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Ethical issues of predictive genetic testing for diabetes.
With the rising number of individuals affected with diabetes and the significant health care costs of treatment, the emphasis on prevention is key to controlling the health burden of this disease. Several genetic and genomic studies have identified genetic variants associated with increased risk to diabetes. As a result, commercial testing is available to predict an individual's genetic risk. A...
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Since genetic testing techniques are available, they never stopped being improved over the years. Theses techniques bring a greatest knowledge of the human genome. Thus, geneticists are now capable of diagnosis of genetic conditions, identification of at-risk patients for cancer.... Although genetic testing has been a major revolution in the practice of medicine, it goes without saying that it ...
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DR. MICHAEL K1TA, UNUM Mutual: Good morning. Yesterday morning teed up some of the medical and scientific issues around genetic testing, and this morning we will have two panels on ethical issues and on legal issues around genetic testing. I’ll be introducing each speaker in succession. They will have some prepared remarks and then we will proceed to a panel discussion and some interactive line...
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Ethical issues relating to the use of the injectable contraceptive in developed and developing countries alike involve public policy decisions concerning both criteria for testing a new drug and individual choices about using a specific form of contraception approved for national distribution. Drug testing consists of an important but still evolving set of procedures. Depo-Provera is not qualit...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: QJM
سال: 1997
ISSN: 1460-2393
DOI: 10.1093/qjmed/90.7.494