At some point in our lives we all are going to face death. For those of us who are current survivors of advanced prostate cancer our death may come from our cancer, or it could come from another unrelated cancer, or a heart problem or any number of other causes. One thing is guaranteed we [...]
Today I heard back from a representative of the FDA about my concern and complaints surrounding the treatment of the public at FDA advisory committee meetings (my post of 11-20-07). It was explained to me that at the time of the advisory committee meeting for Satraplatin when the public was relegated to the rear of [...]
The First National LGBT Cancer Project was started by the Malecare in 2005. Including a lgbt cancer survivor social network, in person and online support groups and an informational lgbt cancer website , Malecare?s OutWithCancer lgbt cancer project is helping thousands of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender cancer patients every year.
On November 19, 2007, the FDA posted a consumer update entitled "New Steps to Improve Advisory Committee Processes." The stated goal of these actions is to strengthen its advisory committee process in ways which are consistent with recommendations of the Institute of Medicine. "One of FDA's strengths is that we routinely enlist the nation's leading [...]
Congress recently passed funding legislation (Labor-HHS-Education bill) which would have increased funding to the NIH by 2 billion dollars for a 2008 total of 30 billion dollars. However, President Bush vetoed the legislation citing his concern that there was too much “pork barrel” funding in the bill. He did not specify what specific parts of [...]