A new consensus statement recommended genetic testing for all categories of kidney diseases whenever a genetic cause is suspected and offered guidance on who to test, which tests are the most useful, ...

When Nick Lumi found out St. Luke’s University Health Network was offering free DNA testing, he thought it was a novelty, a chance to find out more about his ancestry. Instead, he learned he had a ...

In this segment, we seek answers for ethical quandaries posed by Pre-Natal Genetic Testing (which of necessity involves use of IVF) from legal doctrine, exploring the procedures’ impact on individual ...

PHILADELPHIA -- The first time the seemingly healthy woman gave birth, she went into heart failure. She recovered and went on to deliver her second child a few years later. Doctors cleared the woman ...

Researchers at Baylor College of Medicine and the Jan and Dan Duncan Neurological Research Institute at Texas Children’s Hospital (Duncan NRI) have created a new way to measure genetic variants in the ...

For Josh Henderson, 66, of Olympia, getting genetic testing was a no-brainer. “The first time I came to Fred Hutch, my oncologist suggested it,” said the retired IT manager who received a metastatic ...

On December 17, 2024, the Department of Health & Human Services, Office of Inspector General (HHS-OIG) issued its second favorable advisory opinion involving an arrangement in which a drug ...

ROCHESTER, N.Y. – October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month, and genetic testing proved to be lifesaving for the women featured in this story. Jodi Lavery discovered she had a BRCA-2 gene mutation, ...

MINNEAPOLIS — By definition, a variant of unknown significance identified in an individual with cardiomyopathy can leave physicians wondering what to do with the information. Don’t discard so-called ...

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