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Screening Genetic Diseases In Newborns

Doctors Told To Ignore Direct To Consumer Genetics Tests

Thanks to advances in medical technology we now have the ability to screen for thousands of genetic diseases in newborns, but in some cases this may not always be the healthiest thing to do.  Sometimes children are born with genetic diseases and it used to take years to get a diagnosis which often came too …

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Climate Change May Cause Increased Congenital Heart Defects

Climate Change May Cause Increased Congenital Heart Defects

Deniers of climate change often cite misleading and esoteric information typically associated with daily weather not the overall increase in global temperatures. Such unlearned views of skeptic rarely bother to take into consideration how climate change may impact human biology. The Journal of the American Heart Association has published a study from an international team …

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