Monthly Archives: July 2015

A New Jersey Purchase, Upcoming AMR2015 Conference, and More

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• In an online July 9 article, NJBIZ.com highlights the purchase of a Montvale, New Jersey property by an affiliate of MSK for $37 million. Per the article, the 142,500-square-foot office building would be MSK’s third cancer center in New Jersey, and the seventh outside New York City.

• The Advances in Meditation Research (AMR) conference series has scheduled its biennial conference, AMR2015, for September 24 – September 25, at MSK’s Zuckerman Research Center. MSK conference speakers include Dr. Gary Deng, Dr. Mahiuddin Ahmed, and Dr. Sonia Sequeira.

• The non-profit organization, American Italian Cancer Foundation (AICF), co-funded a new study for MSK’s Dr. Andrea Ventura.

EBioMedicine Added to Library Resources

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EBioMedicine is a recently added open-access journal from ScienceDirect. The journal aims to be the premier venue bringing together basic research and clinical science to:

  • help the communities work together and
  • help them better understand the vital importance of the intersection between science and medicine

The scope of EBioMedicine will cover the entire breadth of translational and clinical research within all disciplines of life and health sciences, ranging from basic science to clinical and public/global health science.  The journal seeks to publish a broad range of research study types, from experimental findings, critical analyses, methodological & technical innovations, and hypotheses to observational epidemiological studies, clinical trials, meta-analyses, and study protocols.

The journal will also place a high priority on rapid publication. Researchers interested in publishing with EBioMedicine should consult the journal’s Guide for Authors.

This resource may be accessed through our Journal A-Z list.

New Thyroid Cancer Guidelines, NCI Blogging in Spanish and More…

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Some of the stories that caught my attention:

  • Researchers at King’s College London and the University of Strathclyde in France conducted an in-depth review of randomized trials of specific screening tests and found that the benefits of mammograms are likely to have been overestimated. The results were published as a systematic review in Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine. There have been a number of articles published lately in this area of ongoing debate.
  • University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute (UPCI) scientists recently led a panel of experts in revising national guidelines for thyroid cancer testing to reflect newly available tests that better incorporate personalized medicine into diagnosing the condition. Their clinical explanation for when to use and how to interpret thyroid cancer tests was published in Thyroid.
  • A new method for culturing stem cells has been developed by scientists at the University of Adelaide. The research is expected to lead to new treatments for transplant patients. Read more about this development in the journal Stem Cells.
  • NCI’s Cancer Current Blog is now available in Spanish. While not every blog post will be translated in Spanish, stories of specific interest to the Spanish-speaking population will appear in español.