People around the US, regardless of whether they live in a large city or a remote village, can now order genetic tests online to learn their inherited risks for serious diseases, such as cancer. But what do individuals do after they learn their risks? How do they find...
Errors in the ordering and interpretation of genetic tests for cancer, as well as in communicating results, are continuing to occur, and a newly published report highlighting some of these errors suggests that the nature of the mistakes are reflective of the rapid...
Digital health company provides guidance to people with genetic variants for MUTYH, FH, and Parkinson’s. NEW HAVEN, CONN. (PRWEB) JULY 23, 2019 My Gene Counsel, a digital health company that provides personalized, easy-to-understand web-based genetic...
Genetic testing has been available for decades in one form or another. But genetic testing was expensive (thousands of dollars per patient), time-consuming (results often took months to return), and limited in scope (usually one or two genes at a time). As a result,...
For over a century, parents had the option of placing a child for adoption anonymously – meaning that the child and adoptive family had little or no information about the biological parents, and few, if any, means to contact each other in the future. But the advent of...