Total and live birth prevalence of singleton pregnancies with Down's syndrome in Scotland between 2000 and 2021: a population-based study Our population-based insights into TB and LB prevalence of DS in Scotland are important in establishing baseline trends to investigate the impact of NIPT. This enables up-to-date counselling for those...

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Researchers outline key features and detection advances of #ExtrachromosomalCircularDNA, showing how long-read sequencing unlocks #eccDNA’s potential as stable #biomarkers for #cancer, #DrugResistance monitoring, #PrenatalTesting, and immune diseases.

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An Interview With Yuk Ming Dennis Lo - Lasker Foundation Yuk Ming Dennis Lo was the featured speaker at the Spring 2024 Lasker Lessons in Leadership event. Lo discussed his scientific training in the UK, establishing a lab in Hong Kong, and crossing the…

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Prenatal Genetic Testing: Why Paying Cash Could Save You Money Mara Varona, an expectant mother, faced an unexpectedly high medical bill of $750 for a prenatal genetic test, even though she assumed insurance would cover most of the cost. The test…

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Could Your Baby Arrive Early? This Test Might Tell You Sooner Than Ever Scientists discovered a way to forecast premature birth by examining gene activity in a pregnant person’s blood. Here’s how it works.

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Disability, Relational Equality, and the Expressivist Objection Proponents of the expressivist objection argue that the use and provision of testing to select against disability in offspring express negative judgments about existing persons with disabilities. But....

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People were less averse to #risk (d = 0.4) when making #prenatalTesting decisions in their SECOND #language — even when they seemed to understand the relevant information.

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📢 NEW paper! HC President Vardit Ravitsky coauthored a study exploring decision-makers perspectives on what it takes to responsibly implement noninvasive prenatal testing (NIPT) as a first-tier test in Canada. 🧬

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Could This Prenatal Blood Test Detect Cancer in Pregnant Patients? Researchers are trying to understand how a common prenatal blood test called NIPT is detecting cancer in some pregnant patients.

How Is This Prenatal Blood Test Detecting Cancer in Pregnant Patients?

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Women’s wellbeing as an empty declaration? A qualitative exploration of challenges in accessing termination of pregnancy due to fetal anomaly in Germany - BMC Medical Ethics Background The provision of prenatal testing through publicly funded healthcare systems, including non-invasive prenatal testing (NIPT), is frequently justified on the basis of supporting reproductive...

Women’s wellbeing as an empty declaration? A qualitative exploration of challenges in accessing termination of
pregnancy due to fetal anomaly in Germany

Tamar Nov-Klaiman, Hilary Bowman-Smart & Ruth Horn

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Negotiating severity behind the scenes: prenatal testing in Germany - PubMed Foetal-related severity is a key concept in policy and legislation relating to access to both reproductive technologies and selective abortions in many countries around the world, but not in Germany. ...

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How is severity understood in prenatal testing in Germany? This study by Tamar Nov-Klaiman, @hbowmansmart.bsky.social & @ruthhorn.bsky.social explores how it’s negotiated despite not being a legal justification for screening or termination.

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"The decisions parents make after #PrenatalTesting are private and individual ones. But when the decisions so overwhelmingly swing one way - to abort - it does seem to reflect something more: an entire society’s judgment about the lives of people with #DownSyndrome."

"If our world didn’t have people with special needs and vulnerabilities, would we be missing a part of our humanity?"

Thoughtful @TheAtlantic-piece by @sarahzhang about #DownSyndrome, #PrenatalTesting - and how it may impact the society we live...