Earlier today, the ABC News anchor announced that she has breast cancer. Robin Roberts writes on the ABC News Web site: "I never thought I'd be writing this. ... I have breast cancer. It all started a few weeks ago. We had gotten the news that our dear colleague and friend Joel Siegel had passed away and we began... Read more
... and to double the NIH budget, as reported in Wired magazine's science blog. Republican Presidential candidate Tommy Thompson, whose wife, mother-in-law and daughter all faced breast cancer, pledged yesterday to allocate resources to cure breast cancer by 2015. His plan includes a doubling of the NIH budget to $56 billion along with... Read more
Bloomberg News reports that three pharmaceutical companies, including AstraZeneca, the maker of prostate (and breast cancer) drug Zoladex, must pay damages for inflating the price of certain drugs administered by doctors. "The plaintiffs argued that the drug makers had sold medications to doctors at steep discounts to the “average wholesale... Read more
Please read this article in today's Washington Post, "Breast Cancer Drug Study Canceled." It describes why a major planned study of aromatase inhibitors and breast cancer risk reduction was cancelled. Concerns designed to test a new generation of drugs to prevent breast cancer in women at risk for the disease.The National Cancer... Read more
Please read Gina Kolata's article on computer-aided detection in today's New York Times. It gives more context on how many hospitals have been using CAD (30%), how much computer-aided detection systems cost ($50K to $175K) -- and why so many hospitals jumped on the CAD bandwagon (favorable Medicare reimbursement). She wrote:"A highly... Read more
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