New NCI director appointed

New NIH Director

In a previously reported investigation of 616 women with breast cancer included in a case-control study, we found an association between tumour stage at presentation and breast self examination (BSE) (Mant et al., 1987). Women who had both practised and been taught BSE had more favourably staged tumours than other women. A number of other studies, summarised in the meta-analysis by Hill et al. ...

Breast cancer stamp funds new NCI program.

F or the last 9 years, the U.S. Postal Service's breast cancer stamp has come to the rescue of breast cancer researchers in need of funding. Now a new program introduced by the National Cancer Institute narrows the focus of the research funded by the stamp but asks bigger questions. The proceeds from the stamp are now funneled into the breast cancer premalig-nancy program, which funds research ...

Are Appointed Judges Strategic Too?

The conventional wisdom among many legal scholars is that judicial independence can best be achieved with an appointive judiciary; judicial elections turn judges into politicians, threatening judicial autonomy. Yet the original supporters of judicial elections successfully eliminated the appointive systems of many states by arguing that judges who owed their jobs to politicians could never be t...

Newly Appointed Consultants

Newly-Appointed Consultants