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CANCER: Bridging The Gap Between Basic Research And Health Policy

Tuesday, December 4th, 2007

Last week, Health Affairs published three interviews [one-week free access] that I conducted with leading cancer oncologists. As Donald Kennedy, editor-in-chief of Science, and I wrote in an introduction to these interviews:
“An intellectual chasm exists between those who do innovative research and those who deliver it. Researchers and physician-scientists read different journals than their counterparts in health policy or […]

HEART DISEASE: Progress And Promise Of “Personalized Medicine”

Monday, January 29th, 2007

By any measure, heart disease, once manifest by sudden death, has largely joined the ranks of chronic diseases in developed countries that can be managed by drugs and behavior, as several articles in the new January-February issue of Health Affairs devoted to Cardiovascular Disease & Society note. And of all diseases that have been […]


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