BOSTON (SHNS) – In 2013, Robyn Biggs’s aunt tested positive for a genetic mutation that increased her risk of breast, ovarian, pancreatic and other cancers. Since her father had died of cancer, and ...

The Senate on Thursday voted 98-0 in favor of a bill (S 306) that would establish protections against genetic discrimination, CQ Today reports (Swindell, CQ Today, 2/17). Under the legislation, ...

“I mentioned to a co-worker that I just found out I had the breast cancer gene,” a woman told me a few years ago. “The next thing I knew, everyone in the office was asking me, ‘How are you?’ When the ...

U.S. policymakers addressing the public’s concerns about how genetic information could be used, in different insurance-related contexts, should consider several guiding questions, say authors of a new ...

The Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act (GINA) was enacted in 2008 to protect Americans from being widely discriminated against by a then new technology: genetic testing. The law was written ...

Privacy experts are concerned about the risk of "genetic discrimination" after 23andMe, which offered a direct-to-consumer genetic testing service, filed for ...

Representative Jim McDermott (D-WA) is sponsoring bill H.R. 1815 - medical privacy, insurance Senator Paul Wellstone (D-MN) is sponsoring bill S. 346 - patient's rights, health insurance Twenty-four ...

A national legislative ban on life insurers discriminating against applicants based on genetic testing would create an opportunity for the Australian government to invest in preventive genomic ...