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IBM calls on Congress to act on genetic nondiscrimination legislation

Published in Medical Verdicts and Law Weekly, March 1st, 2007

IBM (IBM) Chief Privacy Officer Harriet Pearson testified before the U.S. House Education & Labor Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions about the subject of genetic nondiscrimination.

IBM filed its testimony on the Genetics Information Non-Discrimination Act recently and will call on Congress to enact laws that prevent discrimination based on genetic information which is increasingly prevalent in the diagnosis and treatment of many medical conditions, as well as in research to discover the fundamental genetic mechanisms of major diseases.

In October 2005, IBM says it became the first major corporation in the world to establish a...

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Source: Medical Verdicts and Law Weekly (2007-03-01)

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