"Personalized" Medicine Comes to Mt. Sinai

By ACSH Staff — Sep 20, 2007
A September 20, 2007 piece by Elizabeth Solomont quotes ACSH's Dr. Whelan wondering about the implications of genetic screening for disease risk: Even those who described themselves as supportive of preventative medicine said there is a question of cost. "No one really knows where this is going," the president of the American Council on Science and Health, Elizabeth Whelan, said. "It really is going to take a new commitment to spending on prevention."

A September 20, 2007 piece by Elizabeth Solomont quotes ACSH's Dr. Whelan wondering about the implications of genetic screening for disease risk:

Even those who described themselves as supportive of preventative medicine said there is a question of cost.

"No one really knows where this is going," the president of the American Council on Science and Health, Elizabeth Whelan, said. "It really is going to take a new commitment to spending on prevention."