Health
A Fred Hutch Spinoff Is Pioneering a Way to Personalize Cancer Therapy
No two cancers are the same.
This article appears in print in the February 2018 issue. Click here for a free subscription. Doctors have found that sequencing the DNA of a patients cancer can help identify which cancer drugs are likely to be effective, helping to avoid multiple treatments. But this approach works only about 10 percent of the time. SEngine,…
Washington Is the 9th Healthiest State
The number of smokers and uninsured residents in Washington state decreased significantly over the last five years.
Washington is one of the ten healthiest states in America, according to a new ranking from the United Health Foundation. The state of Washington ranks 9th overall among the state ranking, behind only Massachussets (1), Hawaii (2), Vermont (3), Utah (4), Connecticut (5), Minnesota (6), Colorado (7) and New Hampshire (8). Washington state is down…