Genetics discoveries are rapidly identifying the people at greater risk for cancers and other diseases, but researchers at HealthPartners are concerned that they are happening too fast for doctors and ...

More people are turning to genetic counseling to understand their DNA and assess their risk for certain diseases. As part of ...

Genetic testing can identify more than a thousand genes that increase your risk for many chronic and often fatal diseases. Many people might go without the benefit of all that research, however, ...

The authors of new research led by the University of Exeter have warned that women who discover, outside of a clinical setting, that they carry a disease-causing variant in one of the BRCA genes ...

New laws and safeguards ensure genetic testing results from Singapore's national programme cannot be used for insurance ...

As prenatal genetic testing becomes more common, experts explain what these tests can and cannot predict, how parents should ...

PHILADELPHIA— For some patients with gastrointestinal (GI) cancers like colorectal and pancreatic cancer, chemotherapy can cause severe, sometimes life-threatening side effects in those who carry ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . A novel genetic test may provide clues to what caused a person’s sudden cardiac death. Testing can then be ...

For 10% of colorectal cancer patients, hereditary factors play a role, with higher percentages among younger patients.