Salt Lake City-based University of Utah Huntsman Cancer Institute is employing virtual reality to help patients manage side effects and symptoms of prostate cancer treatment. Through a Defense Department-funded clinical trial, researchers studied incorporating VR into rehabilitation services, such as…
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The University of California San Diego has launched a master’s program for healthcare professionals looking to specialize in the development and delivery of precision oncology medicine. The Master of Advanced Studies in Precision Medicine Therapeutics in Oncology program aims to…
Dallas-based University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center has broken ground on a $177 million radiation oncology facility in Fort Worth. The facility is expected to open in 2028 and will be connected to UT Southwestern’s Moncrief Cancer Institute, according to…
Seventy-six percent of oncologists reported seeing an increasing number of patients presenting with advanced-stage cancer. Of those, 75% attributed the increase to screening barriers, according to a survey published May 13 by the Harris Poll on behalf of Quest Diagnostics. …
The federal government has halted previously approved funding for the study and manufacturing of a pediatric heart pump developed by researchers at Ithaca, N.Y.-based Cornell University. Engineering professor James Antaki, PhD, and his team began working on the pediatric heart…
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The cardiac surgery team at Washington, D.C.-based Children’s National Hospital has become the first in the world to replace an artificial heart valve with a live tissue valve through a partial heart transplant. Artificial heart valves are the standard of…
AdventHealth Celebration (Fla.) has appointed Omayra Mansfield, MD, as vice president and chief medical officer. Dr. Mansfield joins the hospital from AdventHealth Apopka (Fla.), where she’s served as CMO since 2020. Under her leadership, the hospital launched a STEMI program,…
House Republicans on May 11 floated a bill that would impose up to $715 billion in Medicaid and ACA cuts over the next decade — reductions that hospital leaders warn would leave millions without coverage and put essential hospitals at…
The FDA approved the first at-home screening test for cervical cancer on May 9, a move experts anticipate will help boost screening rates across the country. Five notes: 1. The test kit is made by Teal Health. Using the kit,…
Incorporating AI into mammography analysis could reduce the number of breast cancers developed between screenings by 30%, according to a study published April 18 in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute. Researchers at the University of California, Los Angeles…