A Florida state legislator sponsored the nation's first state-backed genetic screening program after his son died from a rare genetic disease.

Amid news of the splashy $4.8 billion Amicus buy, BioMarin has slipped in the discontinuation of a genetic liver disease candidate it had once hoped would become a best-in-class treatment. The oral ...

NEW YORK CITY (WABC) -- New York City is launching a groundbreaking program to prevent sudden deaths. The city's medical examiner will offer free genetic screening to at-risk family members of people ...

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Fellowship Medical Group and FellowshipLIFE launched a new program for older adults to help provide individualized care backed by genetic testing. The Personalized Genetic Wellness program is ...

Major Indiana life science players agreed to elevate the state’s biomanufacturing workforce at the annual BioCrossroads Life Sciences Summit. Leaders from BioCrossroads, Purdue University, Ivy Tech ...

MeiraGTx Holdings plc (NASDAQ:MGTX) stock is trading higher after the company inked a strategic collaboration in the area of ophthalmology with Eli Lilly and Co. (NYSE:LLY). MeiraGTx will grant Lilly ...

After its cannabidiol gel candidate failed a phase 3 trial in fragile X syndrome, Harmony Biosciences has now paused development of the asset in a different genetic disease. Harmony announced in ...

Rochester, N.Y. — The Rochester Fire Department responded to a home on Clifford Avenue Sunday morning following multiple calls reporting a fire.Due to the extr Two apartments damaged in Gates ...

ROCHESTER, N.Y. – Rochester Regional Health has launched a new genetic screening program, free of charge, to adults in our community. Almost anyone over the age of 18 is eligible to take part in the ...

GREENSBORO, N.C. (WGHP) — A test in the Triad that can tell if you have an increased chance of breast cancer, ovarian cancer, colon cancer and heart disease, and it’s completely free. “Some people do ...