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Apr 1, 2011
Appropriate use of existing diagnostic tests for infections, and development of better ones, could reduce overuse of antibacterial drugs.
Nov 1, 2010
We provide population-based prevalence estimates for moderate and strong familial risk for five common cancers and hereditary breast-ovarian cancer and hereditary nonpolyposis colon cancer.
Jul 1, 2009
The goal of this project was to assess genetic/genomic content in electronic health records.
Research Summary
Apr 2, 2008
This fact sheet summarizes recommendations for health care workers, consumers, and the scientific community to prepare the health care system for genomic medicine for common chronic diseases.
Press
Mar 18, 2008
Although advances in genomic medicine for common adult chronic diseases such as heart disease, diabetes, and cancer hold promise for improved prevention, diagnosis and treatment, health professionals and the public are not prepared to effectively integrate these new tools into practice.
Jan 1, 2008
Synthesizes current information on genetic health services for common adult-onset conditions by examining studies that have addressed the outcomes, consumer information needs, delivery, and challenges in integrating these services.
Jan 1, 2001
Outlines a global agenda for the United States and advocates "selective global leadership" and "strengthened and revitalized alliances"; also discusses key points in a national science and technology agenda for the new administration.
The author warns that genomic medicine runs the risk of diverting the attention of medicine away from what the public and its critics have been saying
Apr 1, 1983
Develops a mathematical model of double minute (dm) population dynamics based on current concepts of the saltatory replication, random partitioning, nuclear exclusion and loss, and cellular growth inhibition of these extrachromosomal elements.
