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		<title>WSGSC Family Advocate Gets to Meet the President</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Susan Atkins, a WSGSC Family Advocate from Washington was invited to the  White House to help celebrate the 20th anniversary of the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act. For more information including pictures of the celebration, please click here.
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		<title>Newborn Screening Grants</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On Tuesday, July 19, the NIH announced two grant programs for newborn  screening research. The Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child  Health and Human Development, the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive  Kidney Disease, and National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication  Disorders jointly issued a funding opportunity announcement (FOA) [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Regulation of Direct to Consumer Genetic Testing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On July 19th, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) mailed letters to 14 providers of genetic tests. These companies include:

Graceful Earth Inc. Concerning the Graceful Earth Alzheimer’s Test
SeqWright DNA Technology Services, Inc. Concerning the SeqWright Genomic Profiling Service (GPS)
Interleukin Genetics, Inc. Concerning the Inerent Health
DNATraits Concerning the Ashkenazi Jews Genetic Disease Panel
CyGene Direct™ Concerning the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Accepting Abstracts for 2011 American Telemedicine Association’s Annual Meeting</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The 16th annual American Telemedicine Association’s International Meeting and Exposition will be held May 1-3, 2011 in Tampa, Florida. This conference is  the largest international meeting and tradeshow focusing exclusively on telemedicine, telehealth, and remote medical technologies.
Call for Presentations opened July 15, and abstract proposals will be accepted through September 15, 2010. Abstracts are [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.westernstatesgenetics.org/wordpress/?p=101</link>
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		<title>Accepting Abstracts for National Conference on Genomics and Public Health</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The CDC’s 4th National Conference on Genomics and Public Health is a 3-day event that will highlight best practices in public health genomics today while  preparing for the future. The conference will be held December 8-10, 2010 in Bethesda, Maryland.
Researchers, practitioners, policy makers, educators, and representatives from academia, government, health care, public health, industry, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>75th Anniversary Maternal and Child Health Federal/State Partnership Meeting</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This year’s Maternal and Child Health Federal/State Partnership Meeting will commemorate the 75th anniversary of Title V of the Social Security Act.  The meeting will be held on Wednesday, October 20th at the Hilton Washington in Washington DC. There is no registration fee to attend the meeting, but space is limited,  so please [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.westernstatesgenetics.org/wordpress/?p=99</link>
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		<title>National Coordinating Center Newsletter – June 2010</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The National Coordinating Center (NCC) has just published the June issue of their newsletter, the NCC Collaborator. It contains an article about the key informant interviews conducted within our collaborative as well as other interesting pieces written by different regional collaboratives. To view the newsletter, go to:  http://www.acmg.net/Current.pdf 
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		<link>http://www.westernstatesgenetics.org/wordpress/?p=98</link>
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		<title>Medical Foods and the Reimbursement Dilemma</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Genetics in Medicine recently published an article about payment and insurance coverage of medical foods. The article reports on results from a survey of state newborn screening representatives and a review of state policies. To access the article, click here.
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		<link>http://www.westernstatesgenetics.org/wordpress/?p=95</link>
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		<title>Dr. Laurie Seaver One of the Best Doctors in Hawaii</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Dr. Laurie Seaver, a geneticist from Hawai‘i who works closely with the WSGSC, is featured in Honolulu magazine as one of the best doctors in the state.  Although the article mistakenly credits Dr. Seaver with being the first resident medical geneticist in Hawai‘i, the rest of the article is great. To view the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.westernstatesgenetics.org/wordpress/?p=93</link>
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		<title>National Coordinating Center Newsletter – April 2010</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ The National Coordinating Center (NCC) has just published the April issue of their newsletter, the NCC Collaborator. It contains an article about the  CPT-1 DVD created by Alaska well as other interesting pieces written by different regional collaboratives. To view the newsletter, go to:  http://www.nccrcg.org/AM/Template.cfm?Section=Donate3 
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		<link>http://www.westernstatesgenetics.org/wordpress/?p=92</link>
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