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Genetic Medicine Making Inroads Against Disease

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By Amanda Gardner
EmpowHer's HealthDay Reporter

TUESDAY, March 18 (HealthDay News) -- In fields as varied as heart disease, bone health and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), an explosion of knowledge in genetics is poised to revolutionize medicine, said scientists gathered at a special news conference Tuesday.


     
     
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Metabolic Syndrome: Know Your Numbers!

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For the younger women among us, who may not be concerned about heart disease in our near future, but know we should generally eat right and exercise, I wanted to mention a condition that may occur before a diagnosis of cardiovascular disease, which is Metabolic Syndrome. (oh---and just because you are “young” does not mean you do not have risk factors for heart disease! Just read egreene’s personal story with heart disease on her blog entries on the EmpowHer site).

     
     
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Ailing Hearts Hard on Spouses

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(LifeWire) -- Forty-five-year-old Mary Pakusch doesn't remember what happened in the minutes and hours after she went into sudden cardiac arrest at home on July 15, 2006. Her husband Paul does. Mostly, he remembers how scared he was. "She was living a perfectly normal life," says Paul, 47, who works at a Rochester, New York, television station. * to
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