Alison Hall

TL;DR: This document argues for a cautious expansion of the scope of prenatal screening to serious congenital and childhood disorders, only following sound validation studies and a comprehensive evaluation of all relevant aspects.

TL;DR: The challenges that expanded carrier screening might pose in the context of the lessons learnt from decades of population-based carrier screening and in thecontext of existing screening criteria are discussed.

TL;DR: Implementing risk-stratified prevention for breast and prostate cancers would require attention to the use and storage of genetic information, the development of risk assessment tools, new protocols for consent and programs of professional education and public engagement.

TL;DR: An international multidisciplinary meeting was held in May 2010 in Ickworth, United Kingdom, with the aim of setting an agenda for the development of public health in an era of genome-based and “personalized” medicine, suggesting a need to reconfigure both the focus for existing genomic research and the stage at which funding is targeted.

TL;DR: It is suggested that although genomics and molecular biosciences will undoubtedly greatly enhance the power of medicine, they will not lead to a conceptually new paradigm of medical care.