Research Publications and Outputs: Recent submissions
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Genomic Testing as a Lifetime Health Resource?
Published 2016-08-01If lives could be saved by being “forewarned” by a genomic test, should we perform genomic testing of all babies at birth?apid developments in genomic testing methods have made the sequencing of a person’s DNA faster and ...Open AccessArticle -
Re: The impact of communicating genetic risks of disease on risk-reducing health behaviour: systematic review with meta-analysis (Rapid Response to Hollands et al)
Published 2016-05-15Hollands et al provide an important contribution to evidence on the potential impact of DNA-based disease risk information on health behaviours. Based on the findings of their systematic review and meta-analysis, the authors ...Open AccessArticle, Letter -
Consent to Biobank Research: Facing Up to the Challenge of Globalisation
Published 2015-01-01There is broad agreement that open-ended consent to research involving banked specimens and associated data is morally justifiable. Importantly, this approach is justifiable if, and only if, clear mechanisms are in place ...Open AccessArticle, Letter -
Making Medical Knowledge by Miriam Solomon
Published 2016-01-01Robin Downie has distinguished between two enduring cognitive and practical attitudes that have determined the way that doctors and societies thought about medicine (Downie 2012). The Hippocratic tradition attached its ...Open AccessArticle, Letter -
Tuberculosis and Mental Health in the Asia-Pacific
Published 2016-05-20Objective: This opinion piece encourages mental health researchers and clinicians to engage with mental health issues among tuberculosis patients in the Asia-Pacific region in a culturally appropriate and ethical manner. ...Open AccessArticle