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 ...

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.

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 ...

recently updated policy statement on genetic testing for cancer susceptibility is available to download as a pdf file. The statement covers issues such as indications for genetic testing, special ...

Dept of Ethics, Philosophy and History of Medicine University Medical Centre St Radboud, PO Box 9101, 6500 HB Nijmegen, The Netherlands. Fax: + 31 24 354 02 54 The Forum on genetic testing for cancer ...

There are numerous ethical aspects associated with genetic testing, including the fact that we know how to diagnose some genetic conditions but not how to treat them, the privacy issues (for you and ...

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 ...

Aims The British Society for Genetic Medicine established a working group to review its guidance on the practical ethics of genetic testing in childhood. The review was timely, given the challenges ...

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 ...

The Ethics of Genetics in Research: Perils and Promises, a state-of-the-art national conference, responds to the need for enhancing the knowledge and application of ethical principles to genetic and ...

The center works on AI technologies, rare and undiagnosed diseases, genetics and education research, ethical issues in healthcare and health practice, Holly Tabor Ph.D. ’02, the director of SCBE ...