{"id":27557,"date":"2013-01-14T17:32:21","date_gmt":"2013-01-14T17:32:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=27557"},"modified":"2013-01-14T17:32:21","modified_gmt":"2013-01-14T17:32:21","slug":"biracial-women-pushed-to-undergo-genetic-screeening-cobble-hill-hospital-focuses-on-mixed-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=27557","title":{"rendered":"Biracial women pushed to undergo genetic screeening: Cobble Hill hospital focuses on mixed race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/docs-quiz-mixed-race-women-mix-prone-disease-article-1.1237794\" target=\"_blank\">Biracial women pushed to undergo genetic screeening: Cobble Hill hospital focuses on mixed race<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\" target=\"_blank\">New York Daily News<\/a><br \/>\n2013-01-13<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"mailto:simonew@nydailynews.com\" target=\"_blank\">Simone Weichselbaum<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>As interracial families become more common, LICH docs quiz women on ethnicity<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Doctors are pushing biracial Brooklyn women to undergo genetic counseling to learn if their racial mix makes them more prone to disease.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nAs interracial families have beome more common, Dr. Millicent Comrie, Chief of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Downstate Long Island College Hospital, has urged her staff of about 40 physicians to quiz patients about their ethnic backgrounds.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nThose from multicultural backgrounds are are sent to talk with a DNA expert who maps out how their heritage could make them sick.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u201cEthnicity plays a big part in your healthcare,\u201d said Comrie naming a slew of hereditary diseases such as sickle cell anemia which plagues the black community and Tay-Sachs disease found in many Jewish families.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u201cWe can\u2019t worry about sensitivity when it comes to race. What you see isn\u2019t always what you get,\u201d Comrie said. \u201cIf we don\u2019t ask the right questions. We will come up We will come up short.\u201d&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/docs-quiz-mixed-race-women-mix-prone-disease-article-1.1237794\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biracial women pushed to undergo genetic screeening: Cobble Hill hospital focuses on mixed race New York Daily News 2013-01-13 Simone Weichselbaum As interracial families become more common, LICH docs quiz women on ethnicity Doctors are pushing biracial Brooklyn women to undergo genetic counseling to learn if their racial mix makes them more prone to disease. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,2039,8,20],"tags":[13370,1463,7291],"class_list":["post-27557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-health-medicine","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-millicent-comrie","tag-new-york-daily-news","tag-simone-weichselbaum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27557","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27557"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27557\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}