WSJ Exposes Web Tracking Truths
August 2nd, 2010
They call it advertising. We call it *surveillance and data theft used to track and discriminate against every American in real time*. What do...
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Re: State agency swaps babies’ blood for supplies
May 11th, 2010
After using newborn babies' bloodspots without proper consent, the state of Texas is getting it wrong again.
DNA Destruction
March 9th, 2010
In the weeks before state health officials destroyed more than 5 million newborn blood samples they had stored without consent, privacy advocates, parents and...
Ethics Debate Over Blood From Newborn Safety Tests
February 8th, 2010
A critical safety net for babies — that heel prick of blood taken from every newborn — is facing an ethics attack.
Teen Screen Lawsuit Advances: Federal Court Affirms Family’s Right to Sue School
August 6th, 2008
A federal court has given the green light to a civil rights lawsuit filed by Rutherford Institute attorneys in defense of a 15-year-old Indiana...
Watching your figure? So’s the boss.
April 12th, 2008
Think your weight is nobody’s business? Try telling that to employers.
Faced with ever-soaring health insurance costs, more employers are putting wellness programs into overdrive....
Is There a Heart Attack In Your Future?
November 6th, 2007
What are the chances that you will get heart disease, or Alzheimer’s? Or that you’ll get fat? New genetic tests will soon be available...
MN Health Department Yanks Baby DNA Rule to Avoid Judge’s Parent Consent Requirements
September 12th, 2007
Minneapolis/Saint Paul The Minnesota Department of Health has suddenly and quietly withdrawn the newborn genetic screening rule which was set to be rolled out...
Privacy is true price of healthy worker discounts
August 15th, 2007
The latest fad in American health care is to give discounts to workers who are healthy. Many corporate CEOs and their benefits department managers...
Genetic conflict
April 2nd, 2007
Advocates, legislators gear up for battle in the fight to keep genetic information, testing secure from employers, insurers.
Carolina Hinestrosa was 35 when she beat...