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• Google Founder Now Blogging

  
  Palm PDA Handheld — Authority: 146
  Google co-founder Sergey Brin has started a blog, candidly telling of being at risk for Parkinsons Disease and plugging his wifes genetic testing start-up firm. While Brin is no stranger to news-making webcasts and online press announcements, he made a blogging debut Thursday by sharing personal musings in a post at ...
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• Genealogy Magazines Offer Valuable Insight

  
  GenWeekly — Authority: 124
  An article on BangorDailyNews.com, " Genealogy Magazine takes on genetics ," provides an in-depth review of the   Family Tree Magazine December 2009 issue and its theme, "Complete Guide to Genetic Genealogy," as the article says, "an ambitious claim." The article highlights one article in particular, "DNA Fact or ...
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• Pathway Genomics Adds Executive

  
  socalTECH.com - Southern California High Tech News — Authority: 442
  San Diego-based Pathway Genomics has added Sidney Stolz as Chief Growth Officer, the firm said this morning. According to Pathway Genomics, Stoltz joins the firm from Healthcare Solutions, where he was Executive Vice President. Stolz has also served at Towers Perrin, UnitedHealth Group, and AdvancedPCS. Pathway ...
  2 weeks ago

• Pathway Genomics: Interview

  
  ScienceRoll — Authority: 531
  Some months ago, I wrote about the importance of customer service in the life of direct-to-consumer genomic companies . After the post, Pathway Genomics contacted me and said they were excited to speak more openly about their service. They also want to educate the community on genetic testing services and what ...
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• The Incredible Value of Human Life

  
  Just in CASE — Authority: 106
  In Australia one of the biggest news stories of the last week has been the remarkable story of conjoined twins Trishna and Krishna who were successfully separated by a team of surgeons at the Royal Childrens Hospital in Melbourne on the 18th November. Two years ago the Children First Foundation brought these ...
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• Lawsuit Challenging Myriad’s BRCA1 and BRCA2 Patents Will Go Forward: Judge Rejects Defendants’ Attempts to Preclude Plaintiffs’ Day in Court

  
  PredictER Blog — Authority: 103
  Association for Molecular Pathology et al. v. United States Patent and Trademark Office, et al . (S.D.N.Y. 2009) (Civil Action No. 09-4515 RWS), known as the lawsuit against Myriad Genetics challenging its gene patents related to BRCA1 and BRCA2 will go forward. On November 1, 2009 Judge Robert Sweet handed down an ...
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• A short but glorious rant

  
  Genetic Future — Authority: 508
  Misha Angrist has a very brief but eloquent rant in response to the genomics nay-sayers in this Nature News piece on the bankruptcy of deCODE Genetics. Heres a taste: I agree: GWAS is of limited value and this probably contributed to deCODEs demise. But whatever deCODEs fate, if whole human genomes can be ...
  3 weeks ago

• I’d Rather Just Leave ‘em Alone :: Pressure to Enlarge my Breasts AND Cut Them Off

  
  ::the open end:: — Authority: 135
  It all began tonight with an   NPR article about Huntington’s disease.  Charles Sabine, a famous journalist, had a family history of HD and decided to undergo genetic testing. The test revealed that he will inevitably die from the genetic mutation and its horrific outcome.  I continued reading and was brought ...
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• Top technology trends for payers

  
  News — Authority: 127
  Health insurers will be keeping close watch on genetic testing and electronic medical records in 2010, according to the first of a planned annual series of reports from research organization ECRI Institute. Rounding out the top seven technology trends that payers should pay attention to in the new year are: Premium CT ...
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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: 532
  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 ...
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• My Gene Profile: the lamest genetic testing scam on the internet?

  
  Genetic Future — Authority: 508
  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 ...
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• GINA Becomes Effective November 21, 2009: Are You Ready?

  
  Workplace Privacy Counsel — Authority: 401
  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 ...
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• Agenda for Personalized Medicine: Answers

  
  ScienceRoll — Authority: 531
  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, ...
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• 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 ...
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• Law to prohibit misuse of genetic data

  
  Disability News | PatriciaEBauer.com — Authority: 434
  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 weeks 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: 130
  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 ...
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• Genetic Testing for Children: Would You Do It?

  
  Blogger For Hire — Authority: 406
  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 ...
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• Get genetic disorder and genetic testing information at AccessDNA.com

  
  The TIW Blog — Authority: 129
  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 ...
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• Health Insurance Company Offering 20% Discount for Members Who Want DNA Testing

  
  The Medical Quack — Authority: 532
  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 ...
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• 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.
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