Posts tagged with ‘Cancer’
“We are very grateful to have a president who respects science,” said Director Francis Collins this morning, addressing staff and leaders of the National Institutes of Health. Collins was introducing the man he referred to as “our scientist in chief,” Barack Obama.
The president paid a visit to the NIH campus in Bethesda to announce what [...]
The National Cancer Institute funds a lot of important research aimed at treating cancer, but some experts would characterize very little of it as transformative work. Gina Kolata’s article in the Sunday New York Times describes a system geared towards incrementalism rather than high-risk, high-return science.
But a dearth of transformative work isn’t the only thing [...]
The “war on cancer” devotes too much in search of new cures and too little to understanding the results of existing oncology therapies.
