The Greatest Medical Resource You've Never Heard Of: Rochester Epidemiology Project
Monday, December 10, 2012 - 12:01
in Health & Medicine
It's the medical resource behind discoveries that have affected patients around the globe, treasured by researchers and funded by the National Institutes of Health for nearly 50 years: the Rochester Epidemiology Project. This comprehensive medical records pool makes Olmsted County, Minn., one of the few places in the world where scientists can study virtually an entire geographic population to identify trends in disease, evaluate treatments and find factors that put people at risk for illness -- or protect them.