Illustrating the swift adoption of and escalating promotion of genetic-based tests to consumers over a recent 20-year-span, researchers reported this month that the number of DTC genetic test ads increased from 14,000 to 255,000 (about an 18-fold increase) between 1997 and 2016. The results were published in the Journal of the American Medical Association.
Physicians and hospitals accepted $12.9m in payments in 2016 from laboratory companies to help promote the tests, according to Lisa...