TAG of the Week:
Complete your responses by Friday 11/21 at 5pm (EST).
Thank you to one of our HS320 students for tweeting this NPR clip.
As we had studied in class, genomics has the potential to prevent and treat many chronic diseases. DNA transplantation can be possible option as a part prenatal care testing and screening.
Listen to the NPR clip here, and discuss ethical issues that this type of 'prevention' strategy can have in our society? Are we ready? Is the general public ready ? How could we (as health science professionals) prepare the general public about these options for 'prevention'?
http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2014/11/10/360342623/combining-the-dna-of-three-people-raises-ethical-questions
Thursday, November 13, 2014
Tuesday, November 4, 2014
Breast Cancer
TAG of the Week:
What is your initial reaction to this news story?
Think
back to the "In the Family' film and discuss how screening for breast
cancer risk at birth may have impacted the lives of those in the film.
If
a cost effective screening process was developed, do you think children
should be screened and all parents informed about their breast cancer
risk directly following birth? Why or why not? Do you think such
knowledge will have an impact on future health outcomes? What are the
future implications of this research?
The study done by Whittemore et al. can be found here:http://cebp.aacrjournals.
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