Read interesting medical ethics debate: Is direct to consumer genetic testing beneficial or harmful to individual users? to society as a whole? and does it represent a threat to privacy? https://t.co/9N9DFSy8Gs https://t.co/I5XgDqaRDR
The impacts of #DTC tests cannot be analysed outside the societal context in which they arise, + hence our question has 2 answers. If healthcare is privately funded DTC tests are likely to represent a net harm; in state-funded systems the converse is true.
Interesting read from the perspective of @UniofOxford @Cambridge_Uni students: Christian Michael Armstrong Holland et al: "Should we fear the rise of direct-to-consumer genetic testing?" https://t.co/sx6JbBqAj2 https://t.co/ML3KE4eMw3