{"id":16558,"date":"2013-08-12T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-08-12T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/genomequebec.com\/actualites-et-publications\/new-safer-prenatal-screening-solution-could-soon-be-available\/"},"modified":"2013-08-12T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-08-12T04:00:00","slug":"new-safer-prenatal-screening-solution-could-soon-be-available","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genomequebec.com\/en\/news-and-publications\/new-safer-prenatal-screening-solution-could-soon-be-available\/","title":{"rendered":"New, safer prenatal screening solution could soon be available"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A team of researchers led by CHU de Qu\u00e9bec and Universit\u00e9 Laval, has received CAN$10.5 million from Genome Canada, the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), G\u00e9nome Qu\u00e9bec and other partners to conduct a large-scale comparative effectiveness study on non-invasive prenatal screening techniques.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Fran\u00e7ois Rousseau, professor at the Faculty of Medicine of Universit\u00e9 Laval and researcher at the CHU de Qu\u00e9bec, and his team will examine current prenatal screening practices for chromosomal conditions, such as Down syndrome, among pregnant women in Canada in order to improve screening approaches and avoid unnecessary procedures.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The research project aims at independently comparing the performances of different such approaches that involve various combinations of the available tools for screening of chromosomal conditions, as well as to evaluate the cost-effectiveness, the ethical and social aspects of this new technology and to identify and adapt the best implementation tools for users in the health care system.<\/p>\n<p><a href='\/wp-content\/uploads\/data\/nouvelle\/132_en.pdf' download>T\u00e9l\u00e9charger le document<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A team of researchers led by CHU de Qu\u00e9bec and Universit\u00e9 Laval, has received CAN$10.5 million from Genome Canada, the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), G\u00e9nome Qu\u00e9bec and other&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15426,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[294],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nouvelles"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genomequebec.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16558","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/genomequebec.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/genomequebec.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genomequebec.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genomequebec.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16558"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genomequebec.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16558\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genomequebec.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genomequebec.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genomequebec.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genomequebec.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}