Tag: Cancer

Rep. Tom Price, R-Ga., said the rule could disrupt the level of care that seniors receive by "limiting the level of treatments providers may offer despite what a patient's health conditions demand." (AP Photo)

Opposition mounts to Medicare payment experiments

Robert King · March 22, 2016 4:01 am

A paradigmatic shift in cancer research is under way, due to the advent of new treatments that may not principally target the tumor itself, but work by eliciting immune responses against the tumor (cancer immunotherapy). (Tim Boyle/Bloomberg)

The right time to invest in cancer research

Matthias Gromeier · March 15, 2016 4:02 am

FILE PHOTO - U.S. Mint Silver Dollar, left, and a Liberty Dollar Coin, right. (AP Photo/Alan Marler)

Dollar coin: Change that could help us achieve a “Moonshot”

jim-kolbe, reps-tim · March 9, 2016 12:00 pm

Former President Jimmy Carter made the announcement at his Sunday school class in Maranatha Baptist Church in his hometown of Plains, Ga. (Neil Hall/Pool Photo via AP, File)

Carter done with cancer treatments

Daniel Chaitin · March 6, 2016 10:24 pm

NIH is trying to attract a diverse pool of volunteers to establish a massive database of genetic data. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)

Obama announces next steps for precision medicine effort

Paige Winfield Cunningham · February 25, 2016 11:00 am

The complex face of cancer

Lisa Ruhl · February 4, 2016 7:23 pm

Obama to push Ryan, McConnell on cancer research

Nicole Duran · February 1, 2016 8:50 pm

"The initiative aims to bring about a decade's worth of advances in five years, making more therapies available to more patients, while also improving our ability to prevent cancer and detect it at an early stage," a White House news release stated. (AP photo/Susan Walsh)

Obama plans $1 billion for cancer ‘moonshot’

Nicole Duran · February 1, 2016 6:28 pm

Beginning in January, doctors can get reimbursed for advising terminally ill patients on what types of interventions they may want to accept or reject.Â (AP Photo/Jacqueline Larma)

Predictable NIH funding critical for cancer ‘moon shot:’ advocates

Robert King · January 14, 2016 5:01 am

But Louie Gohmert said Joe Biden has been in charge of other things under Obama, and had little success in getting things done. (AP Photo)

Lawmaker: Putting Biden in charge means getting nothing done

Pete Kasperowicz · January 13, 2016 6:49 pm

Obama: Let’s cure cancer

Paige Winfield Cunningham · January 13, 2016 2:43 am

1.6 million minors each year use indoor tanning beds, a 'known contributor to skin cancer.' (AP Photo/Phil Coale)

FDA proposes indoor tanning ban for minors

Robert King · December 18, 2015 5:23 pm