If the medical field wants to make serious progress on the Cancer Moonshot effort, it must expand its definition of personalized medicine and explore fresh approaches to cancer prevention, according to Dr. Siddhartha Mukherjee, a Pulitzer Prize-winning author and cancer physician at Columbia University Medical Center.
Climate change poses a huge threat to the chemical industry, as many facilities are located in low‐lying coastal areas such as the U.S. Gulf Coast, and vulnerable to damage from hurricanes and flooding. These natural disasters are becoming more common with climate change.
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.
The Series B financing round was co-led by Merck Global Health Innovation Fund and Amgen Ventures. The company's Black female co-founders have prioritized overcoming systemic barriers to cancer prevention that have led to higher death rates for minorities.
We all know that certain behaviors like smoking, spending too much time in the sun, drinking excessively or an unhealthy diet can put us at risk for developing cancer. But according to some new research published in Science, unlucky, random cell mutation is the reason behind two thirds of cancer cases. Cristian Tomasetti and Bert […]
Better cancer prevention and treatments along with lowering smoking rates have resulted in 22 percent less deaths from the disease from 1991 – 2011, according to a study from the American Cancer Society. “Further reductions in cancer death rates can be accelerated by applying existing cancer control knowledge across all segments of the population, with […]
The British Medical Journal published a monumental study on screening mammography this week. It’s garnered a ton of media coverage because the findings provocatively question the sacrosanct idea that early detection of breast cancer saves lives. Imagine that…Imagine if the entire pink machine was misguided. Of course, for people who have been willing to squint […]
At the Abarca Forward conference earlier this year, George Van Antwerp, managing director at Deloitte, discussed how social determinants of health and a personalized member experience can improve medication adherence and health outcomes.