From Harvard, the goals to help educate both the public and physicians on personal genetics. You can also reference some prior posts with relative information here. Further reading here will help distinguish the difference as to what is on the market today and what you can expect from various services providing genetic information.
Harvard is reaching out to help educate all on how this will impact our lives, our healthcare, before we are hit with it like a Mack truck, in other words information ahead of time. How we handle the information is up to us and of course there are always the fears of those using the information against us, GINA has helped but as time moves on like anything else, I can guess we will need more laws to protect our privacy. The school has also been active in supplying educational material to U.S. Senate office of Democratic Party nominee Barack Obama, so he's interested too. BD
A new project out of a Harvard Medical School genetics lab is trying to make sure were prepared to deal with the potential benefits and pitfalls arising from these issues.
Today’s high school and college students are important audiences, said Wu and Waring, because the personal genetics revolution will be maturing as they do, and as they take the reins of society, they’ll be the ones making the ethical, moral, and legal decisions about the technology’s use.
Among their plans is outreach to physicians, a substantial number of whom received their M.D.s before the personal genetics revolution hit. Wu said they’d like to put together an easy-to-read booklet with the basics of what’s going on, so doctors understand what’s happening when a patient walks in with a genome scan and asks for advice. As prices come down, Wu said, it may become standard medical practice for patients to get their genome scanned and kept as part of their medical records.
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