
Biden, Soon-Shiong, Frist take cancer message to Vatican
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.
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.
Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong spoke today at the Future of Genomic Medicine's 9th annual conference in San Diego. The obvious focus of his presentation was the Cancer Moonshot 2020 initiative.
If you're not trying to decide who to vote for or playing a drinking game, the one liners on Twitter are the best part of the debate. Check out these 5 health-centric tweets.
Moderator Martha Raddatz waited until the second-to-last question, but she finally brought up a topic that many people have wanted on the debate agenda: abortion.
Thursday night’s vice presidential debate was everything we expected — Joe Biden was prepared and fired up (although maybe a little too much) and Paul Ryan was calm and rehearsed (although, again, maybe a little too much). Healthcare topics may not have captured much time during the debate, but the brief segment devoted to Medicare […]
Vice President Joe Biden and Rep. Paul Ryan both relied on discredited numbers during the portion of the debate that focused on Medicare.
The typically second-rate vice presidential debate has at least one big thing going for it this year: Healthcare reform will likely be a centerpiece. The presidential debate didn’t give us any new information about either party’s stance on healthcare issues, leaving it to the vice presidential candidates to fill in the detail. Reuters, in fact, […]
Vice President Joe Biden stood today where R.J. Reynolds Tobacco shop workers once labored and evoked the image of that past economy as a bridge to a new one. Biden visited Wake Forest Biotech Place, a $100 million research facility built from renovated R.J. Reynolds buildings. The site, which served as a tobacco warehouse and […]