MedWorm provides a medical RSS filtering service. Over 6000 RSS medical sources are combined and output via different filters. This feed contains the latest medical blog items that have been tagged with 'genetic discrimination'. Sat, 03 Sep 2011 02:28:21 +0100 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1461022&cid=t_103871_87_f&fid=35052&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F%7Er%2FWomensBioethicsBlog%2F%7E3%2F295348916%2Fgina-is-now-law-of-land.html Finally! The Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act has been signed into law. More info here, there, and everywhere. Oh, and here too. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] (Source: Women's Bioethics Blog) Women's Bioethics Blog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1461022 Wed, 21 May 2008 21:29:49 +0100 1461022 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1416169&cid=t_103871_87_f&fid=34825&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.wesleyjsmith.com%2Fblog%2F2008%2F05%2Foutlawing-genetic-discrimination.html Well, this is long overdue. Congress overwhelmingly passed, and the president will sign, a bill outlawing genetic discrimination in employment and insurance. From the story:The bill passed with overwhelming support in the House on a 414-1 vote, a week after being approved by a 95-0 vote in the Senate. The only member of Congress to vote against the bill was Rep. Ron Paul, R-Texas. President Bush has promised to sign it.But the nearly unanimous support for the measure masks a hard-fought 13-year battle to pass the bill. Health insurers and employers groups fought the measure vigorously, and ultimately secured some changes to the bill. House GOP leaders, who viewed some provisions as anti-business, blocked it from reaching the floor until Democrats took power last year.The bill has strong su... Secondhand Smoke blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1416169 Fri, 02 May 2008 18:39:00 +0100 1416169 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1393767&cid=t_103871_87_f&fid=35052&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F%7Er%2FWomensBioethicsBlog%2F%7E3%2F276264048%2Fblog-post.html The Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act (GINA) is finally coming up for a Senate vote, according to Michael Stebbins of Scientists & Engineers for America. Senator Tom Coburn (R-OK) has had... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] (Source: Women's Bioethics Blog) Women's Bioethics Blog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1393767 Wed, 23 Apr 2008 16:22:48 +0100 1393767 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1255110&cid=t_103871_87_f&fid=35052&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F%7Er%2FWomensBioethicsBlog%2F%7E3%2F240970211%2Fgenetic-discrimination-in-eye-of.html Yesterday's NYT ran a front-page article by Amy Harmon about genetic discrimination. Some people who could potentially benefit from genetic testing are deciding not to be tested (or to be tested "off... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] (Source: Women's Bioethics Blog) Women's Bioethics Blog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1255110 Mon, 25 Feb 2008 20:14:37 +0100 1255110 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=908778&cid=t_103871_131_f&fid=35743&url=http%3A%2F%2Fthegenesherpa.blogspot.com%2F2007%2F09%2Fgenetic-disease-isnt-she-too-old-for.html You know, it never seems to amaze me. I received a phone call from my friend at a very solid academic training program in internal medicine. He said that he saw a patient the other day who had an unusually low Good and Bad Cholesterol, a high triglyceride level and a big liver. While he was in morning report (This is where doctors present the patients they admit from the night before) he presented this young lady. She was a 30 something year old woman who had a cholesterol level that was off the wall. Normally a premenopausal woman would have an HDL of 50 or 60, maybe even 70. Her LDL (bad cholesterol) would be perhaps 100. If she had familial hypercholesterol levels perhaps even as high as 200. But what he found was just the opposite.Her good cholesterol was less than 10, her bad choleste... Gene Sherpas: Personalized Medicine and You blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=908778 Fri, 28 Sep 2007 00:09:00 +0100 908778 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=844123&cid=t_103871_131_f&fid=35743&url=http%3A%2F%2Fthegenesherpa.blogspot.com%2F2007%2F09%2F1000-genomes-coming-soon.html I have been looking at the genome of Craig Ventner. What Surprises me is that we haven't do this sooner. If you haven't heard the diploid genotype of Craig Ventner is up. And several of my buddy bloggers have posted on it. Blaine posted on it here and has a nice wrap up.From The Canadian site The Globe and MailMost experts predict that routinely reading individual genomes will become a reality within five years as the technology to unravel the six billion chemical units that make up DNA gets faster and cheaper. Kathy Siminovitch, director of genomic medicine at Toronto's Mount Sinai Hospital and the Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute, noted that the first Human Genome Project rang in at roughly $1-billion (U.S). But with the new generation of "ultra-fast" DNA sequencing machines that have... Gene Sherpas: Personalized Medicine and You blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=844123 Wed, 05 Sep 2007 23:30:00 +0100 844123 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=821660&cid=t_103871_131_f&fid=35743&url=http%3A%2F%2Fthegenesherpa.blogspot.com%2F2007%2F08%2Floaded-for-bear.html Just wanted to give a shout out to David Hamilton from Venture Beat who wrote about Navigenics a while ago. To me whether 23andMe has a competitor or not does not matter. All that it sounds like is another non-clinical company trying to be clinical..........From his article"In other words, Navigenics essentially intends to get people to have their genomes scanned in a rough-and-ready fashion — in other words, they’ll scan your genes with chips that look for single-letter variations in the genetic code, instead of laboriously reading it out letter by letter — and then to match up what they find with the latest information on the diseases to which your genes might predispose you. Navigenics so far seems focused on the question of what your genes might say about disease, whereas 23andMe... Gene Sherpas: Personalized Medicine and You blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=821660 Fri, 24 Aug 2007 18:38:00 +0100 821660 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=758077&cid=t_103871_131_f&fid=35743&url=http%3A%2F%2Fthegenesherpa.blogspot.com%2F2007%2F07%2Fwikipedia-meets-genetics.html I just received an email from one of my readers today. Trip said " am med student at Univ of KY, interested in medical genetics and have been reading your blog.........I am recommending http://www.snpedia.com/ for a blog post on the gene sherpa" Well Trip....You Asked for it, You got it..... As they say on that old Toyota commercial....First I would like to mention that my friend Bertalan over at ScienceRoll commented on this Yesterday. He did an excellent job. Also SNPedia has their own blog although there are only 2 posts so far.....So Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms (SNPs) are little genetic changes, much like letters in a word. There is some data out there which shows taht when readign a senetnce letters in the middle of a word do not alter the readers undertsanding. This could be the ... Gene Sherpas: Personalized Medicine and You blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=758077 Tue, 24 Jul 2007 23:03:00 +0100 758077 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=502947&cid=t_103871_131_f&fid=34989&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.b5media.com%2F%7Er%2Fb5media%2FGeneticsHealth%2F%7E3%2F104566928%2F On March 14, 2007, Dr. Francis Collins, Director of the National Human Genome Research Institute, testified before the House of Representatives Committee on Ways and Means. Here’s an excerpt of his testimony entitled, The Threat of Genetic Discrimination to the Promise of Personalized Medicine (pdf): As you can see, the science of genomic medicine is rocketing forward. But fear of genetic discrimination threatens to slow both the advance of such groundbreaking biomedical research and the integration of the fruits of that research into our nation’s health care. If individuals continue to worry that they will be denied health insurance or refused employment because they have a predisposition to a particular disease, they may forego genetic testing that could help guide medical p... Genetics and Health blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=502947 Mon, 26 Mar 2007 22:29:37 +0100 502947 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=482213&cid=t_103871_131_f&fid=34976&url=http%3A%2F%2Ftalk.dnadirect.com%2F2007%2F03%2F14%2Fpart-ii-interview-with-elizabeth-varga-dvt-awareness-genetic-discrimination%2F Many people who call us about testing for genetic risks, such as thrombophilia testing, are concerned about genetic discrimination. As a result, they’re looking for ways to test anonymously and keep their test results off their medical record. How do you respond to such concerns? I would first recommend that people become fully informed about the [...] (Source: DNA Direct Talk) DNA Direct Talk blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=482213 Wed, 14 Mar 2007 18:53:50 +0100 482213 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=482221&cid=t_103871_131_f&fid=34976&url=http%3A%2F%2Ftalk.dnadirect.com%2F2007%2F02%2F09%2Fkaren-rothenberg-on-genetic-privacy-issues%2F Karen Rothenberg, currently dean of the University of Maryland School of Law, has "made something of a specialty of the intersection of medicine, science and the law," In addition to being the founding director of the school's Law and Health Care program, she had a big stint at the NIH. So, it's not surprising that she testified last week before the House about the Genetic Information Non-Discrimination Act (GINA). What she has to say is very thoughtful, as she's been steeped in these issues longer than most (actively studying them for 13 years). The Baltimore Sun has an interview which everyone should read, no matter which side of GINA you fall on, and especially if you're undecided: "All in the DNA: Q/A with Karen Rothenberg" (Source: DNA Direct Talk) DNA Direct Talk blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=482221 Fri, 09 Feb 2007 23:24:52 +0100 482221