Genetic Heart Diseases in Tasmania

Using Mobile Health to Improve Genetic and Heart Diseases Prediction

Introduction: Mobile personal health are a rapidly growing area of health information technology. Mobile personal health users are able to manage their own health data and communicate with doctors in order to improve healthcare quality and efficiency. In recent years, information and communication technologies improvements, along with mobile Internet, offering anywhere and anytime connectivity,...

Stem Cells Application in Modeling of Human Genetic Diseases

The use of animal models in modeling of human genetic disease has many advantages. In some cases, however, this method may not be applicable due to some limitations, such as differences in tissue composition, anatomy and physiology of humans and animals. Isogenic human disease models are a population of cells that are selected or engineered to model a specific genetic disease, in vitro. They ar...

Genetic Determinants of Heart Rate Variation and Cardiovascular Diseases

O-27: Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis in Prevention of Genetic Diseases -Diagnostic of Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA)

Background: Preimplantation genetic diagnosis - PGD is currently an established procedure allowing genetic research of oocyte or embryo before implantation to the uterus. Spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) is a neurodegenerative disorder, being the second most common lethal autosomal recessive disease in Caucasians, after cystic fibrosis. There are three clinically different types of which type I (W...

Hospital services in Tasmania.

Tasmania is geographically the smallest (68,049 km) and southernmost state of Australia. It consists of an island group straddling latitude 42S approximately 300 km south of Melbourne across Bass Strait. Although constituting only 0.9 per cent of Australia’s landmass, the state is the size of Ireland, or Belgium and The Netherlands combined. The population of 470,749 is 2.6 per cent of the Aust...