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		<title>Obit: Paul Steven Miller, law professor and disability advocate</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2010/10/21/paul-steven-miller-30351/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Oct 2010 15:05:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the New York Times: After graduating at the top of his class at Harvard Law School in the 1980s, Paul Steven Miller was rejected by more than 40 law firms before he was able to find work. The reason: Miller was born with achondroplasia, a form of dwarfism. One hiring partner told him that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;American Idol&#8217; contestant builds awareness for Tourette&#8217;s</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Apr 2010 18:21:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Freelancer Anne Miller, writing in the Washington Post, says &#8216;American Idol&#8217; contestant Dave Pittman is part of of a rising movement of people with Tourette&#8217;s syndrome who are putting a public face on the disorder. Pittman, a singer from Arkansas, performed a four-minute audition on national television earlier this year but failed to make it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Court: Sperm bank can&#8217;t be sued under products liability law</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Apr 2010 04:40:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From Legal Intelligencer/www.law.com: Ruling in the case of a girl who inherited Fragile X syndrome from sperm purchased through a sperm bank, a federal appeals court has concluded that the sperm bank cannot be sued for selling a defective product. The decision by the 3rd U.S.Circuit Court of Appeals in Donovan V. Idant Laboratories said [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Opinion: &#8216;Disability-free world may not be a better place&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2010/02/19/opinion-disability-free-world-28323/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Feb 2010 16:16:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Arthur Caplan, writing at MSNBC.com, reacts to a report by the Associated Press that genetic testing is leading to the birth of fewer and fewer children with Down syndrome and other genetic diseases in the United States. An excerpt: On a trip to Ireland a few years ago, I was struck by a number of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Scientists: Testing curbs some genetic diseases</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2010/02/18/scientists-testing-genetic-diseases-28277/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Feb 2010 23:02:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Carrier screening, embryo screening and prenatal testing are credited Hot-button issues: Abortion, embryo destruction and eugenics By Marilynn Marchione, AP/USA Today: An investigation by the Associated Press concludes that some inherited diseases are declining and others have nearly disappeared, a trend that is credited to the increased use of genetic testing either before or after [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sequenom settles lawsuit for $14 million plus stock</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2010/01/19/sequenom-settles-lawsuit-27224/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Jan 2010 18:08:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the San Diego Union-Tribune, ABC News, Reuters: Sequenom, a diagnostics testing and genetic analysis company, has announced it will pay $14 million and an undisclosed amount in stock to settle an investor class-action lawsuit over mishandling of data in the development of a potentially lucrative prenatal test for Down syndrome. The company did not [...]]]></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>Geneticist: Demand for &#8216;designer babies&#8217; will rise dramatically</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2010/01/08/designer-babies-27033/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Jan 2010 20:44:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the [UK] Times: A leading geneticist writing in the journal Nature predicts a dramatic increase in parental demand for genetically screened &#8220;designer babies&#8221; over the next decade. David Goldstein of Duke University expects to see many more couples screening embryos for genetic variations that substantially raise the risk of common conditions like diabetes, heart [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Autism research in Time&#8217;s top ten medical breakthroughs</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2009/12/15/autism-research-26648/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Dec 2009 17:30:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Time Magazine&#8217;s end-of-the-year issue names autism research as number 7 in the list of &#8220;Top 10 Medical Breakthroughs of 2009.&#8221; An excerpt: &#8230; Researchers this year identified one possible genetic clue [to the origins of autism]: Variations on a region of chromosome 5, which appear to play a crucial role in about 15% of cases [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mom asks: Should I have aborted daughter with CF?</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2009/12/13/abortion-cf-26579/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Dec 2009 09:11:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Writing in the [UK] Daily Mail, mother Deborah Dooley responds to a neighbor&#8217;s comment that she should have terminated her pregnancy rather than give birth to her daughter, who has cystic fibrosis. Daughter Flo is now 20 and is studying dance. An excerpt: Flo is bright, beautiful, funny, affectionate, clever and hard-working. Yet she is [...]]]></description>
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