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Intermountain Healthcare announced today a massive study conducted in partnership with deCODE genetics that invites children and families to voluntarily provide DNA samples to Intermountain Primary Children’s Hospital. Through its collection of 50,000 DNA samples, “HerediGene: Children’s Study” aims to utilize the DNA of children ranging from newborns to infants to help researchers discover cures for genetic disorders and to help children with these disorders access needed treatment.     According to Dr. Joshua Bonkowsky, professor of pediatrics at the University of Utah Health and ...

Ending the Diabetes-COVID Disaster           Overview of Excess, Preventable COVID Diabetes Deaths in New York City, New York State and the Nation             When Loretta Fleming, a South Bronx public housing resident with diabetes, took local self-management classes after years of failed efforts at trying to  better control her diabetes, she was able to  reduce her A1C (a blood sugar measure) from a near lethal 11% to 6.5%.  She knew that by doing this  she was slashing her risks for kidney failure, amputation and a range of other diabetes –related complications; w...

1:53 Medical staff at Logan Regional Hospital pose by banner announcing the lab as a participation site for the HerediGene Population Study. Credit Brad Gillman / Intermountain Healthcare Residents of Cache Valley have a unique opportunity to be part of a global genetic study; an international collaboration between Intermountain Healthcare and deCODE Genetics of Iceland. “It's a large population genomic study, by which we're collecting blood samples from 500,000 patient samples here in Utah, portions of Idaho, and also in Nevada. And those samples are sent to deCODE where we do whole genome...