Death in Dallas: One family’s experience in the Medicaid gap

For years, Millicent McKinnon of Dallas went without health insurance. She was one of roughly 1 million Texans who earn too much to qualify for Medicaid in the state but too little to buy their own insurance. That is, until she died in 2019. She was 64 and had been unable to find consistent care […]

The Future of Precision Medicine

Precision medicine aims to create specialized treatment regimens that are tailored to each individual’s unique genetics, environment, and lifestyle. What is precision medicine? By definition, precision medicine, which is often also referred to as personalized medicine, is the medical approach to understanding how an individual’s genetics, environment, and lifestyle can be used to determine the […]