03May/16

Carrier Screening Firms Question Methods of Study That Finds Their Assays Deficient – GenomeWeb

Carrier Screening Firms Question Methods of Study That Finds Their Assays Deficient
GenomeWeb
GenePeeks’ Silver agreed that it would not make sense to disqualify all 27 donors from the sperm bank because they carried mutations in one of the 4,813 genes related to disease. And GenePeeks itself doesn’t screen all those genes, but a subset of 479.

03May/16

De Blasio plans a crisis response, without the sense of crisis – Capital New York


Capital New York

De Blasio plans a crisis response, without the sense of crisis
Capital New York
It’s that angle on the mayor’s current problems that the administration has pushed most forcefully — that Cuomo, for political reasons, is behind the most visible of the current scandal storylines, related to his fundraising for Senate Democrats

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03May/16

America’s Heroin Epidemic Is Actually Helping Those Waiting For Organ Transplants – Medical Daily


Medical Daily

America’s Heroin Epidemic Is Actually Helping Those Waiting For Organ Transplants
Medical Daily
Yet, in a morbid twist of fate, it has also positively impacted another problem within the United States health care system: an ever-growing need for organ donors. As the number of people who have lost their lives from heroin overdoses has increased