Gluco…Wha? Parkinson’s Disease and Glucocerebrosidase mutations.

In 2007 I diagnosed a 74 year old woman with CF.
She had a positive sweat test and positive mutation with an intronic mutation as well.
I investigated this after she had bronchiectasis and no history of smoking. And a grandson with CF……… Why did I do the sweat test?I needed to know if [...]

Not Waving but Drowning

OK, so now I owe you two apologies. The first is for the title of this post (which I’m assuming has been done to death in the last month). The other is for writing about Google Wave, because either you don’t yet have a Google Wave account and you’re fed up with hearing about [...]

Shurely shome mishtake?

While I support Harvey Watson’s Campus Cops iniative on Facebook, surely this is going a bit far?

Patient Modesty: Volume 26

The issue of patient modesty and healthcare provider gender selection and provision is as most of my followers of this topic know a multifaceted complex issue. We can’t learn enough about the topic simply by reading the comments of those patients who have found the issue affecting them personally and medically burdensome. We needed [...]

New PubMed Interface Demonstration Video

Nature Review Cancer contents November Volume 9 Number 11 pp 763-842

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Did you get your kit? Thanks Dr. Rob from MedCo

I love and hate when GenomeWeb scoops me. I love it because I know someone else is out there assessing the field. But the competitive nature in me hates to be scooped……ah well, you can’t win them all.
It turns out that Good ‘Ol Dr. Rob and I agree, physician education is the key to get [...]

Twittering the student experience

Alan Cann, Jo Badge, Stuart Johnson, Alex Moseley. Twittering the student experience. ALT-N, Vol. 17, October 2009.

Relative Finder Beta is open to all 23andMe users

Here are the instructions to join the Relative Finder Beta.
1) Log in to your account and go to www.23andme.com/you/relfinder/
2) Check the box to Highlight your profile in Relative Finder and join the Public Beta.
3) Once you’ve joined, you will see all of your potential relatives, but you can only contact other relatives who are [...]

Nature Reports Stem Cells Contents: October 22 2009

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