{"id":6410,"date":"2017-04-07T09:34:42","date_gmt":"2017-04-07T13:34:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=6410"},"modified":"2017-04-07T09:34:42","modified_gmt":"2017-04-07T13:34:42","slug":"fda-approves-sale-of-genetic-tests-for-risk-of-alzheimers-and-other-diseases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=6410","title":{"rendered":"FDA approves sale of genetic tests for risk of Alzheimer\u2019s and other diseases"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By Meghana Keshavan for ST<em>A<\/em>T)<\/p>\n<p class=\"big-cap-wrap danger-zone\"><span class=\"big-cap\">C<\/span>onsumers will soon be able to mail a saliva sample to genetic testing company and get back data on their risk for developing diseases such as Parkinson\u2019s, late-onset Alzheimer\u2019s, and celiac disease.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2017\/04\/06\/genetic-test-alzheimers\/\" target=\"_blank\">Continue reading article here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"big-cap-wrap danger-zone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/STAT-Logo.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4372\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/STAT-Logo-300x32.png\" alt=\"stat-logo\" width=\"300\" height=\"32\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/STAT-Logo-300x32.png 300w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/STAT-Logo.png 453w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<pre style=\"border: 1px solid #eaeaea; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.4; font-family: 'Courier 10 Pitch', Courier, monospace; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px 0px 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 20px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: #ffffff; overflow: auto; white-space: pre-wrap; color: #444444; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;\"><strong>Notice<\/strong>: The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(By Meghana Keshavan for STAT) Consumers will soon be able to mail a saliva sample to genetic testing company and<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-legislative-update","category-medical-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6410","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6410"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6410\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6411,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6410\/revisions\/6411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}