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Personalized medical treatment taking first steps at Ottawa Heart Institute
Madely Health Headlines Commentary for March , 2012 [display_podcast] Source: Study results give patient care boost
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Barcode of Life
Original broadcast date: March 22, 2009 Are you getting what you ordered when dining in a restaurant that serves seafood? This is important on many levels, from honest business practices to endangered or protected species preservation to managing allergy risks. How can inspectors, and by extension the public, learn about the true source of their…
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The genetic switch for Friedreich's Ataxia
Genetic research continues to broaden our understanding of the mechanism or pathophysiology of diseases. Reports seem to present themselves daily about new avenues for treatments of once incurable or uncontrollable illnesses. A team from the Scripps Research Institute and the University of California School of Medicine has developed compounds that reactivate the gene responsible for…
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Science Fiction is Becoming Science Fact
If your doctor offered the option of a blood test to determine what diseases your child will develop in their lifetime, what would you do? This option is soon to be a reality.