The Future of Genetic Testing for Babies
How to Talk to Your Kids about Mental Health
What Happens to Your Brain after Emotional Trauma
Can Student Mental Health Days Save Lives?
How Stress Affects the Adolescent Brain
Teaching Kids to Navigate Fear and Anxiety
The Emotions That Fuel Procrastination!
How to Support Kids' Mental Health
The 10-Minute Superhero Workout
How Parents Should Approach Their Child’s Weight Gain
How to Address Mental Health with Teens
Teen Felt the One Thing She Could Control during COVID was Food
Why Eating Disorders Have Skyrocketed during the Pandemic
Meet Teen Whose Eating Issues Spiraled during the Pandemic
How Teen Brothers are Helping Peers with Mental Health Issues
Teen Brothers Share Their Song about Mental Health
Mom and Daughter Share Immune-Boosting and Healing Soups
Eating Disorder Warning Signs for Parents
When to Talk to Your Kids about Adult Content
Power Life Creator Tony Horton’s 3 Tips for Staying Healthy
Is it possible for parents to know too much when it comes to the future of their children's health?
The Doctors welcome Harvard professor and medical geneticist Dr. Robert Green to discuss the world’s first study of genetically sequencing newborns, which can possibly screen for more than 1800 health conditions. The hope of the study is that with the genetic information doctors can predict and prevent illness instead of waiting for them to develop.
Watch: Could Your Genes Be Making You Fat?
Dr. Green explains that the testing is meant to hopefully identify things people might be at-risk for during their life. The study he is running is giving people a much more detailed look at their genetic sequencing compared to any of the commercial genetic tests available on the market. He tells The Doctors that 40 percent of new parents choose not to undergo the testing, explaining that just after welcoming their child they do not want to hear bad news regarding possible health issues. He says they also express concerns about privacy and insurance discrimination for the children when they become an adult.
He goes on to explain the goal of the study is to change medicine from being reactive to proactive where doctors are predicting, reacting and preventing illness.
Watch: Genetic Testing to Select Baby’s Sex
Dr. Green believes that this type of information will be commonplace in medicine in possibly 5 to 10 years.
The Doctors polled our audience about whether they would test their child's genetics and our 76% of our online followers said yes and 24% said no. Where do you stand on genetic testing for newborns?
