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  • Inaugural World Ovarian Cancer Day: “World Embrace” to Learn, Educate, Fight & Inspire


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    May 8th, 2013, is the first World Ovarian Cancer Day. On this day, 26 ovarian cancer organizations from 17 countries around the world will unite to educate their communities about ovarian cancer and its symptoms. For women living with the disease, and their families and friends, World Ovarian Cancer Day will build a ...
    1 week ago
  • Geneticists Find Causes for Severe Childhood Epilepsies


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    Researchers at the University of Arizona have successfully determined the genetic mutations causing severe epilepsies in seven out of 10 children for whom the cause of the disorder could not be determined clinically or by conventional genetic testing. Instead of sequencing each gene one at a time, the team used a ...
    2 weeks ago
  • Give LBBC Your Feedback About Peggy Orenstein’s New York Times Article, “Our Feel-Good War on Cancer”


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    By Jean A. Sachs, MSS, MLSP , Living Beyond Breast Cancer’s chief executive officer   Journalist Peggy Orenstein ignited a debate when she explored the limits of mammography screening and the dangers of overtreatment for breast cancer in her New York Times Magazine article, “ Our Feel-Good War on Cancer ...
    2 weeks ago
  • DNA Sequencing Lab-On-A-Chip Opens The Door To Personalized Medicine


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    Personalized Medicine  The Belgian research agency, IMEC, along with Panasonic have developed a DNA testing chip delivers results in one hour, paving the way for personalized drug treatments in... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
    2 weeks ago
  • Why We Didnt Get Tested


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    While the special needs of our sons are different, we share a lot in common with the author of this article concerning why we chose NOT to have prenatal genetic testing. Im not sure Ive written much about our choices publicly before. At the time, the emotions were very raw and I was tired of being judged. But its ...
    2 weeks ago
  • Incidental Findings from Genome Sequencing – Nuances and Caveats


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    You have your genome or exome (the protein-encoding part) sequenced to help diagnose a puzzling set of symptoms, and something totally unrelated, and unexpected, turns up – a so-called “incidental finding.” Surprises, of course, aren’t new in medicine. The term “incidental finding” comes from ...
    4 weeks ago
  • The 10th anniversary of the mapping of the human genome


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    By Robert Klitzman “It’s like Star Wars,” a woman with the Huntington Disease mutation recently told me. This lethal gene had killed her relatives in every generation for hundreds of years, but she could now test her embryos to ensure that her children did not get it. “I don’t understand it all,” she ...
    5 weeks ago
  • Must Your Doctor Tell You All the Results of a Gene Test?


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    Doctors are now discussing how to respond to "incidental findings" in genetic tests — unexpected data that could be relevant to a different condition than the one tested for. Should they tell? Even if nothing can be done? Even if the patient is a child, and the condition wont appear till much later in life? read ...
    5 weeks ago

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