I really wish this was available earlier, because I just lost a family member to bladder cancer yesterday morning. :(
Sorry for your loss.
New treatment eliminates bladder cancer in 82% of patients
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I know I may get some flack for this. But IMO, you shouldn't make waves when you are a VISA guest in another country. It's just a bad idea all around. There's every reason to actively avoid getting politically involved. While I realize that US higher education is particularly motivated towards activism, protests and the like. Historically accepting even foreign nationals in such activity. It's still just a bad idea for non-citizens in any country to do so.
I do think a lot of grant funding will cycle back around. There's every reason for commercial sourcing to become a larger portion of university funding as well as university funding directly from endowments considering the profit motivations in both cases. I think it's far from dead, just changing.
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I know I may get some flack for this. But IMO, you shouldn't make waves when you are a VISA guest in another country. It's just a bad idea all around. There's every reason to actively avoid getting politically involved. While I realize that US higher education is particularly motivated towards activism, protests and the like. Historically accepting even foreign nationals in such activity. It's still just a bad idea f…
I don't think everyone that got their funding pulled made waves. Terrance Tao for example had funding pulled simply for being associated with the wrong school.
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#24To be clear, here is the rest of what the article title should be...
> ...for individuals with high-risk non-muscle-invasive bladder cancer whose cancer had previously resisted treatment
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The US isn't the only country with prestigious universities, that partially function on a form of social taxpayer welfare, that innovate in the medical field In fact, some other developed nations do it in far greater percentages of the universities' independent revenue. Many also have quite comparatively easy immigration paths for both students and workers.
The scale of the US research program, compared to the rest of the world, is about an order of magnitude difference.
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#26My (non-AI) Summary: - "TAR-200 is a miniature, pretzel-shaped drug-device duo containing a chemotherapy drug, gemcitabine, which is inserted into the bladder through a catheter. Once inside the bladder, the TAR-200 slowly and consistently releases the gemcitabine into the organ for three weeks per treatment cycle." - Phase 2 Clinical Trial - 85 patients with high-risk non-muscle-invasive bladder cancer - "treated pa…
Unfortunately the recurrence rate after 1 year here is still quite high. Good progress, but not a cure yet.
Do cancers have a tendency to come back with better drug resistance if it's not fully eliminated? at least a resistance to the drug that got rid of it the previous time?
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I know I may get some flack for this. But IMO, you shouldn't make waves when you are a VISA guest in another country. It's just a bad idea all around. There's every reason to actively avoid getting politically involved. While I realize that US higher education is particularly motivated towards activism, protests and the like. Historically accepting even foreign nationals in such activity. It's still just a bad idea f…
1) Why would companies pay for basic research? They used to get that research for free.
2) Very few schools have endowments that are large enough to support current faculty research costs; even Harvard can only support all research off their endowment for about a year.
3) Endowments are now taxed, so they will have even less available for research.
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I know I may get some flack for this. But IMO, you shouldn't make waves when you are a VISA guest in another country. It's just a bad idea all around. There's every reason to actively avoid getting politically involved. While I realize that US higher education is particularly motivated towards activism, protests and the like. Historically accepting even foreign nationals in such activity. It's still just a bad idea f…
Corporations were funding scientific innovation indirectly through corporate taxes and they fought with every fiber of their being to cut those taxes because they didn't want to pay for it.
If you think they will suddenly have a change of heart and start funding scientific discovery not just indirectly, but directly, then I have a bridge to sell you.
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And for some reason a contingent of HN is cheering it on. We are breaking the innovation machine and pretending discoveries will just keep happening.
In any sizable group, you're going to find a vocal jackass minority. But here, at least, they genuinely seem to be the minority.
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#30Earlier quoted context omitted.
Unfortunately the recurrence rate after 1 year here is still quite high. Good progress, but not a cure yet.
Do cancers have a tendency to come back with better drug resistance if it's not fully eliminated? at least a resistance to the drug that got rid of it the previous time?
Emphatically so, yes