Aetna Health Care has a page dedicated to genetics with information and statistics...rapidly growing field for physicians and patients alike...moving rapidly...and so is the cost...stands to change much of the way medicine is practiced and very soon....BD
You Should Know:
Genetic technologies have a rapidly expanding role in medical care. Scientific advancements in genetic medicine are enabling better means to diagnose disease, to predict risk, and to direct and personalize treatment.
72 percent of physicians not specializing in genetics rate their knowledge of genetics as fair to poor. There is a shortage of well-trained genetic medicine clinicians with fewer than 2,000 certified genetic counselors in United States
Fewer than 7 percent of Americans are scientifically literate. Per-prescription costs of biologic drugs increased 29 percent from 2001 to 2003 compared to 16 percent for conventional drugs during the same time period.
1,000 conditions for which genetic tests are available. and growing with a 10 percent increase in the availability of new genetic tests every year
Genetic technologies are generally expensive, and their costs tend to rise more rapidly than their conventional counterparts. A rapid increase in the availability of new biologic medications. Since 2000, biologics represent 25 percent of all new FDA-approved drugs.
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