The counseling that goes along with testing for breast cancer risk genes can be delivered just as effectively over the phone as in person, and at lower cost, according to new research. Researchers ...

Eye color, dimples, freckles and height are only a few of the traits that might be inherited from a parent or other family member. Depending on family medical history, one also might be more at risk ...

As part of the Department of Housing and Urban Development’s changes to HECM counseling, all HECM counselors will need to pass an exam to demonstrate their knowledge of reverse mortgages. In ...

Risk counseling after HIV test: No effect on STIs Risk-reduction counseling has no effect on developing a sexually transmitted infection when given at the time of a rapid HIV test. HealthDay News — ...

Health care providers and insurers agree that it's in everyone's best interest to refer women for genetic testing if their family history of breast or ovarian cancer puts them at higher risk. What ...

Researchers at Moffitt Cancer Center have found that when breast cancer patients are offered pre-test genetic counseling before definitive breast cancer surgery, patients exhibited decreases in ...

HealthDay News — Only about one-third of women receive genetic counseling before they undergo testing for BRCA mutations, and patients who receive genetic counseling beforehand display better ...

Robert M. Taylor, a psychologist and psychotherapist who co-wrote the Taylor-Johnson Temperament Analysis Test used as a tool in marriage and family counseling, has died. He was 88. Taylor, a former ...