Prenatal Screening, False Positives, and NYT's Coverage
On January 1, 2022, the New York Times published an article focused on the high false positive rates of micro-deletions and -duplications in non-invasive prenatal screening tests NIPS/NIPT. The articl...
6 Jan 202232min
A Conversation with a Palestinian Genetic Counselor
Hebbah Sayed-Ahmad is a Palestinian American prenatal genetic counselor. She shares her experiences as a Palestinian within the genetic counseling profession. She also discusses what has been describe...
28 Maj 202123min
Later Abortions, Reproductive Justice, and Genetic Counselors’ Obligation to Speak Up
Certified genetic counselor Jordan Brown follows up on Katie Sagaser’s tweets exhorting genetic counselors to speak up for the importance of access to abortions in the third trimester and also to advo...
22 Apr 202116min
Addressing Health Disparities in Sickle Cell Disease
Certified genetic counselor Barbara W. Harrison discusses how racism impacts the health disparities in Sickle Cell Disease, gene therapies in development, and how these developments are being received...
15 Dec 202016min
Race-Based Medicine is Bad Medicine
Elizabeth Fieg, MS, CGC expands on her recent Twitter thread, discussing the problems with using categories of race and ancestry to guide test selection in pharmacogenomics and more broadly in medical...
20 Okt 202016min
The Promise of Gene Therapy in Ocular Genetics
Naomi Wagner, MS, CGC dives into the topic of gene therapy, explaining why ocular genetics is an especially promising area for gene therapy and how discussion of gene therapy with patients is a routin...
7 Okt 202016min
NCCN Guidelines & Expanded Recommendations for Germline Testing Based on Tumor Genomic Testing Results
Karen Huelsman MS, LGC discusses recent NCCN guideline updates which expand genetic testing criteria (for high-penetrance hereditary breast and/or ovarian cancer susceptibility genes) to include any ...
4 Okt 202015min
When a NYT Article Stirs up Confusion about Reproductive Genetics
Certified genetic counselor Brianne Kirkpatrick discusses the recent New York Times article “When a DNA Test Says You’re a Younger Man, Who Lives 5,000 Miles Away.” How surprising is this story? What ...
23 Sep 20207min
