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Human Development Is Set By Ongoing Interplay Of Parent And Offspring Genes, Analysis Suggests
An analysis of rare genetic disorders in which children lack some genes from one parent suggests that maternal and paternal genes engage in a subtle tug-of-war well into childhood, and possibly as late as the onset of puberty.
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Individual Health Insurance Market Failing Consumers According To New Report
The individual health insurance market is not a viable option for the majority of uninsured adults, a new report from The Commonwealth Fund finds. Seventy-three percent of people who tried to buy insurance on their own in the last three years did not purchase a policy, primarily because premiums were too high. In addition, among adults with individual coverage or who tried to buy coverage in the past three years, 57 percent said it was very difficult or impossible to find coverage they could afford, 47 percent said it was very difficult or impossible to find a plan with the coverage they needed, and 36 percent were denied coverage or charged more because of a pre-existing condition, or had the condition excluded from their coverage.
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New Results In Fight Against Blindness Revealed
The CARMA Study Group, representing leading researchers at Queens University, Belfast and the Waterford Institute of Technology will unveil the results of a 5 year project into age-related macular degeneration (AMD) on Friday, 19th June at 2pm in the Radisson Hotel, Belfast. AMD is the leading cause of blindness in the Western world*1.
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The Beneficial Effects Of Pregnancy And Childbearing On Arthritic Conditions May Be More Long-Term Than Previously Understood

Nulliparous women (those who have not given birth to children) are diagnosed with chronic arthritides (including ankylosing spondylitis, psoriatic arthritis and rheumatoid arthritis (RA) an average of 5.2 years before parous women (those who have given birth to children), according to a new study presented at EULAR 2009, the Annual Congress of the European League Against Rheumatism in Copenhagen, Denmark. Previous studies have highlighted that pregnancy may be a protective factor against the development of RA, whereas this is the first study to assess the effect of pregnancy and having children on the development of chronic arthritic conditions in premenopausal women. Within the study, the mean age at time of diagnosis for nulliparous women was 26 years, compared with 31.2 years for parous women (p


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