Australia has banned life insurance companies from using genetic testing information to deny or restrict policies.

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, ...

Landmark legislation proposes a statutory ban on the use of predictive genetic test results in life insurance decisions and ...

The Senate on Thursday voted 98-0 in favor of a bill (S 306) that would establish protections against genetic discrimination, CQ Today reports (Swindell, CQ Today, 2/17). Under the legislation, ...

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 ...

The passage of long-awaited legislation banning life insurers from using adverse genetic testing results to deny or limit cover is a landmark step ...

India, April 4 -- A national legislative ban on life insurers discriminating against applicants based on genetic testing would create an opportunity for the Australian government to invest in ...

New amendment to the Disability Discrimination Act will stop life insurers from charging more, refusing cover or treating ...

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 ...

BOSTON (SHNS) – In 2013, Robyn Biggs’s aunt tested positive for a genetic mutation that increased her risk of breast, ovarian, pancreatic and other cancers. Since her father had died of cancer, and ...