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Our individual genetic makeups drive how we respond to a COVID infection
A striking characteristic of COVID‑19 is that the severity of clinical outcomes is remarkably variable. Establishing a prognosis for individuals ...
BRCA blood test: Simple blood sample can identify breast cancer developing up to two years before a formal diagnosis
A new blood test developed by Dutch researchers can identify changes in serum proteins that signal the onset of breast ...
What’s the best time of day to exercise?
Performing moderate to vigorous activity (MVPA) in the afternoon or evening may improve blood glucose control to a greater extent ...
What happens if a nurse spreads fake COVID facts — and what counts as misinformation?
During the COVID-19 pandemic, many healthcare membership associations and organizations took a stance on the spread of misinformation by licensed ...
How might COVID evolve this fall? Here are 3 possible scenarios, and none is great
As the United States enters a third fall with COVID-19, the virus for many is seemingly gone — or at ...
Rethink your daily multivitamin: Most vitamin supplements likely useless at preventing cancer or strokes
There is not enough evidence to recommend for or against taking most vitamin and mineral supplements to prevent heart disease, ...
What’s the likelihood of developing universal broad spectrum coronavirus vaccine?
Individual researchers from eclectic fields are finding new ways to prevent future pandemics. Artem Babaian, PhD, a computational biologist at ...
Tinnitus and COVID vaccines: Cases grow prompting calls for more research
It's now known that tinnitus may be an unexpected side effect of SARS-CoV-2 vaccination, and there is an urgent need ...
What will Covid look like in the years ahead? Young children could be most vulnerable to new variants
Researchers predict SARS-CoV-2 could become endemic and primarily infect children, thereby shifting risk from older people to toddlers too young ...
50% of COVID sufferers report damaged sense of smell 5 months after recovery
More than 50% of healthcare workers infected with SARS-CoV-2 report that their sense of smell has not returned to normal ...
Variants on top of variants: COVID continues to mutate in Brazil, posing more perils to country already crushed by the pandemic
The unchecked spread of the more contagious SARS-CoV-2 variants in Brazil appears to have created even more dangerous versions of ...
Depression and anxiety linked to early onset of Alzheimer’s
Investigators found the age of onset of AD is about 2 years earlier among patients with depression and 3 years ...
Cancer dates back millions of years. Now we are cracking its evolutionary code
Cancer cells are on a continual evolutionary journey of mutation and proliferation, creating a genetically diverse population with a range ...
Can a baby get cancer from a mom’s cervical tumor?
[Japanese] investigators describe lung cancer in two boys that "probably developed" from their respective mothers via vaginal transmission during birth ...
Single-dose COVID vaccine by Johnson & Johnson/Janssen up next for approval
Among the multiple vaccine candidates around the globe, next up in the arsenal against COVID-19 is likely the single-dose Ad26.COV2.S ...
US appears ill-prepared to support COVID vaccine rollout
In a four-page memo this summer, the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention told health departments across the country to draft ...
90 quack COVID cures and counting: Dr. Joe Mercola added to FDA list of fraudsters promoting bogus cures
[T]he FDA has issued more than 90 warning letters about fraudulent products claiming to prevent or cure the disease. While the bulk ...
‘Really tough decision’: What should doctors do when genetic testing reveals that dad isn’t the child’s biological father?
The child was critically ill. The treating team at Children's National Hospital in Washington, DC, was stumped and worried that ...
DNA sequencing of pap smears non-invasive alternative to prenatal genetic screening
Targeted DNA sequencing of fetal cells from Papanicolaou (Pap) smears may offer an improved and earlier route to prenatal genetic ...
Should doctors inform patients if they have untreatable genetic diseases?
Ethical considerations related to consent, privacy, and confidentiality have been upended by genetic testing, according to members of a panel...at ...
First major contract in Obama’s Precision Medicine Initiative signed with Mayo Clinic
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The first major contract ...
Personal genomic testing presents challenges for doctors and patients
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Marketing of direct-to-consumer (DTC) ...
Art Caplan: Food industry should adopt voluntary GMO labels
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. I'm Art Caplan at ...
Can lab grown tissues help test drugs for rare diseases?
Marshall L. Summar, MD: I am Marshall Summar, Chief of Genetics and Metabolism at Children's National Medical Center in Washington, ...
Hispanics have higher risk for metabolic syndrome, but risk factors differ by ethnic origin
An ongoing federally funded study of the health of Hispanics in the United States is yielding nuanced and complex data, ...
Impacts of genetic analysis and patient advocacy for extremely rare diseases
Marshall L. Summar, MD, Chief of the Division of Genetics and Metabolism at Children's National Medical Center in Washington, DC, ...
Gene mutation linked to irritable bowel syndrome in some patients
Approximately 2% of patients with irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) have a mutation of the SCN5A gene that disrupts sodium channel ...
Patient cracks her own mysterious diagnosis by studying her genetics
Kim Goodsell started noticing physical ailments about 20 years ago, when she was in her 30s and training for an ...