Until now, women who were in high risk pregnancies for Down’s syndrome, underwent invasive procedures like amniocentesis or chorionic villus sampling, to detect the disorder, but it looks like there is a way of cutting invasive testing for Down’s syndrome by 98%.BMJ published today a new research called &... |
11 January 2011
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Denmark is currently a world leader in setting up a national system of Down syndrome prevention and detection, newly-published study results show. The paper, published November 27th in the British Medical Journal (BMJ), details how the nation managed to reduce its numbers of Down syndrome infants by more than half, a... |
28 November 2008
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Identifying inherited disease in fetuses has been thus far a procedure that involved significant risk of miscarriage, due to the fact that the medical procedures required were invasive and implied driving a needle in the amniotic sack that surrounds the babies when they are still in the womb. Now, a team of researche... |
25 November 2008
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There is a normal natural sex ratio slightly biased in favor of the boys: 103-106 male newborns to 100 female newborns in all human populations. But researchers have noticed that at about 20 years old, this ratio can be 100:100, as male babies are more vulnerable to diseases and have a higher mortality rate. But the ... |
19 April 2007
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