Commentaries
FDA Proposal for Regulating Laboratory Diagnostics Could Improve Patient Care
By Rachel Sachs
Wendy Chung’s commentary last month about the FDA’s proposed draft guidance for the regulation of laboratory-developed tests (LDTs) is heavily critical of ... Read more »
The FDA Proposes Roadblocks to Laboratory Diagnostics
by Wendy Chung, MD, PhD
Associate Professor of Pediatrics (in Medicine)
Columbia University Medical Center
The American laboratory industry and its ability to serve patients is being ... Read more »
A Decade’s Worth of Gene-Environment Interaction Studies, in Hindsight
By: Erik Parens
In the early 2000s, Avshalom Caspi, Terrie Moffitt, and their colleagues published two papers, which suggested that we ... Read more »
Genetic Testing in Torts Litigation – Justice or Injustice?
By Maya Sabatello
Genetic testing to identify the susceptibility of individuals to developing specific disorders or to confirm diagnoses is becoming increasingly common in clinical ... Read more »
Alzheimer’s Disease, Biomarkers, and Suicide: Why We Need to Think About All Three Together
By Nancy Berlinger, PhD
Recently, I spoke with a seasoned health care reporter who was interested in Alzheimer’s and biomarkers because of his own family’s ... Read more »
Genetic Information Not Always Benign
Knowledge About Dementia Predisposition Reduces Cognitive Performance
December 23, 2013
By: Paul S. Appelbaum, M.D.
Ethicists and others have been concerned that the disclosure of ... Read more »
Prenatal Identification of Increased Risk for Schizophrenia
January 9, 2014
By: Josephine Johnston
The introduction in 2011 of new, highly accurate, non-invasive prenatal genetic tests garnered a significant amount of media attention. ... Read more »
The FDA and 23andMe: Overreaching and overreacting?
December 20, 2013
By: Josephine Johnston
On November 22nd, the FDA sent a Warning Letter to 23andMe ordering it to immediately discontinue marketing and ... Read more »
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Challenging Monolithic Conceptions of Complex Disorders: Schizophrenia and Autism Spectrum Disorder