'America can cure cancer': Obama announces national effort to fight disease
by Scott Bixby in New York from on (#10G70)
In State of the Union address, president calls for US to 'cure cancer once and for all', with Joe Biden at the helm of 'a new moonshot'
Barack Obama has channeled John Kennedy's space race with the Russians to pledge a new "moonshot", led by vice-president Joe Biden at "mission control", for the United States to win a new global health race and find a cure for cancer.
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