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Genetic Exceptionalism: Medicine’s Overreliance on Genetic Testing

May 7, 2025
Genetic Testing
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Join Patients in the Fight to Save Medicaid and Social Services
February 6, 2025
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CHEK2-Associated Cancer Risk and Screening Recommendation Updates
August 19, 2024
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Join Patients in the Fight to Save Medicaid and Social Services
February 6, 2025
Advocacy News
CHEK2 Blog Post (3168 x 2020 px)
CHEK2-Associated Cancer Risk and Screening Recommendation Updates
August 19, 2024
Cancer Genetic Counseling Genetic Testing Health

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PLUGS Summit 2024

June 28, 2024
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Causation versus Susceptibility: Alzheimer’s Disease, Genetics, & APOE

June 20, 2024
Neurology News
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Financial Challenges in the Fight for Independent Genetic Counseling Services

April 11, 2024
Advocacy Genetic Counseling
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Direct-to-Consumer is Direct-to-Chaos for Rare Disease Families

February 29, 2024
Advocacy Genetic Testing
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The Value of Knowledge and the Cost of False Reassurance: Understanding the Updates to 23andMe’s BRCA Genetic Testing

January 31, 2024
Cancer Genetic Testing News
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What’s in a (Noninvasive) Name?

January 18, 2024
Genetic Testing Pregnancy
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“Dead to Me” and that gene

October 20, 2019
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Alzheimer’s Disease and Genetics

September 27, 2019
Genetic Counseling Health
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23andMe says you carry a variant in the MUTYH gene. Now what?

August 6, 2019
Cancer Genetic Counseling
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99% Accurate: What Does it Really Mean??

June 25, 2019
Genetic Testing Pregnancy
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What is a Genetic Counselor?

March 28, 2019
Genetic Counseling
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