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Platelet Rich Plasma Prolotherapy injections to the elbow – Video

February 22nd, 2014

Platelet Rich Plasma Prolotherapy injections to the elbow
Prolotherapist Danielle Steilen, MMS, PA-C demonstrates a Prolotherapy with PRP treatment to a lateral elbow. If you have a sports injury or other elbow pain...

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How To Survive Armageddon, Peter Kling 20Feb2014 – Video

February 22nd, 2014

How To Survive Armageddon, Peter Kling 20Feb2014
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4:10 How To Survive Armageddon, Peter Kling 20Feb2014 – Video

February 22nd, 2014

4:10 How To Survive Armageddon, Peter Kling 20Feb2014
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3:10 How To Survive Armageddon, Peter Kling 20Feb2014 – Video

February 22nd, 2014

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7:10 How To Survive Armageddon, Peter Kling 20Feb2014 – Video

February 22nd, 2014

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6:10 How To Survive Armageddon, Peter Kling 20Feb2014 – Video

February 22nd, 2014

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GAMERS RECRUITED TO CREATE PLAGUE? – Video

February 22nd, 2014

GAMERS RECRUITED TO CREATE PLAGUE?
Plague Inc uses frighteningly realistic models to enable the #39;player #39; to design a deadly virus; the object, to kill every human being on the planet. They #39;ve ...

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8:10 How To Survive Armageddon, Peter Kling 20Feb2014 – Video

February 22nd, 2014

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10:10 How To Survive Armageddon, Peter Kling 20Feb2014 – Video

February 22nd, 2014

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Genetic testing = designer babies?

February 22nd, 2014

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Editor's note: Robert Klitzman is a professor of psychiatry and director of the Masters of Bioethics Program at Columbia University. He is author of "Am I My Genes?: Confronting Fate and Family Secrets in the Age of Genetic Testing."

(CNN) -- "It's a miracle," she told me. "We can now have a baby that won't have Huntington's disease. I thought I'd never be able to have any kids -- because of the disease." Her father had died from this disorder, which results from a gene mutation. She feared that she might have the mutation, too. But she was too scared to undergo testing for it. She also worried that if she had it, she might pass it on to her children.

This disease causes severe neurological and psychiatric problems, and eventual death at around the same age as one's parent died of it -- usually in one's 40s or 50s. If a parent has the disease, each child has a 50% chance of inheriting it.

Woody Guthrie, the singer and songwriter, died of this illness. His children then had to debate whether they wanted to know if they, too, had the lethal mutation. His son, Arlo, for instance, decided not to find out. Many such offspring feel that to undergo this genetic test is to risk "getting a death sentence," i.e., while they may feel fine, they know they have a mutation that will kill them.

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The woman with whom I spoke was afraid to learn if she had this gene. But she wanted to make sure that her children did not get it.

Luckily, a relatively new procedure -- pre-implantation genetic diagnosis, or PGD -- allows doctors to test embryos before they are implanted into a woman's womb, to help ensure that certain gene mutations are not passed on. Using In Vitro Fertilization, sperm fertilize eggs outside the womb, creating embryos. When the embryos are a few days old, one cell is removed and can be tested for hundreds of genes.

This woman struggled with what to do. She feared she would be playing God. But she decided to undergo the procedure. The doctor told her that embryos without the mutation were implanted inside her. He did not tell her whether he had identified any embryos with the mutation. Thus, she was able to have a child free of the gene mutation that would cause Huntington's disease, tremendously relieving her and her husband of worries. She still does not know if she has the bad gene herself.

But this procedure is raising myriad complex ethical and social issues. It can eliminate gene mutations for untreatable diseases that kill infants and adults. But it can also be used to select embryos based on other genetic factors.

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