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    NIH opens nationwide enrollment for huge precision medicine initiative

    The NIH's massive precision medicine initiative that aims to compile detailed health profiles of 1 million Americans is being rolled out at last.
    by Lev Facher May 01, 2018 2 minutes
    A research technician at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center prepares to collect a blood sample from a participant in the "All of Us" research program.

    WASHINGTON — A massive precision medicine initiative that has been years in the making from the National Institutes of Health is being rolled out at last.

    The All of Us initiative, which will be launched on May 6, aims to compile detailed health profiles of 1 million Americans, with a special focus on communities historically underrepresented in biomedical research.

    The program, which

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