Month: June 2009

Recommendations for how the Health and Human Services Office of the Secretary will spend $400 million in funds for patient-centered research, also known as comparative effectiveness research, were released today by Federal Coordinating Council for Comparative Effectiveness Research (CER).

Prometheus Laboratories Inc has announced the launch of MyCeliacID, the first do it yourself, saliva-based genetic test dedicated to celiac disease.

Researchers from the University of California, Davis have developed a specific and quantitative means of measuring levels of the fragile X mental retardation 1 (FMR1) protein (FMRP), which is mutated in fragile X syndrome.

Last weeks 1-hour presidential address to the American Medical Association ultimately set an ambitious tone that echoed efforts by House Democrats to fundamentally restructure health care in America.

Oxford Gene Technology (OGT) announces that the Center for Human Genetics at Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium, has begun assessment of its CytoSure arrays for use in prenatal diagnostic research.