He worries: Could genetic testing eliminate people with autism?
Newsweek magazine profiles Ari Ne’eman, the 21-year-year-old founder of the nonprofit Autistic Self-Advocacy Network. Ne’eman is a master networker who wants to convince the world that autism is not a...
View ArticleIn JAMA: New prenatal tests raise ethical concerns
By Peter A. Benn and Audrey R. Chapman in the Journal of the American Medical Association (subscription required): Benn and Chapman say noninvasive prenatal diagnosis for fetal chromosomal...
View ArticleWriter sees ‘impending epidemic of disability abortions’
Writing in the American Spectator, Daniel Allott assesses the potential impact of Sequenom, a California company that has promised to produce an earlier, more reliable prenatal test for Down syndrome....
View ArticleOregon couple seeks $14 million in ‘wrongful birth’ lawsuit
Doctors failed to diagnose daughter’s Down syndrome prenatally, they say From the [Portland] Oregonian: A Portland couple whose 2-year-old daughter was born with Down syndrome is suing their doctor for...
View ArticleTwo prenatal Down syndrome diagnoses, two perspectives
From the [UK] Sunday Times: Two mothers share their perspectives on deciding whether or not to terminate a pregnancy after receiving a Down syndrome diagnosis: Helena Campbell says she could not bear...
View ArticleMA legislators push broader insurance coverage for disabilities
From the Boston Globe: The Massachusetts legislature is considering more than 70 bills that could mandate medical insurance coverage for people with disabilities and potentially raise healthcare costs....
View ArticleA world with no more Down syndrome?
In The Checkup blog for the Washington Post, Jennifer LaRue Huget cites a recent article by Dr. Brian Skotko and asks, “What would the world be like if there were no more people with Down syndrome?”...
View Article‘A future without Down syndrome?’
Dana Goldstein, an associate editor at the Daily Beast, says improved prenatal testing could well reduce the number of secular, educated families who have children with Down syndrome. She interviews...
View ArticleEditorial: Lancet waited too long to retract autism-vaccine study
The editorial board of the Wall Street Journal says the Lancet’s retraction of Andrew Wakefield’s 1998 vaccine study comes “about 12 years too late.” The research paper, which purported to link...
View ArticleDiscredited anti-vaccine doctor Wakefield quits autism center
From the [UK] Times, [UK] Guardian, Austin [TX] American-Statesman (blog): Andrew Wakefield, the discredited British doctor whose research triggered a wave of opposition to childhood vaccines, has...
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