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News: The Lancet retraction

Thursday, February 4, 2010 11:25 1 Comment

I’m sure you’ve heard, the medical journal, The Lancet, linking MMR vaccine with autism, is now retracting the article after all this time.  What do you think about that?
 
I think it’s a little too late.  It was weird too, because I was just talking to someone about this article and “how it all got started” [...]

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Chromosomal Microarray Analysis

Friday, December 11, 2009 9:43 2 Comments

Chromosomal Microarray Analysis — gene-chip technology
 
Have you heard of this test? It’s a genetic test that is supposed to be remarkably sensitive at detecting abnormalities (if there are any) where other tests could not.
 
Nick recently had this test performed at Children’s Hospital, Boston, and it came back slightly abnormal. The doctor (and lab) wants to [...]

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