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Colon Cancer Screening for Older Adults For adults ages 45 to 75, it is recommended to do routine screening for colorectal cancer — also called colon cancer — or for…

WASHINGTON, DC — The Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) today announced funding awards totaling $123 million to support 15 new research studies. These studies aim to fill evidence gaps, enhance…

The eighth PCORI Annual Meeting last month highlighted so much of what makes our community special: a broad, diverse range of engaged stakeholders; inspirational expert speakers; compelling results from patient-centered…

Every day of the year, and not just during National Sickle Cell Awareness Month, Ashley Valentine, co-founder, and president of Sick Cells , celebrates the legacy of her late brother…

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Registration is now open for the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI)’s 2022 Annual Meeting , a free, virtual event running October 26-27 that brings together patients and…

More than 100,000 people in the United States have sickle cell disease —a group of inherited red blood cell disorders that affect blood flow and the body’s use of oxygen…

WASHINGTON, DC—The Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) Board of Governors today approved several slates of funding awards totaling about $71.5 million to support 12 new comparative clinical effectiveness research (CER)…

WASHINGTON, DC—The Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) Board of Governors today approved an award slate with $32.7 million for a large, multi-phase comparative clinical effectiveness research (CER) study to compare…

Multiple sclerosis is an often disabling neurological condition that affects about 400,000 people in the United States. People with MS can develop a wide variety of symptoms, including vision problems…

At its core, screening for breast cancer aims to save lives. The idea is intuitively attractive: Find a tumor early, before the disease becomes more serious, and some combination of…

Although new results from an ongoing PCORI-funded study into whether some patients with multiple sclerosis (MS) can safely stop taking certain kinds of medications as they age weren’t conclusive in…

For older adults, guidelines recommend clinicians and patients work together to make decisions about colorectal cancer screening (CRC). However, these conversations must consider several factors and can be challenging. The…

Some patients who receive chemotherapy develop a serious health problem called febrile neutropenia (FN), which involves having a fever and a low number of a type of white blood cells…