| Fall/Winter 2009 |
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- Comprehensive summary of NCHPEG products and programs
- Knowledge isn't enough: Evaluating the effectiveness of NCHPEG's targeted education programs
- Updates on new and ongoing NCHPEG projects
- Scotti Award Recipient 2009
- NCHPEG News
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| Spring/Summer 2008 |
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- A History of Third-Party Payment for Healthcare Services in the United States
- When Looking for Answers Takes You to the Edge Financially, and Challenges & Common-Sense Tips in the Hunt for a Diagnosis
- Stickler Involved People
- NCHEPG NEWS
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| Spring 2007 |
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- Why personalize medicine?
- Battle of the Genomes: A Virologic Perspective of Pharmacogenomics in HIV/AIDS Therapies
- Nurses’ Role in Pharmacogenetics
- HIV Pharmacogenomics
- NCHPEG’s new site for Pas
- The Clinical Utility and Teaching Implications of Pharmacogenomics
- Highlights from NCHPEG’s 10th Annual Meeting
- The 2007 Scotti Award Winner
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| Spring/Summer 2006 |
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- Doctor, what do you mean my genetic test came back positive?
- When is a mutation associated with disease?
- Communicating with the lab: Is the staff on board?
- You’ve got the right result, but does the patient really ‘get it’?
- Family history in the broader context of genetic testing: From single-gene disorders to complex disease
- Tying it all together: Challenges and opportunities for genetic testing in primary care
- Race, Genetics, and Healthcare: An Online NCHPEG CME Program
- Scotti Award Recipient 2006
- Genetics Education Website for Physician Assistants
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| WINTER 2006 - spanish |
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Spanish translation of Summer 2005 Newsletter |
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| Summer 2005 |
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- Ancestry Testing: Where Genealogy meets Genetics
- The Mystery of Family Nosebleeds Uncovered: Hereditary Hemorrhagic Telangiectasia (HHT)
- Surviving Cancer from 9 to 99: a family affair
- On the Web: Genetics Through a Primary Care Lens
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| Spring 2005 |
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- Virginia is for family history lovers
- Comparison of Selected Family History Tools in the Public Domain
- Breeding Better Humans: Evolution, Agriculture, and the Birth of Human Genetics
- Long fingers –longer life: Marfan syndrome revealed in the family history
- Begat, Beget, Begotten
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| Winter 2005 |
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- Persons with Dwarfism: A changing perspective
- Screen Short, Simple, Sensible: A family history mnemonic for primary care
- The Oral Tradition Meets the Genetic Family History: Anthropologists, folklorists, genetic health specialists, and consumers unite
- 1st Annual National Family History Day: The surgeon general’s family history initiative
- Relatively Speaking: Family history and consanguinity
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| Summer 2004 |
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- The pedigree, taken to heart
- New family history tools further the science and art of medicine
- Shaking the family tree: States hope family history data will bear fruit for public health initiatives
- Family history tools
- Famous and fascinating family histories for the classroom
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| Spring 2004 |
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- Is a Universal Family History Tool Feasible?
- Proceed with caution:We may have 20/20 hindsight, but we are still blind to the biases of our own time.
- The Case of Laura: Given a striking history of colon cancer, early detection becomes a family affair
- Fragile X Revealed: When a picture is worth 1000 words
- The Pedigree Before the Pill
- ON THE WEB: Your Family History—Your Future
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| Fall 2003 |
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Five to 10 people out of every 100 are fathered by someone other than the man listed on their birth certificate.* Misattributed paternity, also called non-paternity, crosses all racial and socioeconomic groups. In addition to obvious social implications, non-paternity has clinical relevance: it can challenge your ability to take an accurate genetic family history, and it can significantly alter genetic risk assessment and case management.
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| Summer 2003 |
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As is the case for many genetic conditions, family history and ethnicity figure prominently in decisions about whether to offer cystic fibrosis carrier testing and in the interpretation of test results.
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| Spring 2003 |
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Why family history?
A detailed, three-generation family history is a cost effective tool for applying genetic concepts in health care. Because the genetic family history can help you visualize how traits are clustering within families and moving through generations, it can also play a critical role in diagnosis and lay the foundation for accurate risk assessment.
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