Opioid misuse and specifically opioid use disorder (OUD), continues to represent a significant U.S. public health threat, with more than 6 million Americans aged 12 and older meeting the criteria for ...

I treated a 42-year-old woman with metastatic ovarian cancer. She chose not to reveal it to anyone, including her family. Should her 26-year-old younger sister have been informed, given she might have ...

Human Geneticist Dr. Neville Sanjana answers the internet’s burning questions about genetics and DNA. How are our genes related to our DNA? Does our DNA change during our lifetime? How do services ...

Genetic tests for Alzheimer’s can detect specific genes linked to the disease. In most cases, they can’t definitively confirm or predict a diagnosis, but they can provide insight into your relative ...

Myriad Genetics, Inc. MYGN recently announced improvements to the GeneSight Psychotropic test, a pharmacogenomic test for drugs used to treat mental illness. The GeneSight report will now contain ...

Genetic testing can provide valuable information to mitigate personal disease risk, but the use of genetic results in life insurance underwriting is known to deter many consumers from pursuing genetic ...

A National Institutes of Health study will evaluate whether to screen tens of thousands of healthy infants for genetic ...