo
Biden's aim to outwit cancer can demolish another scourge in healthcare: silos.
Biden's aim to outwit cancer can demolish another scourge in healthcare: silos.
Among the highlights of Wednesday's Cancer Moonshot Summit was news that IBM Watson Health will team with the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs to bring precision medicine to 10,000 veterans with cancer over the next two years.
Munck Wilson Mandala Partner Greg Howison shared his perspective on some of the legal ramifications around AI, IP, connected devices and the data they generate, in response to emailed questions.
An apparent highlight of the conference was U2 guitarist David "The Edge" Evans, who is active is several cancer charities, becoming the first rock star to play the Sistine Chapel.
Focused ultrasound, a rarely used treatment that involves zapping a body part with converging beams of sound, has gotten the attention of Joe Biden and the moonshot initiative.
We're heading into the 2016 elections, after all, where we've got candidates on both sides of the aisle reviling the drug pricing of the pharmaceutical industry. The Precision Medicine Initiative could help convince the public that the biopharmaceutical industry isn't completely stuffed with bad guys.
Some view this approach as already outmoded, is too optimistic to be realistic, and wrongly states cancer as a single disease - when it results from a multitude of factors and presents in countless ways.
The National Immunotherapy Coalition will work towards a new cancer initiative called "Cancer MoonShot 2020" that will take important steps in eradicating cancer.