BACK of the BOOK
Heard in the Blogosphere
ASH
@ASH_hematology
The recent omnibus was so important for scientific
research and the important working being done to treat
and cure blood diseases and cancers. No #rescissions.
Don’t backtrack on the budget, @realDonaldTrump,
@GOPLeader. #FundScience and #Fight4Hematology
Aju Mathew, MD
@ajumathew
At the bank today, upon hearing that I take care of pts with
cancer, the manager said, “They come to us after they’ve
visited you”. #FinancialToxicity
Harlan Krumholz, MD
@hmkyale
The fact that some people use data to fit an agenda should
not be an argument against #openscience – scientific
community needs to work through the validity of what
people claim and report; but sharing data is a path to the
truth … not a detour.
Sara Jiang, MD
@Sara_Jiang
And now for something
a little different: what
two abnormalities
do you see here?
#PeripheralSmearCookies
#WhenNerdsBake
#MysteryCase #HemePath
Ira Hyman, PhD
@ira_hyman
From a lab discussion about my emotional state during
research projects. Anyone else have similar responses?
Genomic Testing for All
“Comprehensive genomic testing should be available to all U.S. cancer
patients for two general reasons: First, it can help individual patients.
… Second, this information benefits all of us, as a society. It’s essential
for research! … Patients should be demanding these tests. Because if
you’ve got a cancer that’s going to kill you, you should find out if it’s a
molecular match for a medication that might enable you to live longer,
or at least relieve your symptoms. Meanwhile insurance, public or
private, should pay for it, and I mean all of it: the diagnostic evaluation
and cancer treatment. Because that’s what insurance is for.”
—Elaine Schattner, MD, on the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ decision
to cover genomic testing in Forbes
Is NIH Funding Too Much Alternative
Medicine?
“Peer review of grant proposals submitted to the [National Institutes
of Health’s (NIH’s)] National Center for Complementary and Integrative
Health is performed by practitioners or promoters of alternative medi-
cine, not by experts in in the disease or condition under investigation.
This makes possible the funding of projects tha