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Madely Health Headlines Commentary for April 15, 2013

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New Technique Holds Promise For The Treatment Of Multiple Sclerosis And Cerebral Palsy

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Transcription factor–mediated reprogramming of fibroblasts to expandable, myelinogenic oligodendrocyte progenitor cells

Madely Health Headlines Commentary for March 27, 2013

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Scientists find new gene markers for cancer risk

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Turning of COGS moves forward findings for hormonally mediated cancers

Madely Health Headlines Commentary for March 22, 2013

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BP Control May Help Slow Alzheimer’s

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Rodrigue KM, et al “Risk factors for β-amyloid deposition in healthy aging: Vascular and genetic effects” JAMA Neurol 2013; DOI: 10.1001/jamaneurol.2013.1342.

Madely Health Headlines Commentary for February 25, 2013

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Reprogramming Alpha Cells To Fight Diabetes

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“Epigenomic plasticity enables human pancreatic α to β cell reprogramming”

Madely Health Headlines Commentary for December 7, 2012

A brief rebuttal to Dr. Robert Robert’s of the University of Ottawa Heart Institute claim that this generation of children will live to 120 and their children will live to 140.

Madely Health Headlines Commentary for November 21, 2012

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Obesity gene linked with lower risk of depression: Study

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“The protective effect of the obesity-associated rs9939609 A variant in fat mass- and obesity-associated gene on depression”

Madely Health Headlines Commentary for November 16, 2012

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When You Eat Is Just As Crucial As What You Eat

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Obesity in mice with adipocyte-specific deletion of clock component Arntl

Madely Health Headlines Commentary for September 24, 2012

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Breast cancer study finds four distinct genetic types

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Comprehensive molecular portraits of human breast tumours 

Madely Health Headlines Commentary for September 17, 2012

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Animal Study Offers Prospect of Autism Treatment

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Shared Synaptic Pathophysiology in Syndromic and Nonsyndromic Rodent Models of Autism

Madely Health Headlines Commentary for May 3, 2012

 

 

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Gene Therapy Safe in Decade-Long HIV Study That May Widen Use

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Decade-Long Safety and Function of Retroviral-Modified Chimeric Antigen Receptor T Cells

Madely Health Headlines Commentary for September 27, 2011

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Vitamin B12 deficiency may lead to cognitive problems

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Tangney CC, et al “Vitamin B12, cognition, and brain MRI measures: A cross-sectional examination” Neurology 2011; 77: 1276–1282.

Madely Health Headlines Commentary for July 18, 2011

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Gene splicing breakthrough gives hope to cystic fibrosis sufferers

 

Madely Health Headlines Commentary for April 5, 2011

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New Alzheimer’s genes identified

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Common variants at MS4A4/MS4A6ECD2APCD33 and EPHA1 are associated with late-onset Alzheimer’s disease

Madely Health Headlines Commentary for March 21, 2011

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Broccoli every day may keep cancer away, study says

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Epigenetic targets of bioactive dietary components for cancer prevention and therapy

Madely Health Headlines Commentary for March 7, 2011

Source: Doctors discover 13 genes behind heart disease    

Madely Health Headlines Commentary for February 9 , 2011

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How Canadian researchers hope to delay onset of Alzheimer’s

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The Brain-Derived Neurotrophic Factor Val66Met Polymorphism and Prediction of Neural Risk for Alzheimer Disease

Madely Health Headlines Commentary for September 28, 2010

Source: Cancer experts weigh future of targeted therapies

Madely Health Headlines Commentary for September 1 , 2010

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Preventive cancer surgeries save women’s lives: study

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Association of Risk-Reducing Surgery in BRCA1 or BRCA2 Mutation Carriers With Cancer Risk and Mortality

Madely Health Headlines Commentary for August 25, 2010

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Genetic effects of vitamin D studied

Madely Health Headlines Commentary for August 16, 2010

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Immune genes ‘key in Parkinson’s disease’

Madely Health Headlines Commentary for August 11, 2010

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Cancer breakthrough for Vancouver researchers

Madely Health Headlines Commentary for June 3, 2010

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New Tests for Prostate Cancer Might Bring More Certainty

Madely Health Headlines Commentary for May 31, 2010

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Bristol-Myers Melanoma Drug Unleashes Immune System

Madely Health Headlines Commentary for January 22, 2010

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Identification of the gene responsible for a new form of adult muscular dystrophy

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Recessive Mutations in the Putative Calcium-Activated Chloride Channel Anoctamin 5 Cause Proximal LGMD2L and Distal MMD3 Muscular Dystrophies

Madely Health Headlines Commentary for December 21, 2009

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Full Genetics of Cancer Mapped