Re: New Technique for Fetal Gender Determination
From: art fougner, md (evsono@pipeline.com)
Tue Sep 21 16:16:14 1999
Nope!
Art
At Tue, 21 Sep 1999, DuboseTerryJ@exchange.uams.edu wrote:
>
>Folks, I ran this by the Chair of the Medical (Laboratory) Technology
>Department here at UAMS and she does not believe their claims. If this is a
>scam... at $150.00 per pop, they have about a 50/50 chance of being correct.
>If they tell the 50% when wrong, that they only claimed 95% accuracy, they
>may be getting away with this... and a lot of $$$$!
>
>Does anyone on this list(s) know of any maternal urine test that can
>accurately determine the gender of the embryo as early as 6 weeks? Even at
>25 weeks?
>
>Not only is their information biased in approach, they give no references to
>published trials... It sounds illegal to make claims like this to me, if
>they can't back it up.
>
>I deleted the Web URL from this message... I do not want to spread this sort
>of thing around until it is confirmed.
>
>Terry J. DuBose, M.S., RDMS
>Little Rock, Arkansas USA
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> Subject: RE: New Technique for Fetal Gender Determination
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> I read it and I can't think of any reason to believe that they can
>identify the gender of a child accurately from urine.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: DuBose, Terry
> Sent: Tuesday, September 21, 1999 8:30 AM
> To: Lake, Martha J; WOODS, LUGENE A; Childs, Cherry;
>Mugan, Kathleen M; Bartelt, Margaret
> Subject: FW: New Technique for Fetal Gender
>Determination
>
> Hey, can you Laboratory Scientist types tell me if there is
>any validity to the claims made by the following Web site?
> <deleted>
>
> Thanks.
>
> Terry J. DuBose, M.S., RDMS
> Director, Diagnostic Medical Sonography Program
> CHRP, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences
> Little Rock, Arkansas, USA
> 501-686-6510
> http://www.io.com/~dubose/
> http://www.uams.edu/CHRP/dmshome.htm
> http://www.obgyn.net/us/panel/panel.htm
>
> --------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Wayne.Persutte@UCHSC.edu
> To: Sonographers-Connection@Lists.UCHSC.edu
> Date: Mon, 20 Sep 1999 09:18:58 -0600
> Subject: New Technique for Fetal Gender Determination
> Message-ID:<C9DD7DA49BF9D211B58800805FA7F1F5109E89@ex3.uchsc.edu
><mailto:C9DD7DA49BF9D211B58800805FA7F1F5109E89@ex3.uchsc.edu>>
>
> Dear Fellow Listservers(?),
> Just came across the following web site and was wondering
>what you thought:
> <deleted>
> Wayne.
> Wayne H. Persutte, B.S., R.D.M.S.
> Assistant Professor
> Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology
> University of Colorado Health Sciences Center
> Campus Box E-197
> 4200 East Ninth Avenue
> Denver, Colorado 80262
> (303) 372-1026
> FAX (303) 372-1816
>
> Please note the change in e-mail address and reply to the
>new address.
--
"Of course, that's just my opinion. I could be wrong."
-----Dennis Miller
art fougner, md
SonoScan/Genetic Sciences
forest hills, ny
evsono@pipeline.com
