Genetic counsellor (CCGC, FHGSA) in Australia. All views expressed are my own.
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📣 📣 📣 Our new paper out today in @GIMJournal on Genetic Counselling in rapid genomic testing
Link 👉 gimopen.org/article/S2949-77…
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🔥Hot off the press:
@HGSAAustralasia position statement on rapid #genomic testing in critically ill patients 🇦🇺
Out now @ejhg_journal
#AcuteCare @AusGenomics @DanyaVears @genetic_Fi @SamRoseA @BERG_MCRI 👏
👉rdcu.be/do2UM
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Hooray👏Research Thursday is back!! Today's featured article is "Australian healthcare professionals' perspectives on the ethical and practical issues associated with genomic newborn screening" onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…
@michellecao20, @SamRoseA, @DanyaVears @GCRConnect #GeneChat
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We currently have an application in to MRAC for an MBS provide number for professional genetic counselling by HGSA registered #GeneticCounsellors. Public consultation is open to all and we need your support! For details hgsa.org.au/hgsanews/public-…
#genechat @GCAustralasia
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Breaking news! HGSA has released a new Position Statement on Genetic Carrier Testing for Recessive Conditions. Many thanks to our Education, Ethics and Social Issues Committee and all who contributed to its creation. Accessible to all at hgsa.org.au/documents/item/1…
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HGSA Education Ethics and Social Issues Committee, ASGC and AACG have released a joint position statement following the recent overturning of the Roe v Wade ruling by the US Supreme Court.
hgsa.org.au/hgsanews/joint-s…
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‘I don’t like the word diversity. It ‘others’ people.’
Wow. So powerful. Thank you for this wonderful talk @JacyntaKrakouer 🙏🙏
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Kirsten Allan is a genetic counsellor with RDNow. Her role provides support to families accessing genomic testing and enables them to make informed decisions. #rarediseaseday
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Rare opportunity: We are looking for a senior scientist / clinical genomics expert! If you have a passion for helping children with rare disease and extensive experience with exome and genome analysis, join our awesome @TeamVCGS in beautiful Oz! career10.successfactors.com/…
Sam Ayres (she/her) retweeted
When health experts announced that the majority of patients in hospital are unvaccinated — but not all — some wrongly felt this supported the theory that vaccination wasn’t effective. Actually, it once again shows how INCREDIBLY EFFECTIVE vaccines are. It’s all about proportions.
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A virus isn't endemic just cos a govt minister says it is and just cos people want it to be.
The current pattern of waning vax, new immune evasive variants, and minimal public health response seem set to doom us to massive surges once or twice a year. 1\5
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The inability of our leaders to understand very simple, basic math is truly mind boggling
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A few thoughts on #Omicron and our healthcare system:
1️⃣ Our system is ALREADY overwhelmed- hundreds of thousands of people have been denied care and are waiting for critical procedures- the existing backlog will take YEARS to clear.
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Failing to ensure that every Australian has free and easy access to RAT tests will worsen the economic impact of the current outbreak. | Angela Jackson | OPINION
#covid19 #RAT #auspol theage.com.au/national/why-i…
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Tax revenue belongs to Australians. To support and deliver services that are important to our collective health, progress, or prosperity. And critically, spending tax dollars on public health is not simply a cost, it's an investment.
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When talking about #Omicron, what is “mild” for one person can be a death sentence for another. Please check your compassion and watch your ableism. ✌
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At this start of 2022, COVID is everywhere.
There are a range of things you can do to reduce the impact on yourself & your family:
1. Preventing COVID infection
2. A Home COVID Preparation Checklist
3. What to do if you & your household get COVID
4. Recovering from COVID 1/25
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Your reminder that *no* COVID test is perfectly correlated to viral shedding (e.g. whether you're infectious to others).
Let's briefly go through the thinking on this and why a 5 day isolation without testing out is a *bad idea*.
1/19
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If you're in government, & asking people to get boosters that aren't available, & use rapid antigen tests that aren't free, & telling the public that we're facing a 'mild' disease, & that masks are some sort of optional fascinators, you're not governing.
You're gaslighting.