Discussions about ethics are important in many aspects of health care but are especially critical when the health care includes genetic testing. There are several aspects of genetic testing that ...

One devastating genetic disorder that exemplifies these difficult ethical and social concerns ... In summary, the choice to undergo genetic testing is a highly personal one. A person's decision ...

The advent of this commercial offer of genetic testing, raises some new and not so new ethical, legal and social issues (ELSI). In this presentation, I will describe the phenomena of DTC genetic ...

At the same time, many have raised concerns that genetic testing and sequencing reveal intensely personal and private information. As these technologies become increasingly available as consumer ...

Sharing Genetic Information To better understand the ethical difficulties associated with a condition like SMA, suppose that a couple who has one child with SMA decides to undergo genetic testing ...

The right to know and RbG studies With every year of genetic advances, predictive genetic testing moves closer to reality, triggering ethical conflicts, including the clash between the Hippocratic ...

Educational applications are not far behind, despite profound ethical issues having been largely neglected. Genetics, Ethics, and Education represents a timely, insightful, and comprehensive analysis ...

It could prevent misinterpretation of research findings of race as genetics. Using race as an easy attribute to study the effect of social and environmental issues like poverty or discrimination ...

A special report outlines opportunities to enhance justice in genomics, toward a world in which genomic medicine promotes health equity, protects privacy, and respects the rights and values of ...

The study also found that genetic testing led to specialty referrals in 70% of patients, with cardiac and gastrointestinal issues being the most common. "This study shows that taking a genetics ...

The Direct-to-Consumer (DTC) genetic testing market is a massive biotechnology industry. Millions of people take at-home genetic tests for many reasons, ranging from pure curiosity to learning about a ...

Yet, the principles of autonomy, informed consent, privacy/confidentiality, beneficence, nonmaleficence, and justice are basic to any discussion of the ethics involved in genetic testing.