Wednesday, July 19, 2017

Chief Medical Officer of NHS Advocates for More Genomic Testing in Healthcare

In an annual report released last week, the Chief Medical Officer of the National Health Service in England advocates for more genomic testing for "an era of precision medicine."

Coverage at The Guardian here.   Home page for the report, by Dame Sally Davies, here.  The actual PDF report, here.  The report is an eight-chapter, 256-page review of clinical genomics by policy topic, such as the UK 100,000 Genome Project, rare disease, prevention, diagnosis, and precision therapeutics.

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