Genetic Testing Challenges Medical Ethics
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After one of Dr. Kenneth Offit's patients died from a genetic form of breast cancer, Offit felt obliged to warn the woman's college-age daughter that she, too, might be at risk.
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A new genetic test can tell doctors which breast cancer patients need to undergo the discomfort of chemotherapy -- and suggests many women don&#39;t need to, researchers said on Friday.
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A doctor takes a risk and goes against a patient's wishes in order to save his life.
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The sequencing of James D. Watsonâs genome could be the gateway to an era of personalized genomic medicine.
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For doctors, searching out disease before it appears can also carry risks.
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PHILADELPHIA _ When the subject is stem cell research, the term embryo is not only ethically charged, but increasingly hard to define.  Now, University of Pennsylvania researchers have stretched the definition even further.
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Super-cheap genetic scanning is set to jolt medicine, offering patients new insights--and painful choices.
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Daniela Iacoboni, a genetic counselor, seeks to balance information about risk with caution about passing on serious diseases.
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Despite advances in genetic testing, the US surgeon general on Monday urged Americans to track down and record cases of cancer, heart disease and other diseases prevalent in their families.
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CHICAGO While advances in genetic testing may be beneficial, they sometimes put doctors between a rock and a hard place. If physicians find a disease that&#39;s inherited, do they warn other family members that they, too, could be affected?
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The restoration of a blind woman's sight using foetal tissues is likely to sparked ethical debate, say scientists.
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Court cases that included use of the controversial Low Copy Number DNA testing technique are to be reviewed.
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Controls are needed to ensure genetic information for research is not used by outside parties, warn experts.
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Critics say a law designed to keep medical information confidential is being overzealously applied.
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The results of genetic tests should be available to insurance companies, says a leading medical ethics expert.
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A new genetic test can tell doctors which breast cancer patients need to undergo the discomfort of chemotherapy -- and suggests many women don't need to, researchers said on Friday.
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Two genetic mutations have been identified that increase the risk of a common heart rhythm problem linked to stroke, according to researchers who have developed a test to identify people who have them.