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Letters.
CF Screening by the Numbers
Recent comments by Dr. Michael Mennuti bordered on arrogance and mean-spiritedness ("Pro & Con: Should preconceptual and prenatal cystic fibrosis carrier screening be a routine part of obstetrical care?" June 1, 2002, p. 5).
Dr. Mennuti said, "The guidelines were intended to specify what's best for patients--not consider whether physicians have the time to do this, whether insurance will pay for it, or whether CF carrier screening will be controversial relative to the abortion issue." I mainly wish to address his flippant attitude on rime constraints.
If I delivered 15 northern European babies per month annually from age 30 to 70, that would come to 7,200 "at-risk" deliveries. Thus, I could expect to encounter two fetuses afflicted with CF in my career.
A recently issued informed-consent video using professional production, scripting, and editing is 17 minutes long. I could probably get it down to 20 minutes with practice and still enable ...
- SEQUENOM Announces Launch of SensiGene Cystic Fibrosis Carrier Screening Test.
- Press release article from: PR Newswire September 17, 2009 700+ words
...like the SensiGene Cystic Fibrosis Carrier Screening test is essential...and the ACMG, cystic fibrosis carrier screening should be offered...About 1.1 million cystic fibrosis carrier screening tests are performed...
- Pro & Con: Should preconceptional and prenatal cystic fibrosis carrier...
- Magazine article from: OB GYN News June 1, 2002 700+ words
...with a family history of cystic fibrosis, reproductive partners...issued guidelines for cystic fibrosis (CF) carrier screening. The guidelines were...for it, or whether CF carrier screening will be controversial...
- Kaiser, Others Offering Cystic Fibrosis Carrier Screening.
- Magazine article from: OB GYN News KIRN, TIMOTHY F. May 1, 2000 700+ words
...California has begun offering routine cystic fibrosis pregnancy screening, joining the...testing program identified 147 cystic fibrosis carriers and 7 couples in which both members had a cystic fibrosis mutation, Dr. David R. Witt...
- EraGen Biosciences and Bayer HealthCare LLC, Diagnostics Division, Announce...
- Press release article from: PR Newswire May 18, 2005 700+ words
...to-use Cystic Fibrosis assay capable...mutation carrier screening, as well...References: Cystic fibrosis population carrier screening: 2004 revision...panel, ACMG Cystic Fibrosis Carrier Screening Work Group...
- Research from University of Alabama yields new data on cystic fibrosis.(Report)
- Newspaper article from: OBGYN & Reproduction Week February 16, 2009 700+ words
...diagnostic testing on suspicion of cystic fibrosis or during cystic fibrosis carrier screening, to men with a clinical diagnosis...between 850 individuals undergoing cystic fibrosis carrier screening and those submitted for diagnostic...
- Orchid BioSciences Launches ELUCIGENE(TM) CF29 Cystic Fibrosis Screening Test...
- Press release article from: PR Newswire August 16, 2001 700+ words
...guidelines for CLIA-approved laboratories to offer carrier screening of cystic fibrosis in non-Jewish Caucasians and Ashkenazi Jews...Guidelines for population-based Cystic Fibrosis Carrier Screening published recently by the ACMG. ELUCIGENE CF29...
- FDA Clears Osmetech's Cystic Fibrosis Genotyping Test.
- Newspaper article from: Pediatrics Week July 25, 2009 700+ words
...its eSensor® Cystic Fibrosis Genotyping Test for use on...multiplex test is used for cystic fibrosis carrier screening for adults of reproductive...in newborn screening for cystic fibrosis, and as a confirmatory diagnostic...
- Tm Bioscience launches Cystic Fibrosis test; TSX Venture: TMC.
- Press release article from: PR Newswire September 30, 2003 700+ words
...It(TM) Mutation Detection Kit for Cystic Fibrosis (CF40). Cystic fibrosis (CF) carrier screening is currently the world's largest and...It(TM) Mutation Detection Kit for Cystic Fibrosis The Tag-It(TM) Mutation Detection...
Source: HighBeam Research, Letters.