The recommendations listed in this document are, whenever possible, evidence based. An
extensive evidence review was conducted for the period beginning March 2008 through …

Over the past decade, precision medicine (PM) approaches have received significant
investment to create new therapies, learn more about disease processes, and potentially …

Health care psychology researchers are interested in many questions that centre on what it
is like for people to experience physical and psychological health and illness-related …

This article offers an introduction to the use of interpretative phenomenological analysis
(IPA) to conduct research on psychological and social issues in the new genetics. Some key …

Most common chronic diseases are the result of complex interactions between multiple
genetic variants and environmental factors. Despite significant advances in the last decade …

This scientific statement addresses parents and adult caregivers (PACs) as “agents of
change” for obese children, evaluating the strength of evidence that particular parenting …

Behavior has a broad and central role in health. Behavioral interventions can be effectively
used to prevent disease, improve management of existing disease, increase quality of life …

Genomic research is transforming our understanding of the role of genes in health and
disease. These advances, and their application to common diseases that affect large …

Paternal discrepancy (PD) occurs when a child is identified as being biologically fathered by
someone other than the man who believes he is the father. This paper examines published …

Background: Identification of a genetic basis underlying certain types of cancer has led to an
increase in demand for genetic counseling about individual risks of the disease. We …