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Community Health Leader Helps Aging American Indians Access Nursing Care Frances Stout, R.N., helped build the first nursing home on the Tohono O'odham Reservation in southwestern Arizona... and then came out of retirement to run it. | Grantee profiles | 10/29/2009 |
Kaiser Permanente "Biobank" Receives $25-Million Grant from National Institutes of Health NIH awarded the Kaiser Permanente Research Program on Genes, Environment and Health and the University of California, San Francisco Institute for Human Genetics a $24.8-million grant to conduct an expansive genotyping project. | News releases | 10/12/2009 |
The Pioneer Portfolio has awarded $8.6 million to develop a biobank to help reveal environmental and genetic factors behind diseases. | News releases | 12/17/2008 |
Pharmacogenomics is the study of how inherited variations in genes dictate a person's reaction to a drug. In this 2004 to 2005 project, researchers examined how pharmacogenomics fits within the current health care market. | Grant Results Reports | 07/31/2008 |
Ninety-Minute Video Educates Health Professional on the Role of Race and Genetics in Health Care The National Coalition for Health Professional Education in Genetics produced and disseminated a 90-minute television program to educate health care professionals about the role of race and genetics in health care. | Grant Results Reports | 03/27/2008 |
Grant Results Topic Summary: Genetics Since 1991, RWJF has funded 32 grants and contracts totaling about $7 million for projects related to genetics, genetic technologies and genetic services. | Grant Results special reports, Grant Results topic summaries | 04/17/2006 |
Online CME Program Integrates Genetics Into Primary Care Practices The March of Dimes Birth Defects Foundation designed, launched and evaluated Genetics & Your Practice Online, an information and continuing education program to help health professionals integrate genetics into their practices. | Grant Results Reports | 12/30/2005 |
Public Opinion Survey Finds Racial and Ethnic Differences Regarding Genetic Testing The University of Michigan Institute for Social Research conducted a national survey on Americans' knowledge, attitudes, values and behavior regarding genetic testing and compared results to public opinion surveys from 1990. | Grant Results Reports | 10/26/2005 |
Researchers Generate Reports and Online Info on Ethical and Legal Issues of Genetics The Institute for the Future assessed health care decision-makers' knowledge about new discoveries in genetics and developed two proposals for a major educational initiative to inform health care leaders about the new discoveries. | Grant Results Reports | 07/15/2005 |
The authors investigated if race was a factor in whether women with a family history of breast or ovarian cancer received counseling concerning availability of genetic testing for BRCA 1/2 mutations. Mutations in BRCA1 or BRCA2 confer a significant risk for... Published In: Journal of the American Medical Association | Reports | 04/13/2005 |