- Last week Mayor Bloomberg, MSKCC, CUNY and Hunter College announced plans to build two new science and medical facilities on the Upper East Side.
- The New York Times reported that veterinarians from the Animal Medical Center began meeting with their counterparts at MSKCC to set up trials of a noninvasive device for removing tumors of the urinary tract with electrical impulses.
- Acupuncture for the treatment of chronic pain is better than placebo acupuncture (sham acupuncture) or no acupuncture at all, researchers from MSKCC wrote in the JAMA journal Archives of Internal Medicine.
- In a recent study published in the New England Journal of Medicine, MSKCC’s Howard I. Scher and colleagues found that men with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer after chemotherapy have improved survival and secondary end points after treatment with enzalutamide vs. placebo.