by Caitlin Kingsley | Jun 26, 2019 | News
When I began seeing patients for cancer genetic counseling and testing back in the mid 1990s, one of the greatest fears our patients expressed was that genetic testing could tank their insurability. Frankly, genetic counselors shared this fear. We were entering...
by Caitlin Kingsley | Nov 18, 2014 | Genetic Journal
This week JAMA published a viewpoint on whether life insurers should have access to genetic test results and, understandably, it unearthed some long-standing fears about genetic discrimination. We do have protection from some forms of such discrimination under the...