CNBC:

Apple employees in Silicon Valley can now get free genetic screenings for diseases from their on-site health clinics, thanks to a pilot partnership with Color Genomics.

And:

The idea is to move health care at Apple’s clinics from reactive to proactive, as genetic tests can offer a window into health risks down the line. In some cases, patients can take preventative steps to reduce their likelihood of getting a disease.

This raises the question, would you want to know what genetic testing can reveal? For me, certainly I’d want to know if there was any disease that I was highly prone to that was preventable.

But if I knew I was certain to develop a non-preventable terminal illness at a specific age, not so sure I’d want to know what was coming for me. And when.

That said, there’s far more to genetic testing than this. Interesting article.