A decade later, genetic map yields few new cures
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/13/health/research/13genome.html?th&emc=th
U.S. — House votes to expand national DNA arrest database
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-20005458-38.html
DNA Research
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/22/us/22dna.html
Biobanking
http://www.bioedge.org/index.php/bioethics/bioethics_article/8950/
Identity is in the details
D. Joy Riley, M.D., M.A.
Executive Director
June 2009
Privacy and research are two major concerns in discussions of biobanks. They are important in another arena as well. Whenever we are patients in a medical office or a hospital, medical records are created. Whenever we have blood, other body fluids, or tissue taken, the remnants after testing are usually stored. Neither of these facts constitutes news. Novel uses of such information and samples, however, is a newsworthy subject, even if it is seldom read in the popular press.
In 1996, the US Congress made a law, the goal of which was to protect ...read more