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Westminster City Council has dropped the term BAME (black, Asian and minority ethnic) from its communications, with 'global majority' as a replacement. (Pictured: City Hall).
On 20 April 2022, the Financial Conduct Authority (the “FCA”) published its final policy statement PS22/3 ‘Diversity and inclusion on company boards and executive committees’. The...
Hearing loss is a common sensory deficit in humans with intricate genomic landscape and mutational signature. Approximately 1 - 3 out of 1,000 newborns have hearing loss and up to 60% of these cases have a genetic etiology. In this study, we conducted the concurrent newborn hearing and genetic screening in 20 mutations in GJB2, GJB3, SLC26A4 and MT-RNR1 for 9,506 normal newborns (4,977 [52.4%] males) from 22 ethnic population in South China. A total of 1,079 (11.4%) newborns failed to pass the initial hearing screening, 160 (23.9%) infants failed to pass the re-screening, and 128 (1.4%) infant...