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ANNOUNCEMENT Sociologists for Women in Society (SWS) is currently accepting applications for the 2015 Barbara Rosenblum Dissertation Scholarship for the Study of Women and Cancer. SWS is a nonprofit, scientific and educational organization with members in the U.S. and overseas. Its mission is to promote and disseminate research about women; educate colleagues, the general public, . . . → Read More: Call for Applications – SWS Dissertation Scholarship Award 
“Why Drugs Cost So Much,” Peter Bach, The New York Times. ELI LILLY charges more than $13,000 a month for Cyramza, the newest drug to treat stomach cancer. The latest medicine for lung cancer, Novartis’s Zykadia, costs almost $14,000 a month. Amgen’s Blincyto, for leukemia, will cost $64,000 a month. Cyramza costs the average . . . → Read More: Why Drugs Cost So Much
“Doing More for Patients Often Does No Good,” Aaron E. Carroll, The New York Times. Given the remarkable advances that have been made in the last 50 or so years in pharmaceuticals, medical devices and surgical procedures, it’s not a surprise that people want more, and more invasive, care than they have had in the . . . → Read More: Doing More for Patients Often Does No Good 
Waiting for Cancer to Come weaves together women’s beliefs and experiences of genetic testing and its impact on their lives, families, and futures. Their detailed accounts of how they prepared for testing, made sense of the results, and made decisions about what to do with the information and cope with the aftermath are a window . . . → Read More: Book Review: Waiting for Cancer to Come
“Shirley Temple Black: She broke the silence about breast cancer,” Peggy Orenstein, The New York Times. In the fall of 1972, Shirley Temple Black noticed a lump in her left breast. Peggy Orenstein writes that it’s hard to imagine now, when celebrity breast-cancer diagnoses bring an inevitable publicity windfall, how risky it was for this . . . → Read More: The Lives They Lived: Shirley Temple Black
“Courageous Nonprofit Leadership Groups Are Greatly Needed,” Pablo Eisenberg, Chronicle of Philanthropy. As the government has shrunk its role, the public expects more of nonprofits, but such groups can’t shoulder that burden unless they have more dollars at their disposal. Most grant makers don’t give more than the 5 percent of assets that is the . . . → Read More: Courageous Nonprofit Leadership Groups Greatly Needed 
Focus on Fracking This past October, more people than usual asked important questions about pink ribbon commercialism, pinkwashing, and ways to deepen breast cancer awareness. You can find articles and op-eds featuring Breast Cancer Consortium (BCC) members here and other relevant pieces in the BCC News & Views archive. If you’ve been following Pink Ribbon . . . → Read More: BCC Quarterly Is Out! (Issue 4)
“Don’t Homogenize Health Care,” Sandeep Jauhar The New York Times. In American medicine today, “variation” has become a dirty word. Variation in the treatment of a medical condition is associated with wastefulness, lack of evidence and even capricious care. To minimize variation, insurers and medical specialty societies have banded together . . . → Read More: Don’t Homogenize Health Care
“San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium (SABCS) Underway,” SABCS. The San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium (SABCS) is the largest scientific meeting devoted to breast cancer. Geared primarily for clinicians and researchers, breast cancer advocates now regularly attend the meeting. For 16 years, the Alamo Breast Cancer Foundation (ABCF) has planned and run a . . . → Read More: San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium (SABCS)
“My Great-Great-Aunt Discovered Francium. And It Killed Her.” By Veronique Greenwood, The New York Times Magazine. 75 years ago, Marguerite Perey unearthed an element on the periodic table while working as a technician in Marie Curie’s lab. Her achievement came at a great cost. Science moved on, as it does; in 20 years’ . . . → Read More: My Great-Great-Aunt Discovered Francium. And It Killed Her. |
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