Critical Essay-genetictestingwill Improvethequalityoflifebutthereareriskswhichpeoplemustconsider

Genetic testing

will improve the quality of lW but there are risks which people must consider

Genetic tests are increasingly used in our liveland they opened a deep view of the biochemical happening which is the basis for health and illness. Through genetic tests doctors could identiff rare future diseases more easily. Hereditary diseases could be recognized before outbreak and treated better. A test brings also various side effects with them which must be considered. For example employers could require a genetic test of future employees, private insurances could test their clients. To handle these side effects the government has to find solutions to protect human's personalities.

it wants to find out the reason of illness with each patient, in orde* to be able to offer effective therapy and to prevent poor health. The medicine,thou has a clear goal,

Clinically very similar diseases can have different causes, which can be examined with a genetic test directly. Many sicknesses for instance don't appear in young age, the outbreak is in adult age and therefore an examination is advisable in order to take actions before developing any serious sicknesses. A genetic test with babies would be quite meaningful. Child physicians try today in projects to determine metabolic diseases by normal blood investigations. But that is rather an excessive procedure because it takes a long. time and also the entire blood picture has to be examined after irregularities. flow important it is to be able to react promptly to diseases the example of the eightedh months old Daniel shows. Without a blood investigation after his birth he probably wouldn't be alive anymore. At first everything seemed normal. Like nearly from all babies a small blood test was taken after two days. Parents are afraid of this procedure, but for Daniel it was essential. He was one of the first babies, who participated in the so called newbom screening in Germany. A analyzer measures the concentration of certain fat metabolic products in the blood. It can register even the smallest deviations from the normal value. Daniels results showed that he has a rare metabolic illness, MCAD (Medium chain acyl coenzyme dehydrogenase), a disorder in which the body is unable to breakdown fatsito.produce energy. Thanks tg the genetic test Daniels parents knew in time and learne'd how to live with it. Even qhorf'tests like this have a positive effect in a persons future health, genetic tests in geneial must be well considered before they are part of our daily live. If employers or insurance companies start checking on their future employees or clients who might are genetically vulnerable, than people would be excluded from occupation, insurance companies could ask for high premiums from their clients which would lead to discrimination in our society. So far there is no European law, which prevents genetic discrimination for employees, whereby individual countries issued their own laws. Fourteen countries, including Great Britain and Germany, did not sign so far the human right convention of the European Council which forbids discrimination of humans due to its genetic inheritance. Therefore the Government has to provide Laws with regulations of genetic tests which must prevent discrimination and protect our personal information from industries. Genetic tests should have the aim to support each human from hereditary diseases and help developing medication for each individual person since every human being reacts differently on them as a result the quality of live will increase.

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