Was the HHS secretary’s genetic advisory panel scrapped prematurely?
By Kelly Rae Chi In September, Steven Teutsch received word that the expert panel he chaired, which advised the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) on how genetic technologies could be best integrated into health care, was to be abruptly disbanded in two weeks’ time. “We didn’t anticipate the committee would end,” says Teutsch, chief science officer of the Los Angeles County Health Department. “We were a bit surprised, because we had planned to continue this work that we had started.” Since its inception in 2002, the US Secretary’s Advisory Committee on Genetics, Health and Society (SACGHS) helped … Read more
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