Personalized medicine is the new Holy Grail of cancer therapy.  The drugs we currently use are stupid.  They don't actually target ca...

 Today was the day. I recently wrote about chemotherapy shortages .  They've been in the news more and more over the past 12 mon...

Avastin has been in the news a lot lately, and most of the press has been negative.  In November, the FDA revoked its approval of Avastin t...

Photo Credit The issue of chemotherapy drug shortages has made the news a lot over the past 6 months or so, including an OpEd piece in ...

The vast majority of biomedical research conducted in the United States is funded by taxpayers through grants distributed by the National In...

A study , published online January 6 in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute , claims to show that screening men 55 years old or ol...

As the new year begins and election season accelerates, we will be hearing phrases like that more and more.  In the context of a political c...

The times they are a-changin’ !  When I began my career as a scientist, NIH funded 25% of the applications they received.   That number is n...

This post is dedicated to a close friend of mine, a budding scientist with an aversion to yoga. The benefits of yoga for cancer patients ...

Of course, Captain Barbossa was referring to The Pirate Code , but he could just as easily have been referring to documents released last ...

The headline in the Washington Post caught my eye: “ Fighting a smarter war on cancer ,” [sorry, you must register to read the article] a...

In a press release issued earlier this week, former NBA star and actor Kareem Abdul-Jabbar announced that he has been diagnosed with leukem...

As breast cancer awareness month draws to a close, I wanted to highlight a few breast cancer posts from other medical bloggers: Suture For ...

All of us who work in a lab and see patients say the same thing: “I do this because I hope one day to be able to discover something in the l...

I am often asked my opinions about herbal remedies. Patients seem more attuned than ever to alternative therapies, but many still want a phy...

Gina Kolata wrote a fascinating piece this week on the subject of The War on Cancer , first declared by President Richard Nixon back in 19...

This question actually comes up a lot in my practice. When a family is first coming to terms with a cancer diagnosis, so many questions pass...

Last week I attended the annual meeting of the Children’s Oncology Group . Like last year , the meeting was held in Denver, Colorado. The C...