Rachel Horton

Aug 29, 2024 | nature.com | Anneke Lucassen |Rachel Horton

Newborn screening programmes aim to identify those babies who will go on to develop a condition, so that they can be offered early treatment or intervention to change the course of the disease. Many countries globally have national screening programmes, and although the number and type of conditions included in these programmes varies considerably, most babies will test negative as the conditions screened for are rare.

Dec 7, 2023 | nature.com | Rachel Horton

AbstractNews stories and patient-facing material about genetic tests are often illustrated by images, but the content of such images and the messages they propagate are rarely scrutinised. Stock image banks were searched to identify a hundred images relating to genetic tests and analysed using a multimodal critical discourse approach, aiming to identify what the images featured, how they were composed, and what they communicated about genetic testing.

Feb 28, 2023 | bmj.com | Amit Sud |Rachel Horton |Aroon Hingorani |Ioanna Tzoulaki

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