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		<title>Discredited anti-vaccine doctor Wakefield quits autism center</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2010/02/18/wakefield-quits-28284/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Feb 2010 00:54:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the [UK] Times, [UK] Guardian, Austin [TX] American-Statesman (blog): Andrew Wakefield, the discredited British doctor whose research triggered a wave of opposition to childhood vaccines, has resigned unexpectedly from the autism center he founded in Austin, Texas. The announcement comes only a few weeks after a British regulatory agency ruled that Wakefield acted dishonestly [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Editorial: Lancet waited too long to retract autism-vaccine study</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Feb 2010 15:37:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The editorial board of the Wall Street Journal says the Lancet&#8217;s retraction of Andrew Wakefield&#8217;s 1998 vaccine study comes &#8220;about 12 years too late.&#8221; The research paper, which purported to link vaccines with autism, launched a global vaccine scare, caused vaccination rates to plummet, and triggered waves of measles outbreaks. Even as overwhelming scientific evidence [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;A future without Down syndrome?&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2010/01/11/afuture-down-syndrome-27119/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Jan 2010 22:07:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dana Goldstein, an associate editor at the Daily Beast, says improved prenatal testing could well reduce the number of secular, educated families who have children with Down syndrome. She interviews parents of kids with DS, who say they hope that doesn&#8217;t happen. An excerpt: Rachel Adams [a professor of English and American studies at Columbia [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A world with no more Down syndrome?</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2009/09/18/no-more-down-syndrome-22437/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2009 16:54:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Down syndrome]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In The Checkup blog for the Washington Post, Jennifer LaRue Huget cites a recent article by Dr. Brian Skotko and asks, &#8220;What would the world be like if there were no more people with Down syndrome?&#8221; Huget says Skotko&#8217;s observations in the Archives of Disease in Childhood resonate beyond just one genetic condition. Skotko explored [...]]]></description>
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		<title>MA legislators push broader insurance coverage for disabilities</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2009/07/27/ma-legislators-insurance-disabilities-20780/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2009 04:40:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the Boston Globe: The Massachusetts legislature is considering more than 70 bills that could mandate medical insurance coverage for people with disabilities and potentially raise healthcare costs. Among the proposals are bills that would mandate coverage for hearing aids, treatments to fix cleft palates, and wigs for cancer patients. The proposals to require coverage [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Two prenatal Down syndrome diagnoses, two perspectives</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2009/07/20/two-perspectives-20323/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2009 15:23:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the [UK] Sunday Times: Two mothers share their perspectives on deciding whether or not to terminate a pregnancy after receiving a Down syndrome diagnosis: Helena Campbell says she could not bear the thought of bringing a child into the world to suffer. She says she knew right away that terminating her pregnancy was the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Oregon couple seeks $14 million in &#8216;wrongful birth&#8217; lawsuit</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2009/06/13/wrongful-birth-lawsuit-18388/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Jun 2009 19:46:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Doctors failed to diagnose daughter&#8217;s Down syndrome prenatally, they say From the [Portland] Oregonian: A Portland couple whose 2-year-old daughter was born with Down syndrome is suing their doctor for more than $14 million to cover the cost of raising her and providing education, medical care, and speech and physical therapy. Deborah and Ariel Levy [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Writer sees &#8216;impending epidemic of disability abortions&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2009/06/08/epidemic-disability-abortions-18063/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2009 00:25:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Writing in the American Spectator, Daniel Allott assesses the potential impact of Sequenom, a California company that has promised to produce an earlier, more reliable prenatal test for Down syndrome. The introduction of Sequenom&#8217;s test to the marketplace has been delayed as a result of the alleged &#8220;mishandling&#8221; of data by its employees. &#8230;Recent developments [...]]]></description>
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		<title>In JAMA: New prenatal tests raise ethical concerns</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2009/05/27/prenatal-tests-ethical-concerns-17293/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 May 2009 14:35:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Peter A. Benn and Audrey R. Chapman in the Journal of the American Medical Association (subscription required): Benn and Chapman say noninvasive prenatal diagnosis for fetal chromosomal abnormalities are expected to be commercially available within a year. The expected introduction of such tests raises &#8220;significant ethical issues,&#8221; they say, and will require the &#8220;ill-prepared [...]]]></description>
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		<title>He worries: Could genetic testing eliminate people with autism?</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2009/05/18/ari-neeman-16663/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2009 16:24:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Newsweek magazine profiles Ari Ne&#8217;eman, the 21-year-year-old founder of the nonprofit Autistic Self-Advocacy Network. Ne&#8217;eman is a master networker who wants to convince the world that autism is not a medical mystery that needs to be cured, but rather a type of &#8220;neurodiversity&#8221; that should be accepted by society. Ne&#8217;eman, who has Asperger&#8217;s syndrome, is [...]]]></description>
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