Genetic Testing Has Not Resulted in Medical Overuse 
PsychCentral.com
By Rick Nauert PhD Senior News Editor The availability of genetic testing to help individuals learn their risk for a particular disease has not resulted in an overuse of costly medical care. Policymakers have questioned whether the increased ...
Genetic Test Results Do Not Trigger Increased Use of Health Services Highlight HEALTH
Genetic Testing May Not Drive Up Health Costs MedPage Today
Few Use Follow Up Services After Genetic Testing RedOrbit
FierceHealthIT  -U.S. News & World Report 
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Scientists Describe New Genetic Subtypes of Prostate Cancer 
Genetic Engineering News
Two independent exome sequencing studies have identified new genetic subtypes of prostate cancer. Presenting its findings in Nature, a University of Michigan Medical School-led team identified CHD1 mutations in 8% of heavily pretreated lethal ...
Novel Genetic Mutation Identified in up to 15 Percent of Prostate Cancer ... Newswise (press release)
Scientists find new type of prostate cancer - discovery may lead to tailored ... New York Daily News

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Genetic researchers face dilemmas with results 
Columbus Dispatch
By John Lauerman Camilla Grondahl asked genetics researcher Gholson Lyon a simple, heartbreaking question: Was she carrying a lethal gene that might kill her unborn baby? Grondahl, 29, didn't want to terminate her pregnancy, which began in 2010.

 

Genetic Fiction: A Scholar's Faves 
Duke University
Duke's Misha Angrist is a fan of both Michael Crichton and a host of authors who write genetics novels with just a bit more subtlety. Photo courtesy of jurassicpark.wikia.com. Have an opinion about this Top 5 list? Join the discussion under way on ...

 

Insight for better understanding schizophrenia's genetic basis 
Transforming The Nation's Healthcare
by admin in Aged Care, Clinical on 21 May, 2012 Assen Jablensky, Winthrop Professor of Psychiatry, School of Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences at University of Western Australia, investigates schizophrenia's links to genetics and environmental ...

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California Considers DNA Privacy Law 
Scientific American
California lawmakers are weighing a bill aimed at protecting their state's citizens from surreptitious genetic testing but scientists are voicing their growing concerns that, if passed, such a law would have a costly and damaging effect on research.

 

Genetic Test Does Not Trigger Increased Use of Health Services 
Kansas City infoZine
Washington, DC - infoZine - People have increasing opportunities to participate in genetic testing that can indicate their range of risk for developing a disease. Receiving these results does not appreciably drive up or diminish test recipients' demand ...
Genetic testing may not trigger more use of health services EurekAlert (press release)
Genetic Testing will Have Little Impact on Healthcare Costs Medical Daily

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Scientists Map Genetic Codes Of 21 Breast Cancers 
Huffington Post
By Kate Kelland LONDON, May 17 (Reuters) - Scientists have mapped the complete genetic codes of 21 breast cancers and created a catalogue of the mutations that accumulate in breast cells, raising hopes that the disease may be able to be spotted earlier ...
Study unravels the genetic codes behind breast cancer TODAYonline

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NMSU grad student wins NSF grant to help map genetic structure of chile 
Las Cruces Sun-News
The answer is probably hidden deep within the genetic code of the plant's DNA. Now, a graduate student researcher from New Mexico State University is preparing to head across the Pacific Ocean to work with other researchers in hopes of unlocking this ...

 

David Beckham: I want to coach children when I retire from playing 
Telegraph.co.uk
Speaking the 27th annual Sports Spectacular gala, which raises funds for children suffering from genetic birth defects at the Cedars-Sinai Medical Genetics Institute in Los Angeles, Beckham was what the future may hold once his days on the pitch come ...
Victoria Beckham and the Boys Go Along For David's Big Night PopSugar.com
The Beckhams out in force The Sun
The Beckham's Look Picture Perfect at Sporting Event Splash News
MyDaily UK  -Huffington Post UK  -Glamour.com 
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