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Sailors, Marines to face random blood-alcohol tests

Filed under: screening counseling

1, any Marine or sailor with a blood-alcohol content of 0.01 or higher may be referred for counseling. Anyone who tests at 0.04 or higher will be referred to medical personnel to determine fitness for duty. … The Corps is the first among the Army …
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Newborn Baby Screening For Fragile X Syndrome FMR1 Gene Mutations

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Before newborn screening for fragile X mutations is expanded nationally, we need to better understand the impact that identification of the premutation and grey zone allele has on families and systems will need to be in place to address the counseling …
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