November 12th 2023
Healthcare researchers say it’s critical to get more women, Black and Latino participants in clinical trials. It can be done, but researchers and institutions must make the effort.
Bea Leopold knows only too well how traumatic and potentially life-altering genetic testing can be. Having a sister with ovarian cancer and a mother who died of breast cancer convinced Leopold to be tested three-and-a-half years ago for the BRCA gene, which is predictive of both kinds of cancer.
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The ruckus over designer babies, human cloning and genetic discrimination has colored much of the debate and perception of genetic services, but the discipline is gaining momentum as research propels new tests to determine the susceptibility to more common diseases, as well as a slew of rare ones.
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Managing America's toughest challenges
January 1st 2002Perhaps the greatest criticism leveled at America's healthcare system is the fact that millions of people have no healthcare insurance at all. Our physicians are among the best trained in the world, and the equipment and technology they work with is state of the art. But those things are meaningless to patients who fall between the cracks of the system and can't access that care.
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