A collaboration of 24 leading human geneticists will look at TB, heart disease, type 1 and 2 diabetes, arthritis, Crohn's disease, ulcerative colitis, bipolar disorder and hypertension, in hopes to gain a better understanding of who is at risk, and the development of new treatments.

Researchers in the Wellcome Trust Case Control Consortium (WTCCC) will analyze over 19,000 DNA samples - 2,000 from patients with each disease which will be compared with 3,000 samples from healthy people to identify the genetic differences between them

A new study reveals some 6,000 doctors - the majority from New Orleans - have been displaced by Hurricane Katrina. The study also warns that many medical records have been destroyed and lost.

Says researcher Thomas Ricketts, PhD, "We don't know what this is going to mean to health care. We've never had to deal with something like this before." Ricketts adds that some doctors may retire or resettle elsewhere, and recreating lost medical records is going to be tough

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Scientists at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and at the University of Florida find the sick dogs' disease almost identical to the H3N8 influenza strain that afflicts horses

Researchers at the University Medical Center in Utrecht in the Netherlands speculate that there is a shared origin early in life for both left-handedness and developing breast cancer, possibly exposure to hormones in the womb, according to their new study.

"Left handedness is associated with breast cancer, most specifically pre-menopausal breast cancer," says Cuno Uiterwaal, an assistant professor of clinical epidemiology at the university

Researchers at the University Medical Center in Utrecht in the Netherlands speculate that there is a shared origin early in life for both left-handedness and developing breast cancer, possibly exposure to hormones in the womb, according to their new study.

"Left handedness is associated with breast cancer, most specifically pre-menopausal breast cancer," says Cuno Uiterwaal, an assistant professor of clinical epidemiology at the university