Screening

The Act not only offered grants to organizations administering screening and health services to newborns, but federal approval for states to conduct the testing and keep the results. What was noticeably absent in the Act was the matter of informed consent, whether or not these organizations intentionally withholds information from parents is not well defined in the many research on the topic. What is certain is that before parents can move toward toward greater parental control over screening, more training and education is needed for all involved. A study conducted by Jeffrey Botkin and colleagues in 2012 revealed that women were split on the question of informed consent. Mothers expressed the need to be informed of the benefits and risk associated with the NBS screening, but few were aware of hospitals sanctioning the saving and storing the results. Since mothers are not always properly informed about the testing many are shocked to learn that the government owns nor only the results but the dried blood spot (DBS)…

United States. However, the progression of prostate cancer is typically slow and does not metastasize all that often. Due to this, treatments can typically be life saving and prostate cancer deaths have declined ~35% from 1997 to 2007. This can partially be explained by lifestyle changes, hormone therapy, radiation therapy, chemotherapy, and surgical treatment; however, large scale screening using prostate specific antigen (PSA) has to account for a substantial impact on the incidence and…

Denver Developmental Screening Tool II: Explanation and Implementation The Denver Developmental Screening Tool II (DDSTII) is a revision of DDST and DDST-R and is the most widely used developmental screening tool for examining children. It was developed at the University of Colorado Medical Center in Denver, Colorado; hence it’s name. It screens a child for cognitive delays and behavioral problems from birth to 6 years of age. The sooner the delay is picked up the sooner the child can get…

Developmental disabilities are a group of conditions that cause physical, learning, language and or behavior disabilities (Thomas, Cotton, Pan, & Ratliff-Schaub, 2012). In the United States, studies have shown that about 16–18% of children in various populations have developmental disorders, yet only 20–30% of them are identified before entering school (Thomas et al, 2012). As a result of this prevalence, the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) has recommended that pediatricians use the…

A positron emission tomography (PET) scan is an imaging test used by doctors to check for the disease in the patient's body. This PET scan also can use to measure blood flow, oxygen use and can detect cancer, heart problems, brain disorders and another. PET scans use radioactive materials called tracers to find diseases in the body and it will shows how organs and tissues are working. Stacy Simon reported annual statistics reporting from the American Cancer Society shows the death rate from…

Capstone Essay/ May 2017 The human experience is very complex and our lives are undoubtedly shaped by our environmental input, which may come in the form of knowledge, in this case, Whole Genome Sequencing (WGS) for newborns. As individuals, we have a right to filter the informational input received even from the time of birth from the health care establishment. Our genetic makeup, while profound and revealing, may be so dramatically life altering that some may choose to live without knowing it…

The Cervical screening programme is perhaps, one of the most successful public health initiatives. There has been a remarkable decline in the incidences of cervical cancer following its introduction in 1988 (Peto et al, 2004). It was created as a tool which allowed detection of precancerous abnormalities within the squamous epithelium of the cervix (Cooper, 2011). The sample is usually taken by a nurse at a GP practice and then sent to a laboratory for testing (Jo’s Trust, 2016). More recently,…

Breast screening can be emotionally stressful experience for the patient. In the past decade, there has been many changes in devices used to examine and detect breast cancer in women. The purpose of these screening devices were to decreasing mortality rate in breast cancer and perform the screening within optimal time and comfort for the patient. Breast cancer is currently the leading cause of death after skin cancer in women. Women over the age of 40 are highly encouraged to have a yearly…

because observation alone is too subjective to warrant a diagnosis, screening and assessment measures have been designed to making diagnosing learning impediments more scientific and detailed. For their part, screening and assessments are two different, yet equally valuable, means of determining where student progress sits on a standard scale; which makes them ideal for collecting practical results; and consequently…

Like in the science fiction film Gattaca the genes of your offspring can be of your choosing and remove problematic defects. Genetic screening can already show differences, anomalies, or mutations. With Gen line modification all of this can go way. According to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, “Birth defects account for more than 20% of all infant deaths.” We will one day be able to change the genetic makeup of our children, the fear based on the fact that we can pick our kids,…