Here’s what’s making health news this morning: Websites Use DNA to Create Family Trees (WSJ): Detailed … the Journal offers a quiz to test your home-remedy literacy. A Once-Unthinkable Choice for Amputees (NY Times): As artificial limbs …
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A.M. Vitals: Using DNA to Create Family Trees – Wall Street Journal
May 15th, 2012 
About DNA Testing April in review: Nutrition news focused on adrenal fatigue diets and DNA testing – Examiner
May 2nd, 2012 About DNA Testing April’s nutrition taste of the month focused on a popular drink: chocolate carrot juice. You add a teaspoon of unsweetened organic cocoa powder to a glass of carrot juice and shake or blend. Health trends of interest to seniors to highlight turning points …
Discover genetic issues through blood tests – KCTV 5
April 27th, 2012 About DNA Testing Gene mapping from home provides essential clues to your health. An in-home DNA test helped a Kansas City woman map her health history and trace her family roots. Adopted at birth, Northland mom Michelle Cole welcomed the chance to connect with her medical …
LabsDirect Launches In The UK With STI, DNA, Allergy And Health Tests – YAHOO!
March 21st, 2012 About DNA Testing The UK’s leading home sample collection lab test provider has re-launched this month and will now provide tests for STIs, Allergies, Health Conditions and DNA analysis. There are a number of reasons why an individual may feel reluctant to visit a doctor …
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No Comments »Data Lacking on Fecal DNA Test, Agency Says – MedPage Today
March 8th, 2012 About DNA Testing WASHINGTON — There’s not enough evidence to supporting using fecal DNA tests to screen for colorectal cancer in the average-risk person, according to results of a study commissioned by the Department of Health and Human Services. Nor is there …
Posted in News Tags: average, cancer, colorectal, commissioned, department, dna, health, human, risk, screen, services, study, tests, washington No Comments »Personal DNA test reveals ancestors and health risks – msnbc.com
February 23rd, 2012 About DNA Testing CHARLOTTE, N.C. – Quick, how did your great grandmother die? Most of us have no idea. So when the doctor asks you about your family health history, you’re doing well if you can go back two generations. Personal DNA testing is filling in the blanks for …
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February 13th, 2012 About DNA Testing The all-male hierarchy ignores sections of the health-care reform law that deal with well-women visits, gestational diabetes screening, human papillomavirus DNA testing, sexually transmitted infections counseling, HIV screening and counseling …
Posted in News Tags: counseling, health, hierarchy, hiv, human, papillomavirus, screening, sexually, testing, transmitted No Comments »DNA cancer screening plans unveiled – Google
January 26th, 2012 About DNA Testing Health Secretary Andrew Lansley unveiled plans to give more cancer patients access to tests that screen their DNA. The aim is to make the most of recent advances that enable cancer treatments to be tailored to individuals. Increasingly, targeted drugs are …
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January 25th, 2012 About DNA Testing At the moment the health service is just starting to offer patients genetic testing, for example to tell if they will respond to certain cancer fighting drugs. But in the future the technology is likely to be central to many areas of healthcare – from …
Search Genome as Tennis Thrice Weekly No Barrier to Decoded DNA – Businessweek
January 20th, 2012 About DNA Testing The case fueled distrust of DNA testing, she said. “People were avoiding genetic tests because they were afraid of losing their health coverage,” Slaughter said. In 2008, after 13 years of debate, President George W. Bush signed the Genetic …
Impact of erroneous DNA tests in HSA lab minimal: Gan – AsiaOne
January 18th, 2012 About DNA Testing The impact of the Health Sciences Authority’s (HSA) blunder in DNA tests related to local criminal cases is minimal. Health Minister Gan Kim Yong made this clear in a written reply to Dr Lam Pin Min, MP for Seng Kang West. In August last year, HSA’s DNA …
Insight: New DNA reader to bring promise – Reuters India
January 14th, 2012 About DNA Testing Although many bioethicists focus on the psychological harm patients might suffer when DNA tests show an elevated risk of cancer, diabetes, Parkinson’s, and other diseases, genomics information could also threaten patients’ physical health if it is misconstrued.
Posted in News Tags: bioethicists, diabetes, dna, elevated, genomics, harm, health, information, misconstrued, patients, psychological, risk, suffer, tests No Comments »New DNA reader to bring promise, perils of genetics to clinics – Reuters India
January 12th, 2012 About DNA Testing Although many bioethicists focus on the psychological harm patients might suffer when DNA tests show an elevated risk of cancer, diabetes, Parkinson’s, and other diseases, genomics information could also threaten patients’ physical health if it is misconstrued.
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