Archive for the ‘Cancer’ Category

Julia
Dolinsky

Angelina Jolie: You go girl!

Friday, May 17th, 2013

Angelina Jolie is famous for her amazing acting roles and attractive husband and kids. After years of dedicated service to The UN Refugee Agency, last April Jolie was appointed Special Envoy of António Guterres, UN High Commissioner for Refugees. It looks like she has it all put together. But no one is perfect, not even Angelina Jolie.

During her story recently published in the New York Times, Jolie talks about her mother’s cancer diagnosis and how hard it is to know her children will never meet their grandmother. After testing positive for mutated BRCA1 and BRCA2, genes shown to be involved in inherited breast cancer, she decided to take action. (more…)

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Mary Ellen
Hackett

Can “Isolated” Human DNA Be Patented? U.S. Supreme Court Set to Decide Pivotal Case

Monday, April 15th, 2013

Ask a friend or colleague to name a landmark Supreme Court decision, and many might cite Roe v. Wade or perhaps Dred Scott v. Sandford, from 1973 and 1857, respectively.

Fast forward to the present: All eyes in the scientific community will be on the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday, when the justices will consider a question that poses huge consequences for research and innovation, and immeasurable reward for scientific discoveries.

In Association for Molecular Pathology v. Myriad Genetics, the Court will ultimately determine whether human genes can be patented. (more…)

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John
Seng

Lance’s Next Chapter?

Friday, January 18th, 2013

From Spectrum’s 2005 Tour of Hope campaign on behalf of Bristol-Myers Squibb

Along with 3.2 million other viewers, I watched “Oprah’s Next Chapter: Lance Armstrong” last night knowing pretty much what to expect, yet still both shocked and awed by Lance’s ultimate up close and personal recantations of innocence.

From 1999 through 2005, Spectrum worked with Lance Armstrong in a national media campaign we originally conceived as The Cycle of Hope that evolved to the Bristol-Myers Squibb Tour of Hope after two years.

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John
Seng

CTV Interviews John Seng About Armstrong Controversy

Wednesday, January 16th, 2013

Following my op-ed in Saturday’s Washington Post, CTV News contacted me to participate in a live interview this morning about the Lance Armstrong controversy. Click the image below to view the segment.

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John
Seng

It’s Time For Armstrong To Come Clean – The Washington Post Publishes John Seng Op-Ed

Monday, January 14th, 2013

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Seng Interview With CNN On Armstrong Controversy

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I’d be interested to know your thoughts.

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John
Seng

No Thanks, Big Tobacco

Monday, November 12th, 2012

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Last month, I attended the Global Tobacco Briefing hosted by the American Cancer Society (ACS) and World Lung Foundation, as invited by my daughter Victoria Seng, an associate specialist with ACS’s Cancer Action Network (CAN) here in Washington.

Listening to global experts shed light on the health and economics that the tobacco industry would rather we not know was a real eye-opener for me during the morning National Press Club briefing.

Suffice to say, tobacco companies prolong preventable epidemics in cancer, heart disease and other conditions by exploiting trade agreements and abusing local legal systems throughout the world. (more…)

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