My personal view is that “fundraiser walks” for any disease serve the unfortunate role of letting government off the hook when it fails...

Technology keeps evolving, and so now China may see use of zebrafish as tools for regulatory action. Specifically, after some genetic...

For toxic tort lawyers, a new interview of Gary Marchant provides notable insight into the major changes ahead for the future of toxic...

Near the home of Emily Beazley (photo courtesy of Daily Southtown/Chicago Tribune) A stem cell transplant has failed for 12 year old...

The ongoing annual AACR meeting this week included some sort of encouraging (but far from final) news on using immunotherapy to counter...

Molecular science continues to race forward in explaining the processes that generate the various processes we label as cancers. As an...

The ongoing annual AACR meeting this week included some fairly encouraging clinical trial news for treatment of pleural mesothelioma. One...

Wendy Harpham, MD, leads Wendy’s Eagles in a 2015 fundraising walk for lymphoma research. Wendy is alive and thriving 23+  years after...

The future of the United States (and the globe) includes massive numbers of cancers. Some of the numbers are set out below through the...

The message is plain. To my knowledge, this version of the billboard first appeared outside of O’Hare Airport in 2014 on I-294 south. In...

“More will die from cancer over the next two years than died in combat in all the wars the United States has ever fought, combined.” In...

More and more suits are aimed at big tobacco. Set out below is a press release on two new suits, with more suits said to be on the way....

As an alum and a former Champaign-Urbana”townie,” I am delighted to see the University  of Illinois at the front of this new intersection...

Researchers continue to seek out “fingerprint” patterns in tumor mutation patterns in order to look back towards causation and source of...

Interesting reading for people on all sides of toxic tort and precision medicine issues:  a thoughtful, non-hysterical essay from...

More on CMS paying for low dose CT scans for some people, as described yesterday. As part of its announcement, CMS explained that...

As part of its Decision Memo on paying for some low dose CT scans for lung cancer, CMS’ published the data charts below, which are taken...

More on CMS paying for some low dose CT scans. CMS received two requests to pay for some low dose CT scans.  Ultimately, CMA agreed to...

Finding cancers early is increasingly possible, and it’s being done more and more often. Persons involved in toxic tort litigation and...

In Ortwein, a San Francisco asbestos case, the trial judge entered a December 22, 2014 order granting a defense-side motion for testing...