http://blog.crossoverhealth.com/2008/06/25/cease-and-desist-how-about-understand-and-resist/ The Next Generation of Health Care Fri, 26 Feb 2010 06:55:13 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 http://blog.crossoverhealth.com/2008/06/25/cease-and-desist-how-about-understand-and-resist/#comment-1220 Moving forward on genetic testing | The Health Care Blog Sat, 22 Aug 2009 23:05:25 +0000 http://crossoverhealth.wordpress.com/?p=185#comment-1220 [...] effort, albeit totally misguided, the California Department of Health sent “cease and desist” letters to multiple vendors who were offering genetic testing services directly to the [...] [...] effort, albeit totally misguided, the California Department of Health sent “cease and desist” letters to multiple vendors who were offering genetic testing services directly to the [...]

]]> http://blog.crossoverhealth.com/2008/06/25/cease-and-desist-how-about-understand-and-resist/#comment-487 Going Back to Cali: From ‘Cease and Desist’ to This? « Crossover Healthcare Thu, 09 Oct 2008 16:29:13 +0000 http://crossoverhealth.wordpress.com/?p=185#comment-487 [...] effort, albeit totally misguided, the California Department of Health sent “cease and desist” letters to multiple vendors who were offering genetic testing services directly to the [...] [...] effort, albeit totally misguided, the California Department of Health sent “cease and desist” letters to multiple vendors who were offering genetic testing services directly to the [...]

]]> http://blog.crossoverhealth.com/2008/06/25/cease-and-desist-how-about-understand-and-resist/#comment-390 Mr. Gunn Mon, 30 Jun 2008 18:51:39 +0000 http://crossoverhealth.wordpress.com/?p=185#comment-390 Thanks so much for your personal attention to this! I had a gut feeling that this was a misunderstanding by the regulatory officials, and your post confirms this. Mrs Nickels is clearly confusing this new SNP profiling with DTC genetic tests that have been troublesome in the past. Certainly, there are many things you can learn from SNPs that have nothing to do with disease, and so can't really be considered medicine, such as ancestry and so on. Hopefully, someone who understands the benefits of massive data sets to the public good will join the discussion, instead of leaving the decision making to the dinosaurs who will judge tomorrows decisions with yesterday's understanding. Thanks so much for your personal attention to this! I had a gut feeling that this was a misunderstanding by the regulatory officials, and your post confirms this. Mrs Nickels is clearly confusing this new SNP profiling with DTC genetic tests that have been troublesome in the past. Certainly, there are many things you can learn from SNPs that have nothing to do with disease, and so can’t really be considered medicine, such as ancestry and so on. Hopefully, someone who understands the benefits of massive data sets to the public good will join the discussion, instead of leaving the decision making to the dinosaurs who will judge tomorrows decisions with yesterday’s understanding.

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