“Due in part to my medical background and to my passion for Judaism I knew that bringing JScreen to my community was something very important to me. Taking...

  At JScreen, we believe that a combination of education, access to state-of-the-art testing technology, and personalized support by qualified medical professionals are key to preventing devastating genetic diseases...

  One of the most common questions we hear at JScreen is some version of, “Are you sure that I don’t need to get my blood drawn?” The answer...

  23 years ago, this past March my husband, Jim and I lost our firstborn, Corey to Niemann-Pick Type A Disease, a severe and currently incurable neurodegenerative disorder.   ...

  Twenty-six years ago, our father was diagnosed with Gaucher disease. A “simple” broken shoulder turned into years of getting the wrong treatments and one false diagnosis after another...

  “What’s the point?” We spend a lot of time talking about how genetic testing has the potential to save lives by giving us information that can be used...

  I am a proud Previvor. I’m the daughter and granddaughter of breast cancer survivors and my father was lucky enough to discover his prostate cancer very early on....

  While walking through Target the other day, we passed a 23andMe testing kit display. I made a comment about how the display was half empty to my husband,...