prenatal testing

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NICE Review of antenatal care (17/04/2018)

NICE intends to update their Guidance on Antenatal Care and have issued a draft scope for consultation. Service delivery and provision of care have changed considerably since the last...

Public Health England - Informed Choice Consultation (16/11/2017)

The UK National Screening Committee (UK NSC) is consulting on its guidance covering the development, production and review of information to support all UK population screening programmes. Their aim is...

Nuffield Council on Bioethics - prenatal testing (01/08/2016)

Nuffield Council on Bioethics - Call for views and evidence on non-invasive prenatal testing.To explore the ethical, legal and regulatory implications of recent and potential future scientific developments in non-invasive...

UK National Screening Committee Consultation on Screening for cfDNA in pregnancy (29/10/2015)

CMF has responded to the UK National Screening Committee Consultation. Information about the consultation can be found here. The UK National Screening Committee is currently consulting on a new screening...

Keziah (triple helix - Christmas 2011)

This is one of a small but growing number of books on the market telling the story of how people cope with the news that their unborn child has a potentially fatal diagnosis. 20 weeks into pregnancy, a short, 'impersonal' phone call, informed Lizzie Grayson that her daughter had Trisomy...

patients refused pre-implantation genetic tests (nucleus - summer 2009)

Couples at risk of passing on inheritable genetic diseases to their offspring are being denied funding to screen their embryos, experts have claimed.  Such individuals are eligible for IVF in order to produce embryos that can be tested for abnormalities via pre-implantation genetic diagnosis (PGD). However, such procedures may cost a...

Should baby be risked for sister?

Is it wrong to select a deaf embryo?

Defiant Birth - Women Who Resist Medical Eugenics (Book Review) (triple helix - autumn 2006)

Russell T Davies, writer of the current 'Doctor Who' series, may well applaud this book. Discussing the insane cyber controller's vision of eradicating all human weakness and sickness, Doctor Who warns him of the result: 'a metal earth, with metal men and metal thoughts'. Sadly, in the real world, those...

The Shaming of the Strong - The challenge of an unborn life (Book Review) (triple helix - summer 2006)

To date, there has been a shortage of accessible material on the experience of continuing a pregnancy where the child has been found to have a severe abnormality. Here, at last, is a book where allied medical professionals, pastors and friends can see into the hearts of a family living...