Even though the terms genetics and genomics are often interchanged, they are two different concepts. The term genetics refers to the study of single genes and their connection to traits that are passed on from one generation to the next. Genomics describes the study of all of the genes of...

Dr. Charis Eng, MD, Ph.D., Chair and Founding Director of the Genomic Medicine Institute states that "Evaluation of family health history still remains to be the gold standard in personal disease risk assessment," With the advancement in human genome mapping, monumental strides in its application to healthcare have also been...

Current research indicates that there is a push toward the preparation of speech language pathologists (SLPs) to work with individuals with specific disorders, with a large focus on children diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder (Burnett, 2014). Given the increased prevalence of a diagnosis of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) within the...

Criner, Cordova, Sternberg & Martinez (2011) worked on the National Emphysema Treatment Trial (NETT), a large-scale multi-center prospective randomized controlled trial that compared various types of treatment for emphysema. It investigated the effects that various treatments have on short- and long-term survival, including pulmonary rehabilitation and lung volume reduction therapy,...

Genetic screening is the process of sequencing the human genome with the bid of finding out genetic anomalies, differences and mutations that may prove important in the life of an organism. With the improvement in technologies like gene splicing and gene mapping with the aid of other technologies like the...