Partners HealthCare recently announced that its precision medicine biobank has enrolled over 100,000 individuals, helping researchers and clinicians at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Massachusetts...
The University of San Francisco announced the opening of a new cancer building that will focus on making precision medicine available to patients.
Also known as personalized medicine, precision...
Healthy Nevada, the state’s first-of-its kind large-scale population health study, is looking for more residents to contribute genomic data to better inform research and clinical care.
The...
Intermountain Healthcare and Geisinger Health System have each received recognition for their work in advancing precision medicine and improving patient care.
At Geisinger, researchers will receive a...
More than 60 leading healthcare organizations representing patients, providers, and academic medical centers have called on CMS to revise its interpretation of the National Coverage Determination (NCD)...
Consumer genetic test company 23andMe has announced a partnership with Lark Health, provider of AI-driven health coaching programs, to allow consumers to use genetic test results to inform their...
Electronic health records are not enough to support truly effective precision medicine at the point of care, said providers participating in a survey from KLAS research, but more targeted health IT...
Consumers will now be able to purchase an over-the-counter test to screen for genetic variants that may influence medication metabolism, the FDA has announced.
The direct-to-consumer test from 23andMe...
Healthcare consumers are cautious but optimistic that emerging strategies like artificial intelligence and advanced genetic testing can lead to better care for cancer, according to a new survey from...
The combination of machine learning tools and genomic data can help predict the risk of abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA), one of the most frequently fatal heart conditions - and one that is most often...
Researchers from Boston University School of Medicine, in collaboration with scientists from the Alzheimer’s Disease Sequencing Project (ADSP), have discovered new genes that could contribute to...
Boston Children’s Hospital has announced that it will offer complete DNA sequencing to 3000 patients with epilepsy and inflammatory bowel disease in an effort to target treatments and accelerate...
Precision medicine has taken the healthcare industry by storm in recent years, offering the promise of more individualized treatments, improved patient outcomes, and a deeper understanding of genetic...
The Alabama Genomic Health Initiative (AGHI) has begun recruiting participants for its population health program that will use genomic analysis to predict disease.
AGHI is a collaborative effort...
The discovery of genetic variants that are associated with cancer development could assist providers with identifying high-risk patients and crafting precision medicine therapies for oncology,...
Researchers at the West Virginia University (WVU) Cancer Institute are developing a genetic test that will improve treatment for patients with lung cancer and help physicians determine which patients...
Precision medicine is quickly moving out of the realm of science fiction and into the everyday routines of oncologists, neurologists, and other providers treating patients who may have had little hope...
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has awarded a $10 million, four-year grant to HudsonAlpha Institute of Biotechnology in support of their newborn whole genome sequencing project, which will help...
Intermountain Healthcare is launching a new precision medicine project that will allow researchers to take a prospective view on the potential of genomic data.
The PRECISE study allows for the...
