genetic tests

SAN FRANCISCO (MedPage Today) -- With more than 22 late-breaking trials, 650 abstracts, 100 live cases, and more than 3,000 presentations, the 12,000 people in attendance at this year's Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics meeting had a lot to choose from.

Genetic tests for conditions such as cystic fibrosis should be available before people become pregnant, says the government's advisory body on genetics.

(The Hastings Center) As government support for personalized medicine grows, a consumer advocate, a patient, and bioethicists explore ethical controversies.

Direct-to-consumer genetic tests, privacy, targeted cancer therapies, and Henrietta Lacks are among topics in a special issue of the Hastings center Report

NHS patients are to be offered personalised cancer treatment under a pilot scheme to carry out genetic tests on individuals' tumours.

Last fall, Sgt. Timothy Gall, an Army medic stationed at Fort Belvoir, sought clues to the multiple sclerosis and heart disease that ran in his family by looking into his DNA.

All it took was some spit and about a thousand bucks.

(American Heart Association) Postmortem testing to identify mutations associated with sudden cardiac death is less expensive than comprehensive cardiac tests for surviving relatives.

Many insurers cover comprehensive cardiac tests of surviving relatives, but few cover postmortem testing.

LONDON (AP) -- Britain is using genetic tests on some African asylum seekers in an effort to catch those who are lying about their nationality, drawing criticism from scientists and provoking outrage from rights groups....

A March of Dimes report says all 50 U.S. states now require testing of newborns for at least 21 or 29 genetic and metabolic disorders.