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Should Texas store baby blood?
For almost seven years, the state of Texas has been indefinitely storing blood from nearly all newborns in Texas without their parents’ consent. Wild Things 2 download Never Talk to Strangers movie download Dinner Rush ipod Amityville II: The Possession dvd The blood collected as part of a 44-year-old state-mandated newborn screening program where blood from a baby’s heel so that the state can test for birth defects. The state used to discard the blood after six months and more recently, it was stored for three years before being destroyed. Starting in 2002, the state health department began collecting and keeping the blood indefinitely for current or future medical research. buy Fear of the Dark The Howling release North to Alaska film These samples can be used by the medical community for things like cancer research, birth defect studies, and calibration of lab equipment, says Doug McBride, spokesman for the…
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Does in vitro fertilization have increased genetic risks?
Millions of healthy children have been born and developed normally through in vitro fertilization (IVF). Still, many researchers still wonder if subtle changes exist in the embryos that are grown for several days in a Petri dish. A American Crimen movie download New epidemiological studies and new techniques that allow scientists to probe the genes of embryo cells have started to give researchers some tentative answers. The Dam Busters divx Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country trailer Dead Man’s Folly video Tears of the Sun ipod Bingo trailer According to The New York Times, some studies indicate that there may be some abnormal patterns of gene expression associated with IVF, and a possible increase in rare genetic disorders that appear to be linked to those gene expression patterns. Moon 44 dvd For Love or Money release Submerged movie Toolbox Murders psp Pretty in Pink divx Trigger Man download Halloween II…
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Toxic waste dump blamed for birth defects
Joy Shatford gave birth to her first son, Daniel, in 1997. When Mrs. Shatford unwrapped her newborn son, she discovered that he had been born with no fingers on his left hand. The Damned United full Ben film "It was such a shock. I just felt numb. I was left thinking I must have done something wrong during my pregnancy. But I didn’t smoke or drink; I didn’t even take an aspirin," she said. Dolphins hd Stone of Destiny movie full Séraphine on dvd I’ll Be There dvdrip Submerged rip Mrs. Shatford is not alone. Eighteen families in the UK are trying to secure a multimillion-pound suit for birth defects, which they claim were caused by mismanagement of toxic waste dumps. These mothers allege that during their pregnancies in the 1980s and 1990s they were exposed to contamination from waste sites left over from the clean up of a former…
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