Less than a year after 23andMe settled a lawsuit over a data breach which targeted Jewish clients, the company announced it ...

Genetic diseases in the Arab-Israeli sector – especially among Bedouin – cause 2.7 times more infant deaths than in the Jewish sector. Most of the disorders can’t be cured or even treated ...

Elana Frank, CEO and founder of the nonprofit Jewish Fertility Foundation (JFF), is on a mission to combat those numbers and ...

The nonprofit effort, whose motto is “preventing tears,” is also known as the Committee for Prevention of Jewish Genetic Diseases. The plural in the name reflects the fact that the program ...

One in four persons of Jewish descent carries a genetic disorder that could pass down to a child and often doesn't know it. If you or your partner has Jewish ancestry – even just one Jewish ...

Israel's Health Ministry mistakenly excluded a genetic disease from the official list of conditions tested for in state-funded prenatal genetic testing, potentially affecting thousands of couples ...

having worked on a campaign with his son—Siegel and his wife are the parents of three boys—that raised $1.5 million to combat a Jewish genetic disease. “I am deeply honored and energized to ...

"Those people are Jewish," Oratz told her ... Ethnic groups tend to have their own distinctive genetic disorders, such as harmful variations of the BRCA1 gene, but because Jews throughout ...

Community partners are hosting a community conversation on hereditary health risks and genetic screenings, titled “What’s In Your Genes? A Conversation about Jewish Genetic Screenings,” on April 6, ...

Sensitive genetic information – including that of many Ashkenazi Jews – will hit the market as the once thriving firm files ...