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- Author: PredictER
- Listed in: Higher Science
- Tags: health medicine policy ethics genetics bioethics
- Added on: Mar 3rd, 2008
- Country: United States
- Language: English
Predictive Health Ethics Research (PredictER) is a multidisciplinary research, policy, and public education program of the Indiana University Center for Bioethics funded by a grant from the Richard M. Fairbanks Foundation, Inc., Indianapolis.
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IndyStar - Do you want to know? Direct-to- consumer DNA tests ...
PredictER's Kimberly Quaid and Indiana University Department of Medical and Molecular Genetics' Dr. Gail Vance comment on direct-to-consumer genetic testing in today's issue of The Indianapolis Star. Quaid notes:"For a lot of genetic conditions, the...
The Best Predictive Health Ethics Blogs - June 2008
California and Direct-to-Consumer Genetic Testing:California's decision to send cease-and-desist letters to thirteen direct-to-consumer genetic testing companies (including 23andME, deCODEme, Knome, and Navigenics) ignited a blogging wild-fire of mos...
The BiDiL Debate: Can "race" serve as a proxy for groups with shared "genetic" characteristics?
Following the debate surrounding the FDA's 2005 approval of BiDiL – a drug to be marketed to treat African-Americans at risk for heart failure – David e. Winickoff and Osagie K. Obasogie propose regulatory policy for future race-specific drug dev...
Curating Your Personal Genome?
When a member of the PGP-10 and an investor in 23andMe writes about curating one's online, personal data, a lot of people listen. Unfortunately, Esther Dyson (writing in MIT's Technology Review) does not mention the decision to share medical informa...
DNA Biobanks: The Five Minutes Between Nashville and Dundee
Here at PredictER we're very interested in the attitudes of healthcare professionals regarding DNA biobanking. In fact, we recently collaborated in a study of attitudes at a local children's hospital. Thus, I was excited to read the results of simi...
