Genetics

Good medicine depends on diversity

Precision medicine represents a revolution in health care. Doctors and researchers may soon be able to use the genetic profiles of patients to predict with great accuracy which treatment and prevention protocols will work ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Court decision protects patient care 340B hospitals

The Dec. 27 federal court injunction stopping further cuts in 340B reimbursements for Medicare Part B drugs to some participating hospitals is a critical step in preserving the role that academic health centers play in providing ...

Medical research

Emergency contact information helps researchers branch out family tree

When you go to the doctor or hospital, one piece of information that you're always asked to provide—in addition to your name, address, and insurance information—is an emergency contact. Often, that person is a blood relative. ...

Genetics

To find disease risk, genetics provides mother of all shortcuts

In a new study in the journal Circulation: Cardiovascular Genetics, Vanderbilt University's Jonathan Mosley, M.D., Ph.D., and colleagues use genetic correlation to link two unrelated biomedical data sets, one from a longstanding ...

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