— Quotable quotes heard by MedPage Today's reporters

June 28, 2026

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"I said, 'Wait a minute. Isn't this the same drug?'" -- Erick Turner, MD, of Oregon Health & Science University in Portland, discussing the FDA's approval of a depression drug that had more negative than positive studies.

"I hate to say cure -- but maybe we've cured patients." -- Stephen Schuster, MD, of Penn Medicine in Philadelphia, after nearly a third of patients with aggressive, untreatable lymphomas remained cancer-free a decade after a single dose of CAR T-cell therapy.