As this year’s American Society of Clinical Oncology Genitourinary Cancers Symposium (ASCO GU) is upon us, I’ve been reflecting on the tremendous progress that has been made in the understanding and treatment of prostate cancer.
HIV remains one the biggest public health threats of our time. It is estimated that 36.7 million people are currently living with HIV globally, with at least 1.8 million more becoming newly infected each year.1
The publication of the World Health Organization (WHO)’s new Global Influenza Strategy gives us pause to reflect on where we currently stand in the fight against influenza and the challenges we face in preparing for inevitable future pandemics.
Recently, we celebrated International Women's Day (IWD), a global awareness day paying special tribute to the social, economic, cultural and political achievements of women. IWD is particularly important to me because it provides a chance to pause and reflect on how we are accelerating gender parity and empowering diversity.
This year’s World Immunization Week, themed, ‘Protected Together: Vaccines Work!’ celebrates ‘Vaccine Heroes’ from around the world. It gives us a moment to consider the significant leaps forward we have made as a society in reducing the threat of vaccine-preventable diseases and to recognize the men and women on the front-line, who work tirelessly towards tackling this global threat.
Today marks an exciting milestone: the full enrollment of volunteers in the first efficacy study for Janssen’s investigational preventive HIV vaccine.
Every year, I look forward to attending the ASCO Annual Meeting that brings together over 40,000 in the field of oncology. I cannot help but be inspired by the many people who have made it their life’s work to investigate and develop new approaches to treat cancer.
In the 1800s, there were several ways to photograph a single image. As image capture was refined, people noticed that successive still photos – or data points – stacked one after another at 10 to 12 frames per second (FPS) could simulate motion.
