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Project W: The Price of Survival Should Not Be Pain and Suffering

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Project W alumna Carole Spangler Vaughn has spent her entire career in the life sciences industry working on solutions to prevent and treat diseases. When Carole was diagnosed with breast cancer and underwent chemotherapy,...more

Womble Bond Dickinson

Finding a New Way to Fight a Deceptive Disease

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Cancer is a horribly painful and debilitating illness, but would you ever call it “diabolical”? What about “conniving”? You might after you hear about the latest research out of Vanderbilt University showing that cancer cells...more

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Innovative radiotherapy successfully treats cancer without radiation–induced side effects

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More than half of all cancer patients are treated with radiation therapy and may incur acute and chronic toxicities to normal tissue, leading to debilitating side effects. Researchers at the University of California-Irvine...more

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Cancer Vaccines: The Fourth Pillar of Anti-Cancer Therapy?

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Innovative technologies are being deployed to address the Western world’s major killer: cancer. Traditionally, cancer treatment has included surgery, chemotherapy, and radiation, but recently, the development of targeted...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

Day 2 Notes at the 2020 J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference

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The Big Cost; Cancer is the Answer; and SDOH Evolves - The Big Cost: You’re okay today, and then tomorrow you’re not. Life has changed and there’s a new reality. Whether it’s an acute event – an accident, a heart attack, a...more

Snell & Wilmer

FDA Makes Gene Therapy Available for First Time in USA

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Earlier this week, the FDA made gene therapy available for the first time in the United States. This decision, ushers in “a new approach to the treatment of cancer and other serious and life-threatening diseases” said the...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

The 21st Century Cures Act: FDA Reforms Aim to Spur Innovation in the Pharmaceutical, Medical Device and Health Research Sectors

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On December 13, 2016, President Obama signed into law the 21st Century Cures Act (Act), one of the most important pieces of health care and life sciences legislation in several decades. The Act is intended to spur the rapid...more

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National Geographic Considers Technology and Its Threat to Humanity

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Progress, and faith in progress to improve human lives, has been a cornerstone belief in American civilization (and, indeed, Western civilization generally, at least since St Augustine argued that Christ's death put an arrow...more

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Precision Medicine - Even Medicare Will Pay for It!

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President Barack Obama announced in his 2015 State of the Union address that he was introducing a new Precision Medicine Initiative, supported with over $200 million in the proposed 2016 federal budget. "Precision Medicine"...more

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