I had cancer as a young person and it has haunted my entire life, health insurance wise. It makes me dismayed that the proposed G.O.P bill, the Preserving Employee Wellness Programs Act , H.R.1313, would allow employers to hide behind workplace wellness programs in a ploy to obtain the genetic information of their employees, and […]
Genomics
Can Gene Testing Help Diabetes & Heart Disease?
Are diabetes, heart disease and cancer risk determined by our genes? The other night I went to a little presentation by Navigenics, where the topic of the evening centered around predictive genomics testing, genetic predisposition and the idea of personalized medicine. To my mind, the subject is not so easy to discuss because how genes […]