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• What’s In Your Genes: Do You Really Want To Know?

  
  Better Health — Authority: 603
  A little over two years ago, I confessed that I was “ just a little scared of genetic testing .” I have two young children and almost every day I see traits in them that I’m pretty sure they inherited from me whether via genes or behavior. If you’re a parent, I’m sure you can imagine that there’s a lot of ...
  14 hours ago

• Research results key for understanding, interpreting genetic testing for Lonq QT Syndrome, other genetic diseases

  
  Mayo Clinic News — Authority: 415
  Results of a Long QT Syndrome study in the current issue of Circulation play an important role in understanding genetic testing’s role in diagnosing disease, according to the senior author, Michael Ackerman, M.D., Ph.D., the Mayo Clinic pediatric cardiologist who directs Mayo’s Long QT Syndrome Clinic and is the ...
  6 days ago

• Gene therapy. “Children who were treated with gene therapy are now able to walk and play just like any normally sighted child …”

  
  LASIK Eye Surgery — Authority: 133
  Twelve patients have received gene therapy utilizing a surgical procedure performed by Albert M Maguire MD, University of Pennsylvania Associate Professor of Ophthalmology. According to a Release from University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine: “After the first group of three young adults was treated safely, ...
  2 weeks ago

• Curse in Verse – The Sibling

  
  Authspot — Authority: 513
  The Sibling   Both have grown up, to live with HD, Their grandpa and aunty affected. They know that their dad is at risk as well, But attempts to discuss are rejected.   One sibling is eager to know of her fate, The other is keen to ignore. One feels that a family and children can wait, But the other is ...
  2 weeks ago

• Healthy diet, regular exercise can override bad genes

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 726
  Ottawa, October 26 (ANI): Simple lifestyle choices, such as following a healthy diet and regular exercise, can override bad genes, according to one of Canada’s leading genetic researchers.Robert Hegele, director of the cardiovascular genetics laboratory at the Robarts Research Institute in London, Ontario, linked ...
  2 weeks ago

• The genetic component of Alzheimer’s disease identified

  
  dementia views you can use — Authority: 425
  Here is a great dementia resource for caregivers and healthcare professinals, Here is information on being the best caregiver you can be Here are more interesting dementia brain boosting activities Destination Sante A Franco-European research team has identified two factors associated with genetic ...
  2 weeks ago

• Personalized Medicine Exposes a Gap in Medical Education

  
  ScienceRoll — Authority: 427
  Do you remember the report focusing on how young physicians at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center test their own DNA in search of genes linked to various illnesses? I’ve now just come across a great article in PLoS Medicine about how the dawning era of personalized medicine exposes a gap in medical education . ...
  2 weeks ago

• Genetic testing for disease heredity gains favor

  
  dementia views you can use — Authority: 425
  Here is a great dementia resource for caregivers and healthcare professinals, Here is information on being the best caregiver you can be Here are more interesting dementia brain boosting activities detnews.com Kim Kozlowski / The Detroit News The sequencing of the human genome has revolutionized scientists ...
  2 weeks ago

• Premature Heart Disease Common in Indians and South Asians

  
  Healthy Hearts with Heartstrong — Authority: 462
  Heart disease is the number one killer of men and women in the United States.  The prevalence of heart disease varies among ethnic groups.  Immigrants from India (South Asia) have a four times greater risk of developing heart disease than other Americans.  Indians are also more likely to develop premature heart ...
  2 weeks ago

• Are Commercial Genetic Tests Worth Taking?

  
  Alzheimer's Reading Room — Authority: 504
  By Bob DeMarco Alzheimers Reading Room Editor ...droves of people are flocking to get genetic tests -- which are now marketed direct-to-consumer -- ranging from the $179 CaffeineGen to assess caffeine metabolism to those that claim to gauge risk for Alzheimers disease. Theres also a $79 HomeDNA Home Paternity ...
  3 weeks ago

• Go Sharks & some good Kharma....

  
  ShoppingKharma: What comes around goes around — Authority: 113
  Well I had my meeting with my doctor as planned and talked over my options and paperwork from the Clearity Foundation . He looked up one of the websites and was a little irritated at one of the founders who apparently is making a fortune on these genetic tests; but if they really work to help more women survive this ...
  3 weeks ago

• A Melanoma Gene?

  
  The Assertive Cancer Patient — Authority: 430
  Ive had melanoma, only once, and it was very thin, so I tend to forget about my melanoma ... compared to metastatic breast cancer, it was just a little blip on my radar.   But I do find that melanoma news catches my eye, as did this story about a melanoma GENE, because it was the first I had heard of it.  ...
  4 weeks ago

• Antiplatelet drug with on-off switch

  
  Medical Search Tips, News, and Information for Healthcare Professionals — Authority: 118
  An investigational treatment for acute coronary syndrome that reduces major cardiovascular events more effectively and quickly than available drugs without increasing overall bleeding was announced at the European Society of Cardiology meeting. Its antiplatelet effects are readily reversible. Someone found news ...
  7 weeks ago

• 23andMe to offer discounted genome scans to clinicians to boost genomic literacy

  
  Genetic Future — Authority: 527
  Mark Hendersons  interview with Anne Wojcicki , co-founder of personal genomics company 23andMe , is well worth a read. The big story is this: Wojcicki has floated the possibility of offering discounted genome scans to clinicians "to teach them to interpret genomic information that is now readily available to their ...
  7 weeks ago

• Guest post: what happens when a personal genomics company goes bankrupt (part 2)

  
  Genetic Future — Authority: 527
  In the second of three guest posts, lawyers Daniel Vorhaus and Lawrence Moore  of the superb blog Genomics Law Report discuss the implications for personal genomics customers if their provider goes bankrupt. In part one of the series (posted yesterday), Vorhaus and Moore dissected the ...
  7 weeks ago

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