Congratulations, Partnership, Drug Costs, and MSK Publications

Posted on November 2, 2015 by Donna

While browsing the news, these are some of the stories that rose to the top!

Congratulations to the winner of Revlon’s LOVE IS ON Million Dollar Challenge – “Cycle for Survival” team from Memorial Sloan Kettering (MSK) raised over $950,000 that will go to support women’s cancer, heart disease and diabetes. Dr. Craig Thompson, MSK’s President and CEO is quoted.

SELLAS Life Sciences Group (SELLAS), a development-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on innovative products to treat cancers and central nervous system diseases, recently announced that it has appointed to its Scientific Advisory Board – Larry W. Kwak, MD, PhD, of the City of Hope National Medical Center, and Jedd D. Wolchok, MD, PhD, of MSK. Congratulations to both new members.

Avera Cancer Institute joins the Worldwide Innovation Network (WIN Consortium) focused on personalized cancer care. Other members include MSK, as well as, New York University Langone Medical Center, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, and University of California San Diego Moores Cancer Center.

Another article about drug cost! Elizabeth D. Kantor, an assistant attending epidemiologist at MSK and her colleagues recently reported in a JAMA publication, trends in prescription drug use among adults in the United States from 1999 to 2012.

Check out Synapse, MSK Publication database – discover recent works by MSK researchers, clinicians, nurses, and health care professionals!

Halloween Blog Posts…

For Open Access Week, Barbara Fister wrote a great post called Checking our Library Privilege on Inside Higher Education, which I missed in my last post. “My wish this Open Access Week is that we all examine our privilege and think about what it is we want to do in the world as scholars and librarians – and commit to changing the systems we’re implicated in that makes knowledge available at high cost for the few for only as long as subscriptions are paid. We don’t have to do it that way anymore.”

Look at these rare book gifs from Girl in the Moon! She explains how she made them with simple tools (tripod, camera, Photoshop) using materials for an upcoming exhibition. Check them out!

With Halloween approaching, here are some silly and some legitimately scary items I’ve come across lately; Continue reading →

Posted on October 27, 2015 by Donna

Here are a few worthy news items about MSK staff:

When Should I Get a Mammogram? News video (8:51 min) featuring Dr. Larry Norton from MSK and other breast cancer experts.

From the MSK On Cancer Blog, Immunologist Alexander Rudensky discusses new approaches for treating cancer.

To Reduce the Cost of Drugs, Look to Europe. Read what other countries are doing. Dr. Peter B. Bach, Director, Center for Health Policy and Outcomes from MSK is mentioned in reference to the cancer drug Tarceva. Continue reading →