Who Has Your Gene Data?
Myriad Genetics held patents on the BRCA1 and BRCA 2 genes until 2013 and tested more than 1 million patients
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Health Care – General
What To Do About Antibiotic Resistance
Seven hundred thousand people are killed each year by drug-resistant infections. Many people mistakenly believe that human beings, not bacteria, develop
Read MoreAre Your Bad Habits Killing You?
A team at Harvard Medical School calculated that 20 to 40 percent of cancer cases and half of cancer deaths
Read MoreStudy Of Birth Defects, Folic Acid In Foods Finds More Questions Than Answers
(By Barbara Feder Ostrov for Kaiser Health News) Adding folic acid to foods like cereal and bread — long considered
Read MorePeople With HIV Are Less Likely To Get Cancer Treatment
(By Michelle Andrews for Kaiser Health News) We’ve made great progress treating people who are infected with HIV, but if
Read MorePrecision Medicine What Is It and How Is It Helping In The Fight Against Cancer
Precision medicine is the practice of targeting biological markers on a patient’s tumors, and is proving to be more effective
Read MoreBreathalyzer Test is Not Just for Alcohol Anymore
Joseph Azzarelli, MIT student and Ph.D. candidate, won the MIT Entrepreneurship Competition with a simple breathalyzer test that could diagnose
Read MoreGeorgia Women Weigh Zika Risks As Mosquito Season Arrives
(By Michell Eloy, WABE for Kaiser Health News) Earlier this year, Katy Mallory’s husband, Dan, traveled to Mexico for business.
Read MoreInspectors Find Calif. Hospital’s Pharmacy Posed Infection Risk
(By Chad Terhune for Kaiser Health News) More than 7,300 patients at a San Diego-area hospital may have been exposed
Read MoreIs High Cost of Drugs Our Future?
In the article authored by Leigh Purvis and Crystal Kuntz, the authors state it’s time to stop viewing drug products with
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