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• CVS Caremark Launching Collaborating with Generation Health To Launch Program to Predict Patient Response for a Dozen Drugs With Genetic Testing

  
  The Medical Quack — Authority: 515
  This is the first announcement of this type I have seen.  Generation Health bills itself as a genetic benefit management company.  It seems interesting that GINA has just become effective with new provisions that prevent family history to be used as it relates back to potential discrimination in hereditary areas ...
  18 hours ago

• My Gene Profile: the lamest genetic testing scam on the internet?

  
  Genetic Future — Authority: 564
  Pharyngula , via a reader, points me to  the most aggressively bad attempt at a genetic testing product I have ever encountered , coupled with a truly horrific attitude to parenting. The tag line alone is hilariously inept: "Our Technology Spawned from Human Genome Project led by US Scientists. The Industry is ...
  2 days ago

• GINA Becomes Effective November 21, 2009: Are You Ready?

  
  Workplace Privacy Counsel — Authority: 104
  The Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act (GINA) takes effect on November 21, 2009. How does GINA impact employers? GINA does the following: (a) prohibits employers from discriminating against an employee based upon genetic information, (b) places broad restrictions on an employer’s deliberate acquisition of ...
  3 days ago

• Agenda for Personalized Medicine: Answers

  
  ScienceRoll — Authority: 472
  A few weeks ago, Pauline C. Ng, Sarah S. Murray, Samuel Levy and J. Craig Venter published a quite an interesting piece  in the October 8, 2009 issue of Nature . In this publication, they had really relevant suggestions for Direct-to-consumer genomics companies such as Navigenics or 23andMe . Now, surprisingly, ...
  3 days ago

• Australian Patent Lawyers Claim Patenting Genes Is Necessary For...

  
  Computer & Internet - computer-internet.marc8.com — Authority: 167
  Here in the US, theres an important legal battle going on over whether or not you can patent genes . Not surprisingly, were very much against such a system, which gives a total monopoly to certain companies on doing certain types of genetic testing. It also makes no sense at all, as patents are supposed to be about ...
  4 days ago

• Law to prohibit misuse of genetic data

  
  Disability News | PatriciaEBauer.com — Authority: 435
  From the New York Times:The Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act (GINA) will go into effect next weekend, prohibiting employers from requesting genetic testing or considering a person’s genetic background in hiring, firing or promotions.The law also prohibits health insurers from requiring genetic testing or ...
  4 days ago

• Genetic Tests for UK Asylum Seekers Draw Criticism – Britain uses genetic tests for asylum-seekers, drawing heat from scientists, rights groups

  
  Faisal Kutty.com — Authority: 131
  By MARIA CHENG LONDON – Britain is using genetic tests on some African asylum seekers in an effort to catch those who are lying about their nationality, drawing criticism from scientists and provoking ... Related Posts B Asylum seekers’ success rate plunges under Tory government – Number of refugee claims ...
  5 days ago

• Genetic Testing for Children: Would You Do It?

  
  Blogger For Hire — Authority: 107
  I received an interesting email on Friday. At first it looked just like any other PR pitch, those pitches that never really bother to answer the very basic question of WIIFM, or “What’s In It For Me?” But the email I received on Friday was different. It was from a company called My Gene Profile , who offers ...
  5 days ago

• Get genetic disorder and genetic testing information at AccessDNA.com

  
  The TIW Blog — Authority: 428
  AccessDNA.com is the place to go if you want to know more about genetic testing. Once you register, you will be guided through a handy questionnaire that will assess your risk of genetic disease. You can then download a report based on the answers you provided. I did this and got a 13 page report in PDF format that ...
  5 days ago

• Health Insurance Company Offering 20% Discount for Members Who Want DNA Testing

  
  The Medical Quack — Authority: 515
  This is interesting and perhaps a way of both helping educate and help the slow growing genomics testing business at the same time.  OptumHealth, a subsidiary of United Healthcare is offering the discount.  They are not covering the tests, but if patients want to have their DNA tests done, it’s a chance for a ...
  6 days ago

• New Law to Bar Misuse of Genetic Testing by Employers

  
  Business Finance & Economy - business.marc8.com — Authority: 166
  The antidiscrimination law prohibits employers from requesting genetic testing or considering someone’s genetic background in hiring, firing or promotions.
  6 days ago

• European Personalised Medicine Diagnostics Association

  
  ScienceRoll — Authority: 472
  We all know about the Personalised Medicine Coalition : The Personalized Medicine Coalition (PMC) is an independent, non-profit group that works to advance the understanding and adoption of personalized medicine for the ultimate benefit of patients. Our diverse members work together to educate opinion leaders ...
  1 week ago

• Why make it difficult to help save lives?

  
  Blogs — Authority: 162
  This morning I gave a talk at continuing medical education meeting being held here in Boston for physicians, nurse practitioners and nurses. More than 5000 people are participating in the three day meeting which includes lectures and workshops of different sizes. After the session in which I gave my talk had finished, ...
  1 week ago

• What’s In Your Genes: Do You Really Want To Know?

  
  Better Health — Authority: 583
  A little over two years ago, I confessed that I was “ just a little scared of genetic testing .” I have two young children and almost every day I see traits in them that I’m pretty sure they inherited from me whether via genes or behavior. If you’re a parent, I’m sure you can imagine that there’s a lot of ...
  1 week ago

• Research results key for understanding, interpreting genetic testing for Lonq QT Syndrome, other genetic diseases

  
  Mayo Clinic News — Authority: 418
  Results of a Long QT Syndrome study in the current issue of Circulation play an important role in understanding genetic testing’s role in diagnosing disease, according to the senior author, Michael Ackerman, M.D., Ph.D., the Mayo Clinic pediatric cardiologist who directs Mayo’s Long QT Syndrome Clinic and is the ...
  2 weeks ago

• Gene therapy. “Children who were treated with gene therapy are now able to walk and play just like any normally sighted child …”

  
  LASIK Eye Surgery — Authority: 132
  Twelve patients have received gene therapy utilizing a surgical procedure performed by Albert M Maguire MD, University of Pennsylvania Associate Professor of Ophthalmology. According to a Release from University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine: “After the first group of three young adults was treated safely, ...
  3 weeks ago

• Curse in Verse – The Sibling

  
  Authspot — Authority: 560
  The Sibling   Both have grown up, to live with HD, Their grandpa and aunty affected. They know that their dad is at risk as well, But attempts to discuss are rejected.   One sibling is eager to know of her fate, The other is keen to ignore. One feels that a family and children can wait, But the other is ...
  3 weeks ago

• Healthy diet, regular exercise can override bad genes

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 715
  Ottawa, October 26 (ANI): Simple lifestyle choices, such as following a healthy diet and regular exercise, can override bad genes, according to one of Canada’s leading genetic researchers.Robert Hegele, director of the cardiovascular genetics laboratory at the Robarts Research Institute in London, Ontario, linked ...
  3 weeks ago

• The genetic component of Alzheimer’s disease identified

  
  dementia views you can use — Authority: 129
  Here is a great dementia resource for caregivers and healthcare professinals, Here is information on being the best caregiver you can be Here are more interesting dementia brain boosting activities Destination Sante A Franco-European research team has identified two factors associated with genetic ...
  4 weeks ago

• Personalized Medicine Exposes a Gap in Medical Education

  
  ScienceRoll — Authority: 472
  Do you remember the report focusing on how young physicians at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center test their own DNA in search of genes linked to various illnesses? I’ve now just come across a great article in PLoS Medicine about how the dawning era of personalized medicine exposes a gap in medical education . ...
  4 weeks ago

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