Faculty of Medicine and Health: Recent submissions

    • Ethical issues in reproductive genetic carrier screening 

      Dive, Lisa; Newson, A.J.
      Published 2020-01-01
      Reproductive Carrier Screening (RCS) involves testing individuals or couples to determine their likelihood of having a child with certain inherited genetic conditions. RCS raises ethical considerations, including: the ...
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    • Comparative optimism about infection and recovery from COVID-19; Implications for adherence with lockdown advice 

      Asimakopoulou, Koula; Hoorens, Vera; Speed, Ewen; Coulson, Neil S.; Antoniszczak, Dominika; Collyer, Fran; Deschrijver, Eliane; Dubbin, Leslie; Faulks, Denise; Forsyth, Rowena; Goltsi, Vicky; Harsløf, Ivan; Larsen, Kristian; Manaras, Irene; Olczak‐Kowalczyk, Dorota; Willis, Karen; Xenou, Tatiana; Scambler, Sasha
      Published 2020
      BACKGROUND: Comparative optimism, the belief that negative events are more likely to happen to others rather than to oneself, is well established in health risk research. It is unknown, however, whether comparative optimism ...
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    • The Recovery, Interpretation and Use of Ancient Pathogen Genomes 

      Duchêne, Sebastián; Ho, Simon Y W; Carmichael, Ann G; Holmes, Edward C.; Poinar, Hendrik
      Published 2020
      The ability to sequence genomes from ancient biological material has provided a rich source of information for evolutionary biology and engaged considerable public interest. Although most studies of ancient genomes have ...
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    • Early experiences of COVID-19 infected, middle-aged patients 

      Lee, Jessica; Yam, Mitchell; Young, Noel; Iredell, Jonathan
      Published 2020
      This case report describes our early radiological experiences of middle-aged patients with COVID-19 at Westmead Hospital, Sydney. We found limited relationship between initial CT imaging appearances and progression to ...
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    • Clinical evaluation of SARS-CoV-2 point-of-care tests 

      Robosa, Roselle s.; Sandaradura, Indy; Dwyer, Dominic e.; O’sullivan, Matthew v.N.
      Published 2020
      The aim of this study was to assess the analytic and clinical performance of four rapid lateral flow point-of-care tests (POCTs) for identifying SARS-CoV-2-specific antibodies. A retrospective study was conducted between ...
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