Unease About Genetic Screening For Some Less Severe And Treatable Diseases

A number of couples in Israel were told their fetuses screened positive for Gaucher’s disease and decided to terminate their pregnancies. Gaucher’s disease ranges from mild and very treatable to severe. An article in the September 19 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) puts forward a number of questions regarding the appropriateness of some types of genetic screenings. [click link for full article]

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Filed under: Fertility on September 20th, 2007