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Wednesday, October 14, 2009
Patient Group Urges HHS Panel to Push for Oversight of Genetic Test Marketing Practices
Lisa Schlager, an outreach coordinator at Facing Our Risk of Cancer Empowered, spoke with groups in Washington DC last week and urged them to consider "federal action to monitor, regulate, and track adverse events resulting from marketing from laboratories to consumers and healthcare professionals."