New Hope for Sarcopenia

New hope for haplotype mapping

The systematic analysis of polymorphisms across large parts of the human genome has begun to provide the first information on haplotypes and the problem of linkage disequilibrium across large genomic regions. These data suggest that significant regions of the genome show highly conserved haplotypes, potentially enhancing the ability to detect disease associations.

A new hope for Africa

After the success of the Green Revolution in conquering famine in India, Pakistan and elsewhere in Asia in the 1960s, the world entered a prolonged period of plentiful and cheap food. As documented by Roger Thurow and Scott Kilman in their book Enough: Why the World’s Poorest Starve in an Age of Plenty, this abundance shifted attention away from further agricultural development, particularly fo...

New Hope for Wisconsin Works

Created in 1935, Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) was a component of the Social Security Act, one which enabled states to provide assistance to needy children. Over the last sixty years, AFDC proliferated into an extensive set of programs designed to help needy families. As the program grew, complaints about its perceived problems also developed. Where some critics argued administ...

New Hope for Retinoblastoma Patients

Systemic chemotherapy regimens and focal treatment modalities such as radioactive plaque therapy have dramatically improved the outcomes of treatment for retinoblastoma such that patient survival with modern monitoring and treatment now exceeds 95%. Although the vast majority of patients respond adequately to current therapeutic strategies, treatment for a subset of patients with advanced retin...

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