Sales of Direct-to-Consumer Clinical Laboratory Genetic Tests Soar, as Members of Congress Debate How Patient Data Should be Handled, Secured, and Kept Private

Direct-to-consumer (DTC) genetic testing has been much in the news of late and clinical laboratories, anatomic pathology groups, and biomedical researchers have a stake in how the controversy plays out. While healthcare consumers seem enamored with the idea of investigating their genomic ancestry in growing numbers, the question of how the data is collected, secured, […]
Source: Dark Daily - Category: Laboratory Medicine Authors: Tags: Laboratory Pathology 23andMe 23andMe Personal Genome Service Genetic Health Risk tests anatomic pathology AncestryDNA Catherine Tucker PhD Center for Medicine in the Public Interest Chuck Schumer clinical laboratory Dark Daily dark int Source Type: news