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Blood Tests That Detect Cancers Create Risks for Those Who Use Them
With 44 million Medicare beneficiaries and an annual test costing about $1,000 a year plus expensive scans and biopsies for…
A Woman Is Cured of H.I.V. Using a Novel Treatment
A bone marrow transplant is not a realistic option for most patients. Such transplants are highly invasive and risky, so…
A Gene Sequencing Pioneer Battles Over What It Can Buy
Illumina, the leading maker of gene-sequencing machines, is tiny compared with the tech giants of Silicon Valley. But like Google…
These Prenatal Tests Are Usually Wrong When Warning of Rare Disorders
A big market for rare conditionsBetween 2011 and 2013, a small Silicon Valley-based biotech company, Sequenom, tripled in size. The…