Reviewed by Emily Henderson, B.Sc.Jul 27 2022 The Family Heart Foundation, a leading research and advocacy organization, completed an analysis of its large U.S. Family Heart DatabaseTM showing that while the percentage of patients diagnosed with familial hypercholesterolemia (FH) has increased substantially since 2016, most remain undiagnosed. The data is being presented in a poster titled, “Diagnosis...
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‘Probably just hormones’: Women’s illnesses going undiagnosed
Credit: CC0 Public Domain Helen McLaughlin says she was suffering so much that she would burn herself with a hot bottle “just because that was a nicer pain than the one that I was in”. But when her medical scans kept coming back clear, the doctors in London made her feel like “there’s nothing wrong...
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Fastest DNA sequencing technique helps undiagnosed patients find answers in mere hours
A research effort led by Stanford scientists set the first Guinness World Record for the fastest DNA sequencing technique, which was used to sequence a human genome in just 5 hours and 2 minutes. A new ultra-rapid genome sequencing approach developed by Stanford Medicine scientists and their collaborators was used to diagnose rare genetic diseases in an...