http://www.ourbodiesourblog.org/blog/2007/09/selling-women-fear-through-genetic-testing-ad Daily dose of women's health news and media analysis Fri, 12 Mar 2010 05:57:22 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 http://www.ourbodiesourblog.org/blog/2007/09/selling-women-fear-through-genetic-testing-ad/comment-page-1#comment-195 Rachel Wed, 19 Sep 2007 10:45:57 +0000 http://ourbodies.s467.sureserver.com/?p=352#comment-195 Hilary, thanks for your comment, and you're exactly right - if the screening test doesn't yield useful information for most people, or you can't really do anything useful with the results, screening the masses is generally therefore not useful. Hilary, thanks for your comment, and you’re exactly right – if the screening test doesn’t yield useful information for most people, or you can’t really do anything useful with the results, screening the masses is generally therefore not useful.

]]> http://www.ourbodiesourblog.org/blog/2007/09/selling-women-fear-through-genetic-testing-ad/comment-page-1#comment-194 Hilary Wed, 19 Sep 2007 02:35:26 +0000 http://ourbodies.s467.sureserver.com/?p=352#comment-194 When I took an epidemiology class taught by a doctor from the CDC, she said one of the important qualities of a good screening exam is that you can do something useful with the information. I can see possibly doing MRIs on someone who tests positive, but I just don't see why to test the masses. When I took an epidemiology class taught by a doctor from the CDC, she said one of the important qualities of a good screening exam is that you can do something useful with the information. I can see possibly doing MRIs on someone who tests positive, but I just don’t see why to test the masses.

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