This week, PhRMA presented the 2012 Research & Hope Awards to researchers, academics and patient advocates for their work in the fight against Alzheimer’s disease (check out video from the event here). We selected Alzheimer’s disease as the focus for this year’s honors because of the looming challenge it poses to a growing number of [...]

Today, we’ve got a great guest blog post from Crawford Clay, a cancer survivor and Patient Advocacy Coordinator with the Colon Cancer Alliance, who is talking about a fun new project to raise awareness of colon cancer in communities across the US. When I was diagnosed with colon cancer, I didn’t know a lot about [...]

This summer there have been two high-profile Alzheimer’s drug failures. These setbacks are extremely disappointing to us all but particularly for patients and their families, health care providers, and the researchers working on these potential new medicines. Successful new drug approvals and spectacular failures (as they are often called) capture our attention. But what we [...]