- View a video segment from CBS Program 60 Minutes of Jack Andraka, a high school student who at age 15 developed a test that might save lives by detecting early pancreatic cancer. (13.36 min)
- The October 14 issue (Vol 173, No. 18) of JAMA Internal Medicine features an essay “Academic Medicine in the 21st Century,” by Mark R. Laret, MA, CEO of UCSF Medical Center. The essay is based on his AAMC Chair’s address delivered at the November 2012 AAMC Annual Meeting.
- A new nanopharmaceutical may help overcome resistance to certain anticancer drugs.
- A new imaging technique that measures metabolic activity in cancer cells can help identify breast cancer subtypes and early treatment response.