Prevent Blindness, the nation's leading patient advocacy organization dedicated to protecting and preserving eye health, has ...

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A clinician-led approach boosts genetic testing among relatives of people with newly detected pathogenic variants — and could help close a gap in hereditary cancer prevention.

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A new study published in JCO Precision Oncology has identified a relatively simple method to predict the cancer patients most likely to develop severe toxicities from chemotherapy. If doctors can ...

The International Olympic Committee issued a new policy last month, banning transgender women from participating in women's ...

A virtual tool can facilitate cascade genetic testing for relatives of people with cancer who have pathogenic variants, ...

Genetic testing can feel overwhelming, especially when faced with terms like "pathogenic variant" or "variant of uncertain significance." Understanding your results is key to making informed health ...

Researchers say a gene therapy allowed deaf children and adults as old as 32 to hear for the first time. The benefits have ...

The health fair will also offer a lung cancer screening bus and presentations covering ovarian cancer, women’s health, ...