Abortion is called “health care”; in reality, it is the killing of a developing human life. The slogan “my body, my choice” ...

New methods of analysis and novel markers are currently being identified to predict conditions with polygenic inheritance. These include polygenic risk scores (PRS), which are based on the presence of ...

Three out of four U.S. adults support the use of emerging technologies that estimate a future child's likelihood of developing health conditions influenced by multiple genes - such as diabetes, heart ...

Your risk score report tells you what percentile for a disease you’re in, a.k.a. how your risk of a given condition compares to the general population’s. For example, if you’re in the 90th percentile ...

Cancer is challenging to treat, yet identifying individuals with greater risk of developing disease can assist with early detection and increased treatment efficacy. There are several types of risk ...

Using polygenic risk scores along with positive family histories and breast cancer-associated gene mutations improves risk stratification for breast cancer screening. Compared with a lower polygenic ...

Coronary artery disease (CAD), or the narrowing of the coronary arteries, is the leading cause of morbidity and mortality throughout the world. Atherosclerosis, or the buildup of plaque in the ...

The results of research by scientists at University College London (UCL), Imperial College London, and the MRC Laboratory of Medical Sciences, indicate that a potentially life-changing heart condition ...

Wealthy British couples are paying tens of thousands of dollars to overseas firms to rank their IVF embryos for predicted ...

Source: Getty Images Investigators examined the predictive value of a risk score that incorporates hundreds of genetic variants. PRS could inform surveillance strategies for patients with low-risk ...