Direct-To-Consumer Testing
‘Don’t dismiss the patient’: Promises, pitfalls of at-home hormone testing
At-home medical testing, ranging from cancer screening to COVID-19 detection, may be transforming health care, but some direct-to-consumer hormone test kits have raised red flags for endocrinologists.
Direct-to-consumer testing may help identify alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency
Direct-to-consumer testing, combined with clinical follow-up, helped identify patients with undiagnosed alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency, according to data published in Chest.
Direct-to-consumer genetic tests attempt to capture the zeitgeist of personalized medicine
In this Editorial, Jeff Balser, MD, PhD, President and CEO of Vanderbilt University Medical Center and Dean of Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, discusses the challenges of interpreting commercial genetic test results to patients and reviews tools that are being developed by researchers at Vanderbilt University Medical Center to help clinicians manage patients based on their genomic information.
Direct-to-consumer genetic tests may provide false assurance to patients at risk
The advent of direct-to-consumer genetic testing has brought a complex science into the realm of mainstream culture, with more and more consumers using these tools to determine their ancestry and ethnicity.
VIDEO: Updates on direct-to-consumer genetic testing for CVD
CHICAGO — In this video exclusive, Elizabeth McNally, MD, PhD, cardiologist and director of the Center for Genetic Medicine at Northwestern University, discusses implications of straight-to-consumer genetic testing, the subject of her presentation at the Cardiometabolic Health Congress.