Genetic Discrimination?

The United States Senate and House have passed legislation banning discrimination on the basis of people’s genetic details. It would allow only patients and their doctors to access data obtained through genetic testing. Employers, unions and health insurance companies would be forbidden from discrimination via genetic information.
The Democratic Senator Edward Kennedy called it the “the [...]

Breast Cancer and Environmental Research Act

Folks - I don’t know if any of my readers live in Oklahoma but this is absurd. Please consider whatever action you can take via phone call, e-mail, fax to encourage Senator Coburn to get a clue. He is blocking S. 579 arguing that it is “politicizing disease research”. He likes to block bills, it [...]