Genetic Testing - Some states cracking down.

California Public Health regulators have just taken to task 13 firms advertising genetic analysis to the public. The state Department of Public Health sent the cease-and-desist letters last week following an investigation spurred by consumer complaints about the tests' accuracy and cost, a department spokeswoman said Monday. The New York State Department of Health issued similar notices to nearly two dozen testing companies in April. The FDA has not issued notices at all. I have recommended avoiding any genetic testing offered outside teaching hospitals, because of the poor underlying science, and the likelihood of false positive tests; also the inability of the medical profession to know what to do with the results of such tests. They are innapropriate at best and dangerous otherwise.