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Detroit-based Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Institute, a McLaren Health Care-owned facility, has named Boris Pasche, MD, PhD, as the center's new president and CEO, according to an Aug. 7 news release.

Three more cancer drugs are in short supply, according to the FDA and the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists.

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Idaho has the top mean pay for cardiologists in the country, according to data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

While still in contract negotiations, registered nurses at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute - Merrimack Valley in Methuen, Mass., voted 33 to 1 to authorize a one-day strike, the Massachusetts Nurses Association said in an NBC Boston report. 

Researchers at Los Angeles-based City of Hope recently announced promising results for a new chemotherapy pill that "appears to annihilate all solid tumors," according to research published Aug. 1 in Cell Chemical Biology. 

The FDA approved GSK's Jemperli (dostarlimab) in combination with carboplatin and paclitaxel for adults with primary advanced or recurrent endometrial cancer who are mismatch repair deficient or microsatellite instability-high.

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