An Open Letter to Sir Roy Griffiths

An open letter to cancer researchers.

OVER THE PAST TWO YEARS, PANEL DISCUSsions have been held to propose recommendations to the National Cancer Institute (NCI) regarding critical initiatives in cancer biology. One outcome was a proposal for a new initiative, the Human Cancer Genome Project (HCGP) (1). This program involves systematically analyzing genomic alterations in large numbers of human tumors to determine both common genet...

An open letter to the scientific journals

An open letter to my daughter.

The author writes a poignant "open" letter to her daughter about her experience with breast cancer, the family legacy of breast cancer, and the impact of learning there is a BRCA1 mutation in the family.

An open letter to President Bush.

The vital principle of “separation of church and state” grew out of the experience of early American Quakers and other minority religious groups. As Quakers in the modern world we are troubled that your administration appears ready to repudiate this historical principle through proposals known under the names "Charitable Choice" and "Faith-Based Initiative." We believe these measures will work ...

Ebola: an open letter to European governments.

After months of inaction and neglect from the international community, the Ebola epidemic in west Africa has now spiralled utterly out of control. Today, the virus is a threat not only to the countries where the outbreak has overwhelmed the capacity of national health systems, but also to the entire world. We urge our governments to mobilise all possible resources to assist west Africa in contr...