May 12, 2021: Dr. Diana Zuckerman, president of NCHR, writes to the North Salem Central School District Board of Education on the dangers of artificial turf.
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The Role of Environmental Regulations in the Fight Against Cancer
NYC NPR, May 10, 2021: President Biden wants a new agency within NIH to “end cancer as we know it.” Dr. Diana Zuckerman explains to NPR that EPA needs to do more to help prevent cancer.
Read More »Biden’s ‘end cancer’ pledge begs for environmental oversight
E&E News, May 4, 2021: President Biden pledged last week to “end cancer as we know it,” a bold promise focused on boosting funding to the National Institutes of Health for a special Advanced Research Projects Agency-Health. But public health experts who have spent their careers examining environmental causes of cancer say it may not be possible to truly stop cancer without EPA stepping in.
Read More »FDA Scrutinizes Pricey Cancer Drugs
Politico Pulse, April 28, 2021: Will FDA maintain approval for cancer drugs that are proven to not work? We were hoping for a reckoning, but that doesn’t seem likely as the doctors on the FDA Advisory panel tell FDA that they are hopeful that the drugs will eventually be proven to work.
Read More »Conflicts Galore: Upcoming Accelerated Approval Cancer Panel Includes Many Industry Relationships
Pink Sheet, April 21, 2021. Six members of the FDA Oncologic Drugs Advisory Committee had conflicts of interest requiring waivers to participate in the agency’s April 2021 meeting to review whether 3 cancer drugs should have their indications for late-stage breast cancer, bladder cancer, and gastric cancer removed from the market due to lack of evidence that they are effective.
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