Genetic Screening

Israeli children who sue for being born

Jared Yee | 03 November 2011

Israeli children with birth defects increasingly sue medical authorities for allowing them to be born.

Non-invasive Down syndrome test available next week

Michael Cook | 22 October 2011

A new non-invasive test for Down syndrome will be offered in 20 cities from Monday. According to an article in the journal Genetics in Medicine, it picks up 98.6% of DS children and has a false positive rate of only 0.2%. This is a vast improvement on existing screening tests, whose false positive rate can be as high as 5%.

Extinct diseases: a mixed blessing

Michael Cook | 25 February 2010

With screening plus abortion some diseases are disappearing