News: 2006
January
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Genetic Fix for Sickle Cell Disease?
SciDev.Net, 6 January 2006 -
Stroke Risk Returns When Children With Sickle Cell Disease Stop Transfusions
SCIENCE DAILY, 4 January 2006 -
New drive to fight blood disease
Gulf Daily News, 7 January 2006 -
Millions of birth defects in poor nations 'preventable'
SciDevNet, 31 January 2006
February
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Watch Tower: What hope for children?
Central Chronicle, 11 February 2006
March
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Sickle cell screening makes genetic counselling everybody's business
BMJ, 11 March 2006 (password required) -
Blood Test Identifies Sickle Cell Patients at High Mortality Risk
MedPage Today, 8 March, 2006 -
Mapping offers cancer hope
MyDNA, 2 March 2006 -
Gene test helps predict lung cancer, study finds
Reuters, 16 March 2006 -
Dubai eGovernment signs agreement with UAE Free of Thalassemia through Future Leaders Group
AME Info, 27 March 2006 -
Better law makers for Pakistan heralds better future for children
Reuters, 28 March 2006
April
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Gov't considering establishment of central hospital in Jordan Valley
Jorden Times, 4 April 2006 -
Gene therapy can up immunity
Health 24, 3 April 2006 -
'U' Researchers Link Genetic Variation To Lupus
CBS, 17 April 2006 -
Common Genetic Link to Obesity Is Discovered
New York Times, 18 April 2006 -
250,000 thalassaemia patients in Pakistan
Daily Times, 23 April, 2006 -
Gene for rare, inherited bone disease isolated
The Toronto Star, 24 April, 2006 -
Gene Protects Against Diabetes, Heart Disease
Forbes, 21 April 2006
MAY
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Genetic clue to spotting cancer that strikes 30,000 men a year
The Times, 8 May 2006