- According to a May 10 Metro News article, MSK employees have embraced Transportation Alternatives’ Bike to Work Challenge, “racking up 1470 miles across the city” in the first ten days. And it is not too late to join – the challenge ends on May 22.
- On another healthy note, MSK counts itself among one of the workplaces that is a member of the Farmigo community, as was mentioned in a recent Forbes interview with the startup. Farmigo is a company that delivers healthy, farm-fresh food to consumers where they work.
- On May 6, five MSK nurses and one patient care technician were honored with Rudin Awards for their outstanding service: Natalie Bell, Jaime McNally, Ethel Oliphant, Erica Fischer-Cartlidge, Rhonda D’Agostino, and Kimberly Chow.
- MSK research collaborations with other cancer centers also made the news this week:
- The Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Boston Children’s Cancer and Blood Disorders Center joined a clinical trial led by MSK that will use gene therapy techniques to harness the power of pediatric patients’ own immune system to fight their leukemia.
- MSK’s Dr. Omar Abdel-Wahab collaborated with scientists at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center and Yale University on research that revealed that a gene mutation that alters RNA splicing is likely responsible for myelodysplastic syndrome, a condition which can be a precursor to acute myeloid leukemia.
- Project Data Sphere, a cancer clinical trial research data sharing/integrating/analyzing technology initiative that MSK has been contributing to, turned 1 year-old on May 11.
Monthly Archives: May 2015
New! AccessGUDID Database
The FDA, in partnership with the National Library of Medicine (NLM), recently announced that data submitted to FDA’s Global Unique Device Identification Database (GUDID) is now publicly available through AccessGUDID. Users can utilize AccessGUDID to search for and download information that device labelers have submitted to the FDA’s GUDID about their medical devices.
Because the UDI system is being phased in over the next several years, labelers are currently submitting data on only the highest risk medical devices, a small subset of marketed devices. But as the system is implemented according to the UDI compliance timeline, the records of all medical devices required to have a UDI will be included.
AccessGUDID may be found on the Library’s Database A-Z listing.
The Latest in Cancer Research, Cancer Care and More…
Here are a few highlights of cancer research news that have recently caught my attention:
- The Wall Street Journal’s Simon Constable recently sat down with MSK’s CEO Dr. Craig Thompson to discuss improvements in cancer research and cancer care and future trends that include precision medicine:
- The NIH named Dr. Eliseo Perez-Stable director of the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities. Dr. Perez-Stable received his medical degree from the University of Miami and completed his residency at the University of California, San Francisco.
- A recent study, published in the Journal of Clinical Oncology, found that there are racial disparities in male breast cancer outcomes. The study identified 725 black males and 5,247 white males diagnosed with early stage breast cancer. While the treatments were very similar, the outcomes were different depending on age and access to health insurance.
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