Medical DNA-in-the-News

(KCRA) -- A man who drove for a medical transportation company was sentenced to life in prison Friday in the killing and raping of a 64-year-old grandmother who lived in a Folsom senior-living apartment. Sylvester Griffin stood trail for the 2009 ...
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May 18 (Bloomberg) -- Brian McNamee, the government's only eyewitness to Roger Clemens's alleged drug use, said that some of the medical waste he preserved from injections he gave Clemens was mixed with needles used on other baseball players.
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Police found his DNA on a cigarette butt and matched it to seman found at the crime scene. It's evidence the defense has tried multiple times to throw out after they questioned the method in which the evidence was gathered, saying police followed ...
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The second effort, led by Matthew Nelson and Vincent Mooser of London-based drugmaker GlaxoSmithKline Plc (GSK), targeted DNA that was already considered to have potential for medical development. The findings highlight issues involved in the trend ...
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One-letter switches in the DNA code occur much more frequently in human genomes than anticipated, but are often only found in one or a few individuals.
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By investigating the existence of an unusual four-stranded structure of DNA in human cells, scientists have opened the door to novel cancer therapeutics and a new era for personalised medicine. When Watson and Crick discovered the double helix ...
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Soprrento Mesa-based Ichor Medical Systems won for its TriGrid-ID device. TriGrid delivers DNA into cells through electroporation, the application of brief electrical impulses that cause the pores of cells to open, allowing DNA and drugs to pass the ...
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The task of finding the genetic roots of common disease seems a whole lot harder, dimming the promise of personal genomics and the chances of quick medical payoffs from the human genome project, given new data about the human genome in two reports ...
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Now, researchers at Weill Cornell Medical College have made a discovery that once again forces us to rewrite our textbooks. This time, however, the findings pertain to RNA, which like DNA carries information about our genes and how they are expressed.
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The abundance of rare variations across the human genome is consistent with the population explosion of the past few thousand years, medical geneticists and evolutionary biologists report in the May 17 advanced online edition of Science.
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In particular, stress has been shown to depress the immune system, increase inflammation and affect our bodies on the molecular level, even damaging DNA. In a recent lecture in Phoenix, AZ at the American Academy of Anti-Aging Medicine (A4M) Fellowship ...
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Cloud-based research technology launched by Dell last year for the Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen) is gearing up for what's billed as the world’s first precision medicine clinical trial for pediatric cancer. read more

Federal officials will soon consider a plan to set aside broadband spectrum for wireless healthcare monitoring devices, opening the door to more and better uses both inside and outside the hospital setting. read more

States must provide details to the federal government by Nov. 16 – just 10 days after the presidential election – on how they will run online insurance marketplaces, according to guidance released May 16. Those that don’t meet the deadline – or that can’t operate their own marketplaces, called exchanges  – will have it done for them by the federal government, starting in January 2014.
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InterSystems has launched the next generation of its InterSystems HealthShare, a strategic informatics platform for interoperability and active analytics. Designed originally for public HIEs, officials say the technology has been extended and rearchitected for use by integrated delivery networks (IDNs). read more

The American Medical Association (AMA) has asked the federal government to delay the implementation deadline for ICD-10 from Oct. 1, 2013, until Oct. 1, 2015, "at a minimum." read more

At the Connecting Healthcare + Social Media Conference, Lee Aase, director of the Mayo Clinic Center for Social Media, and Farris Timimi, Medical Director for the Mayo Clinic Center for Social Media, shared stories and expertise on the ways social media can impact the moral imperative of healthcare. read more

The states of Illinois, Nevada, Oregon, South Dakota, Tennessee and Washington will receive $181 million in grants from the Health and Human Services Department to help them establish health insurance exchanges. read more

Health Level Seven International (HL7) announced Wednesday the inception of its pilot membership program and launched a website aimed at increasing caregivers’ participation in the development of electronic health record (EHR) standards. read more

Allscripts on Wedenesday, named two independent members to its board of directors. The board had been left decimated last month after its chairman Phil Pead was fired and three board members resigned in protest after a turbulent quarterly meeting. Allscripts moved quickly to name a new board chairman – Dennis Chookaszian, a member of Allscripts' board since September 2010, formerly chairman and CEO of CNA Financial Corporation. read more

By the end of 2011, 58 percent of office-based physicians were using e-prescribing, with solo practitioners contributing the most significant growth, according to Surescripts, which released today “The National Progress Report on E-Prescribing and Interoperable Healthcare Year 2011.” Included in the report is data analysis that documents the prevalence of e-prescribing adoption and use in the United States from 2008 through 2011. read more

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