Cohen is the author of the new book Supreme Inequality: The Supreme Court's 50-Year Battle for a More Unjust America In 2010, Pamela Fink, an employee of a Connecticut energy company, made a new kind ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. BOSTON (SHNS) – In 2013, Robyn Biggs’s aunt tested positive for a genetic mutation that increased her risk of breast, ovarian, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON — Lawmakers have agreed to make it illegal for employers and insurance companies to deny applicants jobs and health care coverage because DNA tests show they are genetically disposed to a ...

The American Society of Human Genetics (ASHG) applauds yesterday's passage of S-201, the Genetic Non-Discrimination Act, in a 222-60 vote by the Parliament of Canada's House of Commons. Because of ...

The federal Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act prevents health insurers and employers from discriminating against a ...