AppliedVR teamed up with the National Cancer Institute to study the feasibility of VR to alleviate anxiety in brain tumor patients undergoing imaging scans. The research partners recently announced interim analysis results from their clinical study — they said that not only would VR intervention be a feasible option to reduce patients’ anxiety, but that patients would report high satisfaction levels as well.
Targeted drugs and immunotherapies are among the advances that contribute to declines in incidence and deaths from non-small cell lung cancer, according to the Annual Report to the Nation on the Status of Cancer. But the trends are on the rise for some other cancers and racial disparities persist, highlighting the need to better understand these differences.
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.
Recent efforts to improve transparency haven't made much of a difference, one author noted. But earlier reforms made a dent the "most egregious" practices.
Sharpless, the director of the National Cancer Institute, was reportedly favored by HHS Secretary Alex Azar as outgoing Commissioner Scott Gottlieb's successor.
Via a grant from the National Cancer Institute, University of Utah Health, Intermountain Healthcare and the Huntsman Cancer Institute are developing an advanced cancer screening tool.
Here's how the life science research organizations are taking the news that Trump's budget proposal will chop off $5.8 billion in funding the federal government provides to the National Institutes of Health.
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.
Google shared a few more details on its efforts to bring more accurate, reliable medical information online, detailing some of its main sources and partners. In addition to the Mayo Clinic, other key partners on the effort include Lumiata and VoxHealth. To what extent those two companies are involved is not entirely known, other than […]
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 […]
Ever forget the difference between an IND, a Phase I and Phase II trial? The difference between protein expression and gene expression profiling? The National Cancer Institute has a nifty tutorial that breaks down the development process of new, targeted therapies in cancer. It’s a good resource for anyone – be it you, a friend, a colleague, a […]
The National Institutes of Health has quite a bit of patented work sitting on the shelf and not enough biotech companies willing or able to take on the risk of trying to commercialize them. Universities, meanwhile, have lots of motivated and engaged students and faculty eager to get some experience with real-world research projects and […]
We will highlight Build My Health's revenue practice management tools, which could help physician practices add up to $250,000 to their practices.
The Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania has received $7.5 million from the National Cancer Institute to establish a breast cancer screening center. The Penn Center for Innovation in Personalized Breast Cancer Screening will look at emerging methods of breast cancer detection. The team, led by Dr. Katrina Armstrong, chief of the […]
A research group at the Perelman School of Medicine of the University of Pennsylvania will share a nearly $8 million grant from the National Cancer Institute with the Mayo Clinic and Columbia University to establish a translational research network to investigate the causes of Barrett’s esophagus, a condition that can be a precursor to esophageal […]