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			<title>Different diseases may share genetic links</title>
			<link>http://www.phgfoundation.org/news/month/05/2012/#story_11784</link>
			<pubDate>Thu, 03 May 2012 00:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ Genetic research is shedding light on how apparently very different diseases may be more closely related than previously supposed.  &amp;nbsp;  Determining the genetic causes and contributions to different diseases is important for understanding how diseases arise, and how it may be possible to prevent  ... ]]></description>
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			<title>Fat mice provide genetic clues to obesity puzzle</title>
			<link>http://www.phgfoundation.org/news/month/04/2012/#story_11653</link>
			<pubDate>Thu, 12 Apr 2012 00:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ A new study published in Nature Medicine provides clues as to how a gene mutation may lead to obesity.&amp;nbsp;  &amp;nbsp;  Mutations in the brain-derived neurotrophic factor gene (BDNF) have previously been shown to cause obesity in mice and have been identified in severely obese children.&amp;nbsp;Genome-wi ... ]]></description>
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			<title>Proposed EU Data Protection reform and public health genomics</title>
			<link>http://www.phgfoundation.org/news/month/03/2012/#story_11462</link>
			<pubDate>Fri, 16 Mar 2012 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ For some years, regulators and commentators have been aware that the regulatory framework governing the processing of personal data within Europe (through the EU Data Protection Directive 95/46/EC and the UK Data Protection Act (1998)) was in need of some reform to take account of technological adva ... ]]></description>
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			<title>Will new technologies normalise sex selective abortion?</title>
			<link>http://www.phgfoundation.org/news/month/02/2012/#story_11322</link>
			<pubDate>Mon, 27 Feb 2012 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ The&amp;nbsp;Department of Health has launched an inquiry after the Telegraph newspaper reported evidence that doctors at abortion clinics in the UK were prepared to terminate pregnancies on the grounds of foetal sex.  Undercover reporters went with women to clinics across the country requesting termina ... ]]></description>
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			<title>Private cord blood banking in the NHS?</title>
			<link>http://www.phgfoundation.org/news/month/02/2012/#story_11144</link>
			<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ The umbilical cord blood banking company, Virgin Health Bank, has announced a new partnership with Cambridge University Hospitals (CUH) NHS Trust, the first such deal between a private cord blood bank and an NHS hospital in the UK.  &amp;nbsp;  Virgin will be able to market their stem cell banking servi ... ]]></description>
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			<title>PHG Foundation response to the HGSG report</title>
			<link>http://www.phgfoundation.org/news/month/01/2012/#story_11086</link>
			<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ Established in 2010 as part of the Government&amp;rsquo;s response to the House of Lords Inquiry into genomic medicine, the Human Genomics Strategy Group (HGSG), under the chairmanship of Sir John Bell, has taken a wide and detailed look at the emerging technologies and considered how the NHS can reap t ... ]]></description>
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			<title>Drivers and barriers for companion diagnostics</title>
			<link>http://www.phgfoundation.org/news/month/01/2012/#story_10897</link>
			<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jan 2012 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ The importance of companion diagnostic development and approval as an essential corollary to the development of stratified medicines continues to attract attention.  &amp;nbsp;  In July 2011, US regulator the FDA announced that approval of new forms of stratified medicines was likely to require simultan ... ]]></description>
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