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Episode 165: WDx #8 – Clinical unknown with Dr. Ann Marie Kumfer & Dr. Debra Bynum

The Clinical Problem Solvers

After completing medical school at Texas Tech University, she moved up to North Carolina for residency. She also serves as a section editor for the Human Diagnosis project. From there, she came to Chapel Hill for medical school and stayed at UNC for residency training.

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AMPLIFYâ„¢ Technology Enhances Prenatal Screening for 22q11.2 Microdeletion

Myriad Genetics

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). Previous data using other laboratory methods have yielded a PPV of approximately half that, around 53%.

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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. Thimerosal was removed from most vaccines in 2001 as a safety precaution. Geier and his late father, geneticist Mark Geier, spent decades promoting the idea that vaccines are linked to autism.

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

Physicians News Digest

Survey data gathered by AHRQ provides much of what is known about hospitalizations for motor accidents, measles, methamphetamine, and thousands of other medical issues. Medical errors caused by missed diagnoses, drug errors, hospital infections, and other factors kill and maim tens of thousands of Americans each year. Kennedy Jr.