OTTAWA The Ottawa Hospital is looking to gain a foothold in the fast-growing field of personalized medicine, which involves using gene sequencing to help doctors predict which drugs would work best for a particular patient. The hospital has drawn up plans to set up a molecular diagnostics lab with the technology to decode hundreds of genes, or even the entire genomes of patients, which could yield new approaches for treating cancer and other serious diseases. Details of the plan are still being worked out, and no funding has yet been committed to the project Continue reading →