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...first days of medical school, students are often asked, "What has hooves and gallops?" The good medical student answers, "A horse, unless of course it's a zebra." This question is meant to teach students that most patients who cough have colds, not cystic fibrosis, or that most patients who have bruised shins suffer from clumsiness, not leukemia. But what is true for most is unfortunately not so for all - and one of the most crucial and challenging skills that medical students must learn is to diagnose "the horse" efficiently without forgetting "the zebra...
...variations are immediately life threatening. In fact, most of them have no apparent effect. The variants are not like the mutations most of us learned about in school--alterations that cause entire genes or series of genes to malfunction and that result in diseases like sickle-cell anemia and cystic fibrosis. Instead the changes nutritional geneticists are looking for are more like normal variations in the correct spelling of a word--say, theatre or theater, depending on whether you speak the Queen's English or American. "We all have these variants in our genes," says Ray Rodriguez, a geneticist...
...accordance with a national shortage of flu vaccines this fall, Massachusetts restricted the vaccine to patients 75 years old and above and high-risk patients, including those suffering from diseases like cystic fibrosis, kidney disease and chronic lung problems...
Many birth defects, like cystic fibrosis, are monogenic, or the result of one mutation on a gene...
High-risk cases are those involving patients who suffer from diseases like cystic fibrosis, kidney disease, lung problems, heart disease, cancer, or who have recently finished being treated for such conditions...