The National Institute of Health (NIH) has awarded Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis $68 million to investigate and discover what contributes to extreme longevity. By studying hundreds of families with exceptionally long lives these researchers...
Veteran Baystate Health medical oncologist Grace Makari-Judson and Dr. Dawn Brooks, a new medical oncologist at the Baystate Regional Cancer Program, discuss new guidelines designed to help locate a greater number of women, including breast cancer survivors,...
University of Utah (UofU) allocated $1.6 million in year one and can earn up to $8.7 million for the next five years to assist the National Institutes of Health’s “All of Us” research program. The UofU will work with community representatives to develop educational...
Emory University School of Medicine’s Department of Human Genetics launched a BRCA screening for cancer risk in the metro-Atlanta area for people with Ashkenazi (Eastern or Central European) Jewish background. Why? Ashkenazi Jews are 10 times at greater risk of having...
A collaboration involving the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, the German Heart Center Munich, AstraZeneca, and Karolinska Institutet in Sweden has demonstrated that more than 30 percent of heart disease risk stems from genetic factors, much more than was...
Utah doctors believe effort will help Utahns with inherited risks avoid cancers and other illneses. Utahns are making history,reports the Deseret News. Intermountain Healthcare reports it has partnered with Icelandic-based deCODE genetics, an Amgen subsidiary and a...
