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Cardinal Bank announced today that the Cardinal Bank Community Fund has awarded $5,000 to the Prevent Cancer Foundation. The mission of the Alexandria-based organization is to save lives through cancer prevention and early detection, and it has provided more than $130 million to support cancer prevention, early detection research, education, advocacy, and community outreach nationwide.
The Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation (MMRF) today joined the multiple myeloma community in celebrating the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) decision to grant accelerated approval of Pomalyst (Celgene Corporation, pomalidomide) for the treatment of patients with relapsed and refractory multiple myeloma who no longer respond to currently available treatments.
Researchers wondered if pay-for-performance (P4P) programs, which reward hospitals for meeting quality targets, have unintentional effects on racial and/or ethnic disparities. Using federal patient-level quality data, researchers found that "many hospitals treat Whites and minorities equitably" but they noted that since many minorities tend to seek care at hospitals that "perform poorly on common quality score composites, the pay for performance efforts could unintentionally penalize hospitals serving high numbers of minorities.
A study of DNA rearrangements in roundworm chromosomes may offer new insight into large-scale genome duplications that occur in developing tumors.
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