Researchers from Children’s Hospital Boston and Brigham and Women’s Hospital have identified an important genetic cause of a devastating kidney disease that is the second leading cause of kidney failure in children, according to The NephCure Foundation.

Breast cancer therapy that’s customized for each patient’s personal genetic makeup is one step closer to reality, thanks to a new use for crime-lab technology pioneered at Roswell Park Cancer Institute (RPCI). A team led by Petr Starostik, MD, chief of RPCI’s Clinical Molecular Diagnostics lab, is using CSI-type methods to multiply the reliability of [...]

Cancer and its treatment causes discomfort on many levels, but controlling pain can speed recovery for children battling the disease, say pain management experts at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital.