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Writing about how the various COVID-19 vaccines work and the challenges that may lie with emerging genetic variants of SARS-CoV-2…
Sometimes exploring a topic requires more than one story … or three … and sometimes it involves a bit of…
Like mother, like daughter? Maybe so when it comes to healthy aging, according to a recent study. Daughters whose birth…
After decades of unfulfilled promises and setbacks, the field of gene therapy broke through with three FDA-approved products last year,…
One of the largest analyses of stroke factors ever conducted is providing scientists with new clues to identify stroke mechanisms…
In December 2016, Charles Piller (@cpiller), the west coast editor for Stat, reported that a genetic test to identify patients…
The placebo effect presents quite the conundrum to researchers attempting to discern whether a particular intervention truly offers clinical benefit…
The nation’s clinical laboratories have pushed back hard against a proposal by U.S. Food and Drug Administration in October 2014…
At a conference last year, Michael Laposata, M.D., Ph.D., one of the nation’s best known pathologists, explained how clinical laboratories…
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The White House has announced its anticipated “Precision Medicine Initiative,” which it describes as an “emerging field of medicine that takes into account…