Precision medicine has touched every aspect of healthcare today, and—as is evident from President Obama’s State of the Union speech for 2015—is front of mind with the federal government, which ...

A third-party testing firm has deemed Florida’s new battery of statewide standardized exams valid, meaning the test scores will be used to help decide whether students should be held back, to ...

Association of a Lay Health Worker–Led Intervention on Goals of Care, Quality of Life, and Clinical Trial Participation Among Low-Income and Minority Adults With Cancer We used a simplified version of ...

In my previous blog post, I noted that reliability and validity are two essential properties of psychological measurement. Measures of intelligence, personality, vocational interests, and so forth ...

Genetic variants associated with drug response or drug-related adverse events can potentially be used to improve the efficacy and safety of drugs. 1, 2, 3 Pharmacogenetic tests are generally thought ...

The rapid pace of development in the field of genetics has increased our knowledge of the molecular basis of disease. This information is now being applied to the development of genetic tests, which ...