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AMPLIFY™ Technology Enhances Prenatal Screening for 22q11.2 Microdeletion

Myriad Genetics

5 Clear Benefits for Healthcare Providers and Patients The benefits to a high PPV are, well, myriad. For example, Driscoll (2001) wrote on the benefits of early 22q detection: Couples can opt to pursue diagnostic testing. Prenatal Diagnosis. Prenatal diagnosis of the 22q11.2 Genet Med   3 , 14–18 (2001).

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RFK Jr. Hires Autism Skeptic To Look Into CDC Autism Data

Physician's Weekly

It led to revocation of the elder Geier’s medical license and disciplinary action for David Geier for practicing medicine without a license. The VSD includes data from a dozen large healthcare networks. Thimerosal was removed from most vaccines in 2001 as a safety precaution. The final findings were published in 2003.

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Trump Whacks Agency That Makes the Nation’s Health Care Safer

Physicians News Digest

On April 1, the Trump administration slashed the organization that supported that research — the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, or AHRQ — and fired roughly half of its remaining employees as part of a perplexing reorganization of the federal Health and Human Services Department. Nobody does these things except AHRQ,” she said.