Biden Vows Quicker US Approval of Cancer Drug Combinations

U.S. Vice President Joe Biden said Tuesday that the United States would speed up the approval of promising new drug combinations in his government's newly announced drive to cure cancer "once and for all." Biden, who lost his son Beau, 46, to brain cancer last year, set out his plans at a World Economic Forum meeting of international cancer experts in Davos, a week after being appointed to lead the initiative by President Barack Obama. So-called combination therapy is...

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