The News Review:
- Ten Genes Associated With A Risk Factor For Sudden Cardiac Death …
- Raw: Triple H and Undertaker get tastes of their own medicine
- Deputy Science Editor
- Sex: the Natural Medicine
Ten Genes Associated With A Risk Factor For Sudden Cardiac Death …
Science Daily (press release)
— until it proved lethal — is characteristic of sudden cardiac death which annually claims more than a quarter million Americans. A dearth of discernable symptoms and lack of detectable molecules circulating in the blood makes the prediction of sudden cardiac death largely dependent on genetic risk factors. Having identified 10 common variants of genes that modify the timing of the contraction of the heart known as the QT interval scientists in the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in collaboration with an international contingent of researchers now provide new insight about the underpinnings of the QT interval which when prolonged or shortened predisposes to sudden cardiac death. QT interval which is determined from a standard electrocardiogram (ECG) reflects the time it takes for the heart (ventricles) to contract and then reset for the next heartbeat. Publishing March 22 in Nature Genetics the international team including researchers from the Technical University in Munich Johns Hopkins and others used DNA samples previously collected for epidemiological studies to analyze the genomes of 15842 individuals whose QT intervals had been measured by electrocardiogram. With DNA microarray chips each able to assess hundreds of thousands of markers in each sample followed by bioinformatic techniques to increase the number of markers the researchers screened approximately 2. 5 million markers to detect subtle alterations in the sequences of these genomes that modify the QT interval.
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Raw: Triple H and Undertaker get tastes of their own medicine
SLAM! Sports
There’s no stopping the superstars on collision courses with each other now as the fans in Kansas City are about to find out. It’s not anyone in one of the big matches in Houston but the Nature Boy Ric Flair who comes to the ring to start the show. n behalf of fellow legends Jimmy Snuka Ricky Steamboat and Roddy Piper Flair accepts Chris Jericho’s challenge for a handicap match at WrestleMania. Jericho has more to say about that speaking first on the TitanTron as he makes his way toward the ring. Chris says he knew the legends would accept because they’re scared they will be forgotten. But Jericho says it’s better to be forgotten than to tarnish your own legacy for one last desperate grab at glory and he promises a disturbing and uncomfortable beating of Flair’s friends.
Deputy Science Editor
New York Times
Before joining The Times she was senior editor at Newsday business editor and deputy city editor. Previously she worked as a reporter for 18 years covering everything from City Hall and cops to medicine and space shuttle missions at newspapers in New York Boston and Houston. She was graduated from the University of California at Berkeley and is the author of “The Primal Teen” a book about the teenage brain and is writing another book on the middle-aged brain. ther Times staff members have answered questions in this column including Executive Editor Bill Keller Managing Editor Jill Abramson Managing Editor John Geddes Assistant Managing Editor Richard L. Berke Assistant Managing Editor Glenn Kramon Associate Managing Editor Charles Strum bituaries Editor Bill McDonald Metropolitan Editor Joe Sexton Living Editor Trish Hall Investigations Editor Matthew Purdy National Editor Suzanne Daley Sports Editor Tom Jolly and Culture Editor Sam Sifton. Their responses and those of other Times staff members are available on the.
Sex: the Natural Medicine
Examiner.com
At least he was well enough to be horny. ) n the second morning of my illness he woke me up to give me some medicine. And how did he gently disturb my slumber? By climbing into bed with me and giving me a truly magnificent back-rub. (Did I already say God bless him?) Well somehow he got turned on despite the fact that I was coughing and hacking all over the place; he snuggled up to spoon me and I felt his “hello” poking into my back.
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