First-tier next-generation sequencing for newborn screening: An important role for biochemical second-tier testing

There is discussion of expanding Custom Tote Bag newborn screening (NBS) through the use of genomic sequence data; yet, challenges remain in the interpretation of DNA variants.Population-level DNA variant databases are available, and it is possible to estimate the number of newborns who would be flagged as having a risk for a genetic disease (inclu

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‘The public health turn on violence against women’: analysing Swedish healthcare law, public health and gender-equality policies

Abstract This article focuses on policy and law concerning violence against women as a public health issue.In Sweden, violence against women is recently recognized as a public health problem; we label this shift “The public health turn on violence against women”.The new framing implies increased demands on the Swedish healthcare sector and its�

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Searching for collisions between mobile robot and environment

This article is focused on the search for potential collision of a moving object (as a mobile robot is) with the environment.Application of the proposed and presented method requires existence of the three-dimensional model of the environmental space.In this case, the models are Bundle generated automatically with the help of mobile measurement pla

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