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Re:Is the FDA Too Conservative or Too Aggressive? Analysis o... by fedups on Monday August 31, 2015 @01:47PM (#10148043)
This does highlight the effort to maintain the historic paradigm of health professionals as gatekeepers in the face of wider and easier access to health information.

Fortunately sources like snpedia.com still exist for those wanting to use their 23andme data to do their own exploring without an intermediary, should they choose.

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Re:Is the FDA Too Conservative or Too Aggressive? Analysis o... by rayiner on Monday August 31, 2015 @03:49PM (#10148686)
Nobody is gatekeeping access to health information. You can go online and try and correlate your test results with the information that's out there.

What the FDA prevented was a company profiting from selling a diagnostic service that wasn't proven.

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