{"id":76617,"date":"2025-06-21T10:37:50","date_gmt":"2025-06-21T10:37:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=76617"},"modified":"2025-06-21T10:37:50","modified_gmt":"2025-06-21T10:37:50","slug":"nhs-plans-to-dna-test-all-babies-to-assess-disease-risk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2025\/06\/21\/nhs-plans-to-dna-test-all-babies-to-assess-disease-risk\/","title":{"rendered":"NHS plans to DNA test all babies to assess disease risk"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/ace\/standard\/2048\/cpsprodpb\/115d\/live\/5628d0e0-4e49-11f0-9ab5-fdee266c7472.jpg\" alt=\"A newborn baby wearing a pink top and a pink hat sleeps in a hospital cot\" width=\"584\" height=\"328\" \/><\/p>\n<p><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Every newborn baby in England will have their DNA mapped to assess their risk of hundreds of diseases, under NHS plans for the next 10 years.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/c1ljg7v0vmpo\"> Read More\u00a0<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>Every newborn baby in England will have their DNA mapped to assess their risk of hundreds of diseases, under NHS plans for&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":42427,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-76617","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/DNA-scaled.jpeg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76617","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76617"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76617\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76618,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76617\/revisions\/76618"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}