For the first time, researchers claim to have used a healthy person's complete genome sequence to predict his or her risk for dozens of diseases and how that person will respond to several common medications.The risk analysis, from the Stanford

People go to hospitals to be treated for an illness or for corrective surgery with the expectation they will return home in much better health than when they entered the medical facility.The reality, though, is that many may never recover or A a

Purchases of cholesterol and diabetes prescription drugs by elderly Medicare beneficiaries reached nearly $19 billion in 2007, equating to about one-fourth of the approximately $82 billion spent for medications for the elderly, says the federal for

In a new study, researchers at Mount Sinai School of Medicine, in New York City, claim to have taken a major step toward gaining the ability to predict adverse drug reactions, by using genetic, cellular, and clinical information to learn why some

Providence Physicians Services, a doctors group that's part of the Providence Health Care network here, is opening clinics specializing in epilepsy and stroke and transient ischemic attack (TIA) in a combined space in the Sacred Heart Doctors A TIA

Infrastructure upgrades are under way at Newport Community Hospital, in Newport, Wash., to free up space to consolidate some of the hospital's functions and eventually open an outpatient clinic there, says the architect on the project.The Don of

A consortium of Spokane-based Inland Northwest Health Services, the North Idaho Health Network Inc., of Coeur d'Alene, and four other nonprofit groups has been awarded a $12.8 million federal stimulus grant intended to boost adoption of electronic

Having health insurance doesn't mean workers will take advantage of immunizations, cancer screenings, and other preventive health services, a new study finds."Employment and insurance do not guarantee better health outcomes," says lead study M.

Researchers at Johns Hopkins say they have discovered how red wine consumption might protect the brain from damage following a stroke. Two hours after feeding mice a single modest dose of resveratrol, a compound found in the skins and seeds of a