There is an association between whether or not a woman terminates a pregnancy affected by an unfamiliar fetal anomaly and the professional background of the health professional providing post-diagnostic counselling. The causal nature of this association remains to be determined.

Many internationally educated nurses (IENs) find it difficult to reinstate themselves in their profession after migration. This article explores factors contributing to the success and failure of IENs to reestablish professional careers. The article discusses a study involving 39 IENs in 5 focus groups and 10 interviews. In all, 29 interviews are held with other stakeholders. IENs encounter obstacles at each stage of the migration process. New strategies are required to assist IENs to reenter the workforce. Given the consistent predictions of an extreme nurse shortage, it is important that the brain waste of immigrant nurses be minimized.

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Information about the prenatal exclusion test for Huntington's disease (HD) The families Nine of the 10 couples who subsequently underwent exclusion testing were married and one couple married between their first and second tests. All couples were specifically counselled about the exclusion test at least once in the preconception period by the same geneticist and on a second occasion by the same or another geneticist. Four consultands had the exclusion test explained on three occasions before undergoing chorionic villus sampling (CVS). In addition to receiving oral explanations, consultands were give a leaflet prepared by the United Kingdom Association to Combat Huntington's Disease, which gives details on the working of both presymptomatic and prenatal exclusion tests.Details of the families and exclusion test outcomes are given in the table. It is notable that in nine out of 10 families, the mother was at 50% risk of being an HD gene carrier. As expected, the consultands were either primiparous or of low parity and the mean maternal age of 29 years was increased in keeping with an often stated preference to defer having children until it could be shown that consultands had a low chance of transmitting the