Why Family Caregivers Should Care for their Families' Genetic Inheritance Data
By Dr. Gordon Atherley,
Voice America
| 02. 10. 2014
[With CGS's Marcy Darnovsky]
Marcy Darnovsky, PhD, is Executive Director of the
Center for Genetics and Society.
Jeff Nisker, MD PhD FRCSC
FCAHS, is a Professor of Obstetrics-Gynaecology at the Schulich School
Medicine & Dentistry, Western University, and Scientist, Children’s
Health Research Institute. They
highlight their lives, careers and experience with family caregiving.
They describe their work with their organizations. They discuss the
benefits and risks associated with the use of families’ genetic
inheritance data for research and for medical treatment. They explain
why, and how, family caregivers should care for their families’ genetic
inheritance data when it is used for research or for medical treatment.
They say what more they would like to do and see done by government
privacy agencies, hospitals and physicians to help family caregivers
care for their families’ genetic inheritance.
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