Category: 6. Health

A newly identified genetic marker may significantly improve the ability to predict life-threatening reactions to the gout medication allopurinol in U.S. patients.

While the gene HLA-B*58:01 has long been used to screen patients in…

In a large cohort of patients with aortic stenosis (AS) who had equal access to medical care and insurance, those who lived in the most socioeconomically deprived neighborhoods were less likely to complete surveillance transthoracic…