New MTHFR Gene Test Extends Holistic Pharmacogenomics Approach to …

New MTHFR Gene Test Extends Holistic Pharmacogenomics Approach to …
MTHFR will be the fourth GeneSight test, joining other GeneSight tests already available for patients diagnosed with depression, anxiety, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, ADHD and chronic pain. Like the other GeneSight tests, GeneSight MTHFR uses a … Read more on PR Newswire (press release)

No hot flashes? Then don't count on hormones to improve quality of life
Hormones at menopause can help with sleep, memory, and more, but only when a woman also has hot flashes, find researchers at Helsinki University in Finland. Their study was published online today in Menopause, the journal of The North American … Read more on Medical Xpress

The Future of Feces
Locally, Kaiser Permanente's Walnut Creek and Antioch Medical Centers have been treating C. diff patients with fecal transplants for the past year. Stanford Hospital and UCSF will also soon offer the treatment. … In a story published last year by the … Read more on East Bay Express

New drugs promise cure for hepatitis C
Patients taking the medication could die from infection or face depression so severe they committed suicide. An alternative was to get a … He was not a candidate for the earlier drugs because of other medical problems. He got a liver transplant in 2005. Read more on WSFA