FROM THE JULY 2003 ISSUE

Testing Your Future

Every state in the country requires that infants be tested for a list of obscure diseases. Before long, some states could move on to DNA testing of all newborns. Now is the time to decide a critical question: How much do we want to know and when do we want to know it?

By Jeff Wheelwright, Catherine Ledner|Tuesday, July 01, 2003
RELATED TAGS: GENES & HEALTH, GENETICS
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