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Genzyme unit to add 45 Santa Fe jobs  -  25 Mar 2008
CNNMoney.comSANTA FE (AP) - A Santa Fe company is expanding its operations, which could mean 45 new jobs in the capital city over the next three years.

More alike than different: Groups anxious about increased prenatal ...  -  Mar 17, 2008
Orangeburg Times Democrat,By HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH, AP Writer | Tuesday, March 18, 2008 KANSAS CITY, Kan. -- Carrie Arganbright's main pregnancy concern had been morning sickness,

Prenatal Testing of Babies Doesn't Have to End in Abortion ...  -  Mar 15, 2008
LifeNews.com,Prenatal testing, originally designed as a precautionary measure to identify potential problems in the early stages of pregnancy, allowed for corrective

New York Methodist Opens New Institute for Women’s Health  -  Feb 29, 2008
Brooklyn Daily Eagle,...a spacious fully renovated Birthing Center and full range of obstetrical services, including prenatal testing, minimally invasive gynecologic surgery,

Warnex Reports Fourth Quarter and Year End 2007 Results  -  Mar 14, 2008
Market Wire (press release)Even though Warnex lost its biggest prenatal testing customer in 2006, which represented approximately 50% of our Prenatest revenue, its prenatal testing

Presentation at ACMG Meeting Supports Utility of Sequenom’s ...  -  Mar 17, 2008
Business Wire (press release),...livestock and agricultural applications and molecular medicine, as well as for various diagnostic markets, including noninvasive prenatal testing,

Warnex Obtains Licence From Xenomics for Acute Myeloid Leukemia Test  -  Mar 3, 2008
PR-USA.net (press release),The Company believes its patented technology has a broad range of applications, including prenatal testing, infectious disease detection and tumor detection

Screening probably caused cystic fibrosis drop  -  Feb 27, 2008
Reuters India,Comeau said she can only speculate on the reason for the decline because her program only looks at newborn screening, not prenatal testing, pre-conception

Renowned bioethicist to give free public talk  -  Mar 21, 2008
WMU News,This scholarly work includes co-editing the books, "Prenatal Testing and Disability Rights" and "The Double-Edged Helix: Social Implications of Genetics in

Cantor Starts Sequenom (SQNM) at Buy; $12 PT  -  Mar 20, 2008
StreetInsider.com (subscription),...that translate genomic science into solutions for the biomedical research, molecular medicine, agricultural, and non-invasive prenatal testing markets.

Airbrushing away  -  Mar 2, 2008
Ottawa Citizen,That's why he's on the board of the Canadian Down Syndrome Society (CDSS), an advocacy group concerned about the coming of broader prenatal testing in

Sudeep Bhatia and Peter Radosevich  -  Feb 29, 2008
Tufts Daily,Though prenatal testing has provided valuable information for parents worldwide, it has also caused countless atrocities. Nobel Prize-winning economist

Rights Gained, but Much Left  -  Mar 6, 2008
Providence Journal,Yes, she said, suggesting that feminists who oppose abortions could “work on better prenatal testing, birth control, better access to health care,

Quarter of Rotterdam Turks Marry Relatives  -  Mar 11, 2008
NIS News Bulletin,...should be considered as a risk factor for congenital defects, just like late motherhood. The institute therefore advocates screening and prenatal testing.

Brownback's Backdoor Anti-Abortion Bill?  -  Mar 11, 2008
RH Reality Check,For women and families whose prenatal testing has indicated that the fetus has a genetic disorder, physicians will be required to provide "access to timely,

New CDC Study Shows Increase in Cerebral Palsy - 1 in 278 Children ...  -  Mar 4, 2008
PR Web (press release),...increased in the United States despite the introductions of modern prenatal testing, improved obstetric care, and newborn intensive care technologies.

Family of child with Tay-Sachs knows time is precious  -  Mar 3, 2008
MetroWest Daily News,Physicians can offer parents considered high risk for TSD premarriage and prenatal testing. Smith said if the father and mother both are determined to be

Letter: History reflects badly on Planned Parenthood  -  Feb 28, 2008
TCPalm,Planned Parenthood no longer uses the term eugenics, but it advocates prenatal testing and abortion on demand. Papers published by organization state that

Down syndrome groups anxious about increased prenatal testing  -  Jan 29, 2008
Belleville News Democrat,By HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH AP Writer Carrie Arganbright's main pregnancy concern had been morning sickness, until her doctor told her a blood test showed the

Lenetix Medical Screening Laboratories announces development of ...  -  Jan 29, 2008
PRLog.Org (press release),The change increases the scope of education that physician practices must provide to patients about these newer prenatal testing options,

Pain From No Strain  -  Feb 1, 2008
Mother Earth News,...including an often—missed explanation of mysterious body aches and pains, and a safe, fast method of prenatal testing that permits early diagnoses.

Sequenom and NAFTNet to Conduct Fetal Rhesus D Study in ...  -  Jan 30, 2008
Business Wire (press release),...livestock and agricultural applications and molecular medicine, as well as for various diagnostic markets, including noninvasive prenatal testing,

Lives worth living  -  Feb 6, 2008
Windsor Star,A funny thing happened when we relayed our decision to decline prenatal testing to the medical staff. The staff referred to my pregnancy as "in the hands of

When mums come first  -  Jan 22, 2008
Melbourne Herald Sun,Arbitrary limits compromise prenatal testing and good care. It can also cause women to unnecessarily opt for termination when results are uncertain.

Truly inconceivable  -  Feb 5, 2008
Atlanta Journal Constitution,Couples who discover through prenatal testing that their fetus has serious abnormalities could not end the pregnancy. Nor could a 13-year-old rape victim.

Thrombus Aspiration from Coronary Arteries; Intensive Management ...  -  Feb 10, 2008
Men's News Daily,It is estimated that 90-95% of couples who learn that their unborn child has Down’s syndrome, though prenatal testing, choose not to continue with the

Women carrying ill foetuses 'denied' abortions  -  Jan 19, 2008
NEWS.com.au,..."Women are being denied timely prenatal testing and abortion for foetal abnormality even when the abnormality is so severe that if the baby were born the

Holbrook to be honored at Tufts  -  Feb 4, 2008
Medfield Press,Her work focuses on noninvasive prenatal testing and she is well known for advances in understanding the implications of the exchange of cellsand genetic

Violating rights of unborn  -  Jan 22, 2008
Philadelphia Inquirer,If prenatal testing determines that a little one will be born with a condition like spina bifida, parents of that wanted fetus might choose a surgical

Sequenom Announces New York State Approval of a Noninvasive ...  -  Dec 27, 2007
WELT ONLINE,..."Genetic-based noninvasive prenatal testing could complement and potentially present a paradigm shift from current invasive testing procedures such as

Mandatory HIV Testing for Pregnant Women, Newborns in New Jersey  -  Dec 27, 2007
eFluxMediaNew Jersey thus joins a select few states with laws requiring prenatal testing. According to the Kaiser Foundation, a nonprofit research organization

New Jersey Requires HIV Test in Pregnancy  -  Dec 26, 2007
New York Times,...in the country for pregnant women and newborns, making New Jersey one of just a handful of states with laws requiring some form of prenatal testing.

Newborns, pregnant women in NJ to undergo routine HIV testing  -  Dec 26, 2007
AXcess News,Prenatal testing of pregnant women in NJ will become routine, including testing of some newborns, state health officials say. Acting Gov.

New Jersey to Mandate Prenatal HIV Testing  -  Dec 26, 2007
FOX NewsHIV testing will soon become part of routine prenatal care and be required for some newborns in New Jersey under a new law that supporters say is putting

HIV tests now common for pregnant women  -  Dec 27, 2007
Altoona Mirror,The only test she didn’t opt for was the prenatal testing for Down syndrome, she said. Martin said that test carried some risk, and the result wouldn’t have

Woman at risk increasingly opt out of testing  -  Dec 24, 2007
Independent Online,New York - Women who decline prenatal HIV screening are more likely to be HIV positive than women who undergo prenatal HIV screening, according to a study

Law puts NJ at front of war on infant HIV  -  Dec 27, 2007
Philadelphia Inquirer,Testing will become a routine part of prenatal care, and be required for at-risk newborns. By Tom Hester Jr. ASSOCIATED PRESS TRENTON - HIV testing will

New Jersey targets HIV transmissions  -  Dec 26, 2007
KPTM-TV,AP - December 26, 2007 10:23 AM ET TRENTON, NJ (AP) - A law being signed today in New Jersey will make HIV testing part of routine prenatal care,

Genetic counselor shows patients the options  -  Dec 21, 2007
Baltimore Sun,..."My job is to present options to patients with a family history of cancer or who are pregnant and want to investigate prenatal testing," said Scott, 27.

Market Review: Global Market Progressive Review Sequenom Inc.  -  Dec 27, 2007
Trading Markets (press release),...livestock and agricultural applications and molecular medicine, as well as for various diagnostic markets, including noninvasive prenatal testing,

Dean Koontz's Darkest Evening  -  Dec 28, 2007
FrontPage magazine.com,It's a telling contrast, that the book's most bloodthirsty character is one who wishes she had gotten more prenatal testing so she would have known to abort

Counselors help people work through confusion of pre-natal testing  -  Dec 10, 2007
Press-Enterprise,If prenatal testing comes back requiring further evaluation, it doesn't always mean the worst. In most of these cases, the pregnancies turn out to be

Refusing to slow down  -  Dec 24, 2007
Dailyrecord.com,...discovered the delta F508 gene that causes CF in 1989, making it possible to find carriers -- like Elaine and Thomas Gambuti -- and do prenatal testing.

Sequenom Has Big Genes to Fill  -  Dec 13, 2007
Seeking Alpha,...the prenatal diagnostic market, with products designed to enable non-invasive prenatal testing for Down’s syndrome and diseases such as cystic fibrosis.

Clinic celebrates milestone  -  Dec 13, 2007
Northwest Arkansas Times,She entered the program for early prenatal testing and pregnancy support, and her babies were born healthy at 32 weeks. Founded in 1989, Community Clinic is

Hologic Makes Perfect Sense  -  Dec 10, 2007
CNBC,That leadership status in so many areas – breast cancer diagnosis and treatment, cervical cancer screening, prenatal testing and more – comes thanks to a

High Growth Reported for the Cell-Based Diagnostics Market  -  Dec 5, 2007
Business Wire (press release),...management prenatal testing Cell analysis techniques and trends are discussed from the point of view of their present and potential market impact.

Study seeks genetic clues to homosexuality  -  Dec 1, 2007
North County Times,Many gays fear that if gay genes are identified, it could result in discrimination, prenatal testing and even abortions to eliminate homosexuals,

Gene tests alarm Down syndrome families  -  Nov 24, 2007
AZ Central.com,The rise in prenatal testing means the ranks of people with certain diseases could be drastically reduced - but that prospect makes some parents worry that

xenomics announces issuance of a us patent that covers use of ...  -  Nov 14, 2007
CNNMoney.com...to a broad range of applications, including prenatal testing, tumor detection and monitoring, tissue transplantation, infectious disease detection,

advanced prenatal care offers more accurate screening  -  Nov 11, 2007
Yakima Herald-Republic,...prenatal testing wasn't offered until the second trimester, and women weren't automatically offered the test unless they were 35 or older. now,

acute hiv infection found frequently in pregnant women; enhanced ...  -  Nov 7, 2007
Aidsmap,...the mother-infant pairs were identified only when the mothers underwent repeat antibody testing as a component of routine prenatal testing for a second

u. to launch center for genetic ethics  -  Nov 5, 2007
Daily Pennsylvanian,...said in a press release. other projects being headed by the center at penn include a historical analysis of prenatal testing for cystic fibrosis and

move expands elizabeth ministry's mission to offer help women ...  -  Nov 27, 2007
Appleton Post Crescent,...fertility and infertility issues, reproductive technology, pregnancy and prenatal testing, birth, adoption, infant/child crisis/special needs,

sequenom to sponsor workshop introducing prenatal diagnostics at ...  -  Nov 5, 2007
Business Wire (press release),...and director of the storage disorders clinic at baylor university, houston strategies for successful noninvasive prenatal testing: fetal identifiers and

examine the cell-based diagnostics industry: technology ...  -  Nov 7, 2007
PR-Inside.com (Pressemitteilung),...market for cell assays in prenatal testing chapter seven: conclusions and strategic implications * conclusion o implication * conclusion o implication

labcorp launches integrated and sequential prenatal screening  -  Oct 29, 2007
Laboratory Network,...chief scientific officer and medical director, myla p. lai-goldman, md "adding these tools to our comprehensive menu of prenatal testing services will

doctors urged to offer down syndrome screening to expectant mothers  -  Nov 16, 2007
KCRA.com,..."i had the appropriate prenatal testing for a low-risk pregnancy," said linn. so now, the american college of obstetricians and gynecologists is

sequenom names john a. fazio to board of directors  -  Nov 1, 2007
WELT ONLINE,...molecular medicine, and non-invasive prenatal testing. sequenom’s proprietary massarray® system is a high-performance nucleic acid analysis platform

the end of childbirth 101?  -  Nov 12, 2007
New York Times,...“today, women are more focused on prenatal testing and monitoring the pregnancy than in learning how to give birth,'’ she said. research shows that there’s

over $5 million to establish penn center for the integration of ...  -  Nov 6, 2007
UPENN Almanac,...and social consequences of prenatal testing in the areas of cystic fibrosis and down syndrome, led by dr. ruth schwartz cowan, chair of the department

living in memory of ava  -  Nov 18, 2007
Eagle Tribune,...nor was she willing to get pregnant and then abort if prenatal testing showed the baby had the disease. so she pursued the first option and,

breakthrough diagnostic kits for viral pandemics developed by ...  -  Nov 10, 2007
Israel 21C,...about one in 750 children are born with, or develop, disabilities as a result of cmv infection. prenatal testing for this virus is mandatory in many

debbie woodell | the 'gay-gene' controversy  -  Nov 5, 2007
Philadelphia Daily News,...worry that finding some sort of genetic marker will foster discrimination by giving parents more reason for prenatal testing and even terminating the

intellectual disability: understanding its development, causes ...  -  Oct 31, 2007
Psychiatric Services (subscription)...the velocardiofacial syndrome, fragile x syndrome, and others. each description includes prevalence, genetics, prenatal testing, physical features,

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