Researchers developed an analytic framework that linked housing cost and density, recent relocation and the number of children enrolled in public preschools to shorter breast cancer survival.
According to Joseph Boyle, PhD, a research instructor in the department of family medicine and population health at Virginia Commonwealth University, and colleagues, a growing body of evidence links neighborhood-level socioeconomic factors to cancer outcomes. Notably, they cited studies that found individuals in neighborhoods that rank highly on the Area Deprivation Index had a greater risk for adverse

The FDA’s recent announcement to reduce, and in some cases replace, animal testing for monoclonal antibodies and other therapeutics represents one of the most consequential regulatory developments in drug development in decades.
If implemented effectively, it will reshape how new biologic medicines reach patients and how regulators evaluate safety in the era of precision therapeutics. For clinicians, the shift has direct implications for how the safety and predictability of emerging biologic therapies will be assessed before they reach the clinic.
Although widely described as a “paradigm