Even though a large proportion of cancer patients carry genetic mutations that make them more susceptible to cancer, only a small percentage of them — and their family members — undergo ...

The NCCN's new resource educates patients on genetic testing for hereditary cancer risk, focusing on breast, ovarian, pancreatic, and prostate cancers. Advances in genetic technology, spurred by ...

Efforts to ease the crisis have included the development of genetic testing to identify individuals most at risk for OUD. New research, published in JAMA Network Open, questions the usefulness of ...

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 ...

Abu Dhabi's Ministry of Health and Prevention (MoHAP) announced that genetic testing will become mandatory for all Emirati couples as part of the premarital screening program starting January 2025.

a clinical diagnostic laboratory at the forefront of genetic testing, today announced its integration with Aura, the specialty diagnostics suite from leading electronic health record (EHR ...

"The potential harms deriving from a faulty genetic test for OUD include both false negatives and false positives." Andrew Kolodny, MD, an opioid policy expert at Brandeis University in ...

Genetic testing involves the detection of specific alleles, mutations, genotypes or karyotypes that are associated with heritable traits, diseases or predispositions to disease for the individual ...