Tracing your health roots
Buckholtz, A.Tracing your health roots.Washington Post, 16 November 2004.
"Many health professionals -- including U.S. Surgeon General Richard H. Carmona -- believe that these medical family histories, with their potential for preventing or mitigating disease, are critical elements in medical care.Carmona's office, in partnership with the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) and other agencies of the Department of Health and Human Services, has just launched a free Web-based software package to help families track their medical histories....
"The new software too, 'My Family Health Portrait,' (available at http://www.hhs.gov/familyhistoryhttp://www.hhs.gov/familyhistory ), is intended to help individuals organize health information into a printout that can be taken to the family doctor and placed in the medical record.The software guides users through a series of screens to help them compile information about six common ailments (including heart disease, cancer, and diabetes) as well as other conditions, all of which may have a genetic basis."