Genetic Testing Challenges Medical Ethics
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Advances in genetic testing are placing strains on the principle of doctor-patient confidentiality, as doctors grapple with whether to tell a patient's relatives when the patient has an inherited disease or mutation that could afflict other members of the family.    In an article in Wednesday's Journal of the American Medical Association, doctors and legal experts argued against imposing a mandatory "duty to warn" nonpatients...
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At issue is whether scientists using DNA from aboriginal populations are underselling the risks to donors.
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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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The criteria on who to test for a high-risk breast cancer gene should be reviewed, researchers suggest.
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A South Carolina case has focused attention not just on the danger of an unorthodox therapy but also on the conduct of the state medical board.
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A study by a major health-care provider seeks to deepen the understanding of how the interplay of genetics and lifestyle affect your health. By the Associated Press.
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The restoration of a blind woman's sight using foetal tissues is likely to spark ethical debate, say scientists.
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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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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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(250 sec.) The lastest trends in genetic testing.
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Your genes may know. Supercheap DNA scanning is set to jolt medicine, offering patients new insights--and painful choices.
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Scientists and consumer groups say current patents are hindering research in a field that holds great medical promise.
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More than a decade ago, a howl went up about the way new drugs were tested. Virtually all trials were limited to white males, even though some medical differences based on race are widely acknowledged.
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THE lives of the 1056 people exposed to Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease at the Royal Melbourne Hospital will never be the same. They now have a moral obligation to inform every hospital, doctor and dentist they
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The announcement that British scientists have created an embryo containing the DNA of three people has bioethicists scratching their heads.
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New tests that detect genes for common diseases are reaching the consumer market. But will they help make people healthier?