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Genetic Testing
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Minnesota Employer
Minnesota Law on Genetic Testing
In 2008, Congress enacted the Genetic Information and Nondiscrimination Act (GINA), which prohibits genetic information discrimination in employment. 24 U.S.C. § 2000ff-1. While the passage of GINA was significant, Minnesota…
Health Law Prof Blog
Guest Blogger Professor Seema Mohapatra: Genetic Testing of College and Professional Athletes-Legal? Required?
Isaiah Austin’s basketball career is over, after he was diagnosed with Marfan Syndrome, an inherited disorder that affects about one in five thousand people.[1] Austin, the former Baylor basketball center,…
Food Safety News
KSU Researchers Develop Genetic Test to Help Detect E. coli in Beef Cattle
By News Desk
Researchers at Kansas State University in Manhattan, KS, have developed a genetic test that could help the cattle industry more rapidly and accurately detect pathogenic Shiga toxin-producing E. coli O157:H7.…
Health Law Prof Blog
Guest Blogger Professor Jonathan Kahn: Regulating Direct-to-Consumer Genomics
Consumer genomics company 23andME wants you to be able to Google your genome to find out all sorts of things, ranging from your ancestry to your ear wax type to…
Employee Benefits Law Report
Protected health information and health care plan design
On our sister blog -- Employer Law Report -- our partner Brian Hall wrote about the likely availability of an Alzheimer’s blood test, and the impact of new genetic testing in…
Reproductive Rights Prof Blog
Study Verifies Reliability of DNA Test for Fetal Genetic Disorders
The Los Angeles Times: Study calls DNA test reliable in discovering fetal disorders, by Monte Morin:The screening more accurately identifies likely cases of genetic disorders caused by extra chromosomes, like…
Reproductive Rights Prof Blog
Increased Genetic Testing of Embryos Raises Ethical Questions
The New York Times: Ethics Questions Arise as Genetic Testing of Embryos Increases, by Gina Kolata:. . . Genetic testing of embryos has been around for more than a decade, but…
Ad Law Access
FTC Announces Settlement with Makers of “Genetically Customized” Dietary Supplements and Skin Serums
By Kelley Drye
The FTC earlier this week announced settlements with two companies that sold “genetically customized” dietary supplements and skin serums through multilevel marketing. According to the FTC, distributors sent potential customers…
The Faculty Lounge
Not Your Everyday Nonpaternity Story
UPDATED BELOW From the truth is (a lot) stranger than fiction files comes this disturbing story, which interweaves—in ways that would be deemed implausible, if they appeared in a fiction…
Health Industry Washington Watch
Bioethics Panel Seeks Comments on Ethical/Legal Issues Involving “Incidental Findings” in Research and Testing
The Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues is requesting public comment on the ethical, legal, and social issues raised by “incidental findings” (e.g., information obtained from testing that was…