June 17, 2019
Journal of Genetic Counseling (vol. 27, no. 6, 2018) is available online by subscription only. Articles include: “Genetic Counselors’ Experience with and Opinions on the Management of Newborn Screening Incidental Carrier Findings” by Kristen Leppert et al. “Adopted Individuals’ Views … Read More
June 14, 2019
(NPR) – “The exclusion of people with disabilities from the biomedical workforce undermines the goal of achieving true diversity and is a missed opportunity for science and medicine,” she wrote in the New England Journal of Medicine at the end … Read More
May 28, 2019
(STAT News) – About a decade ago, Chmait heard about a pioneering Brazilian scientist and surgeon, Dr. Denise Lapa, who had spent years developing a way to repair spina bifida in the womb without making large incisions in the uterus … Read More
May 27, 2019
(The Guardian) – Torture is the word I used this week to describe the treatment of children and young adults in private and NHS units, following publication of a Care Quality Commission report about the use of restraint and segregation … Read More
May 24, 2019
(NPR) – An incapacitated woman who gave birth after being a patient at an Arizona health care facility for more than two decades had been raped repeatedly and may have been impregnated before, her lawyers say. In documents filed Wednesday, … Read More
April 17, 2019
(STAT News) – Watching all this have been people with a special interest in embryo editing: those who carry genetic mutations that can cause severe disease. They wonder whether experts who denounce embryo editing have any understanding of what millions … Read More
April 11, 2019
(Spectrum) – Autism is primarily a genetic condition: Most of the risk for autism comes from genes. Mutations in more than 100 genes are known to lead to the condition. There are four types of tests that can detect these … Read More
April 9, 2019
(Undark) – Hearing loss, they say, is not just a functional disability affecting a subset of aging adults. With population growth and a boom in the global elderly population, the World Health Organization (WHO) now estimates that by 2050, more … Read More
March 26, 2019
Maternal and Child Health Journal (vol. 22, no. 12, 2018) is available online by subscription only. Articles include: “Progress Toward Eliminating Mother to Child Transmission of HIV in Kenya: Review of Treatment Guidelines Uptake and Pediatric Transmission Between 2013 and … Read More
March 26, 2019
Occupational Medicine (vol. 68, no. 8, 2018) is available online by subscription only. Articles include: “Severe Learning Disabilities and Consent” by Anli Yue Zhou, Jacques Tamin, Susan Turner, and Donald Menzies “Fatigue Risk Management Systems Needed in Healthcare” by Peter … Read More
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