Health care providers and insurers agree that it's in everyone's best interest to refer women for genetic testing if their family history of breast or ovarian cancer puts them at higher risk. What ...

Researchers have found that when breast cancer patients are offered pre-test genetic counseling before definitive breast cancer surgery, patients exhibited decreases in distress. Those offered ...

23andMe is already allowed to screen customers for mutations associated with an increased risk of breast cancer. Now the FDA has granted the company approval to sell a direct-to-consumer test that ...

Risk counseling after HIV test: No effect on STIs Risk-reduction counseling has no effect on developing a sexually transmitted infection when given at the time of a rapid HIV test. HealthDay News — ...