Greater Clinical Trial Accessibility Yields Better Outcomes When presented with a serious, life-threatening diagnosis, patients and their loved ones want answers. In some cases, those answers are not yet available, however they are under development. Clinical trials seek to resolve medicine’s unanswered questions. In order for the broadest swath of patients to benefit from clinical trial discoveries, the trial’s patient

Support for Caregivers of Veterans Family caregivers are on-call 24/7. It is a commitment for which there is no day-off. For this reason, family caregivers need support to keep their batteries’ fully charged. The Veterans Affairs’ (VA) Program of Comprehensive Assistance for Family Caregivers (PCAFC) addresses the complexity and expense of keeping loved ones out of institutions and at home

Going Bold to Bolster Breakthrough If it takes a village to raise a child, it takes a fearless, tireless, multinational army to achieve breakthrough cancer therapies. Countless researchers on every continent (yes, cancer research happens in Antarctica) dedicate their careers to unlocking the cancer labyrinth and solving the how and why of this brutal disease. But… a new, bolder approach

Patient Care during Recovery from COIVD As COVID triggered sharp spikes in demand for care in hospital ICUs, it also suspended routine primary care visits, preventative screenings and diagnostic testing. These are the principal methods used to detect many forms of cancer. Researchers at the University of Massachusetts Medical School found that combined rates for mammography and PSA screening declined

Keep Medicine Nimble A recent blog post by Dr. Francis Collins, Director of the National Institutes of Health, about the value of repurposing drugs reminds us that medicine must be nimble. Just as NIH researchers are looking at putting older drugs to work against a new threat – COVID-19 – physicians must look at alternative therapies for patients for which

That’s Good Medicine In a guest commentary piece in ASCO Connections, Dr. Dawood Findakly writes “Patients are human beings; they are not numbers in medical records or compelling cases to read about and treat. They are people with lives and families.” As fast-paced and hectic as medical care is, especially in light of the COVID pandemic, Dr. Findakly’s words are