Joe Biden talks health care, praises doctors in Cleveland (video, photos)

The actress said her “heart soared” when President Obama announced the moonshot effort, and she called Biden immediately to offer her help.

Vice President Joe Biden is holding a “Cancer Moonshot Summit” in Washington on Wednesday. Biden, whose son Beau died past year from brain cancer, announced the formation of an Oncology Center of Excellence at FDA, to coordinate and review all FDA cancer treatments. As a result, the VP managed to help Congress secure $264 million to the National Cancer Institute’s budget in the 2016 spending bill, part of the 6.6 percent funding raise for the National Institutes of Health. But Petrelli agreed with Biden: research could be sped up as it makes its way to the bedside of patients. This in turn is putting pressure on medical research centers to release their investigations on publicly accessible database within a year.

Those gathered at Avera Health’s cancer center have connected via video conference to what has been dubbed the “National Cancer Moonshot Summit“.

Biden says organizations must begin sharing findings from their research with each other or else run the risk of losing federal funding. Biden said he believed exponential progress could be made more quickly-adding that which previously took 10 years, now only took five.

Staudt hopes the donation by Foundation Medicine will inspire similar moves by other groups with data sets that would be valuable for cancer genomics.

When President Barack Obama tapped Biden to lead the initiative, the vice president said he was given authority over every Cabinet agency that has any possible impact in the fight against cancer. The first C4C Challenge is the Digital Mammography DREAM Challenge in partnership with Sage Bionetworks estimated at $1.2 million. He called out drug companies for unnecessary price increases and major research hospitals for insufficient collaboration. The API will enable third-party innovators, including Smart Patients, Syapse, Cure Forward, and Trial Reach, to use the new cancer clinical trial API to build apps, integrations, search tools and digital platforms tailored to individual communities that bring clinical trial information to more providers, patients and their family members.

At the same time, AP reported that cancer researchers and medical institutions have claimed to share the data already collected and often cooperate with themselves and government.

“We have to create better systems to share data and to empower patients to share and use their data the way they want to”, said Biden. John Theurer Cancer Center provides comprehensive multidisciplinary care, state of the art technology, and access to clinical trials, compassionate care and medical expertise- all under one roof. “We kind of need each other in this journey”.

Florida’s first case of a Zika-related birth defect has been reported by state officials.

The next most common causes of death are: chronic lower respiratory diseases such as emphysema; unintentional causes such as traffic crashes and drug overdoses; stroke; Alzheimer’s disease; diabetes; the flu and pneumonia; kidney disease; suicide; septicemia; chronic liver disease and cirrhosis; high blood pressure; Parkinson’s disease; and lung diseases caused by external agents, CNN reported.