Discussions

There has been much discussion recently on the new guidelines for the treatment of blood cholesterol. But these discussions have largely missed two key words in the new guidelines: “patient preference.” This is an important transformation in guideline attitude, and here’s why.

Ontario is proposing a change to the Ontario Human Rights Code aimed at protecting people’s genetic information from being used by insurance companies and employers. This would allow more people to have genetic testing done, for health or research purposes—testing they would possibly not do if they had to disclose the test results to insurers.