The Human Genome Project was a collaborative venture to map the entirety of human DNA. It finished in 2003, and in the 17 years since, we’ve luckily avoided falling into a society that uses genetic ...

BARTON, Australia, Feb. 6 (TNSres) -- The Australian Medical Association issued the following news release: The Australian Medical Association has called for an end to genetic discrimination in life ...

Myth: Federal laws like the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) protect employees from genetic discrimination in the workplace. Fact: The extent of federal protection against genetic discrimination ...

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 ...

The National Institutes of Health has awarded Alan R. Sanders, a psychiatrist at Evanston Northwestern Healthcare Research Institute, near Chicago, a grant for a five-year study of the genetics of ...

“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 ...

On behalf of the Coalition for Genetic Fairness, the undersigned organizations, representing patients, people with disabilities, consumers, women, health and health professional and civil rights ...

President signs genetic anti-discrimination bill. With the culmination of more than a decade of efforts to protect Americans from genetic discrimination by employers and health insurance companies, ...

In a recent review published in the journal npj Genomic Medicine, a group of authors examined the ethical, legal, and psychosocial implications of using genetic risk information in life insurance ...