Posted on 01/30/2015 4:43:52 PM PST by 9thLife
Obama can KMA !
First thing that came to mind was the experiments done in Germany during WWII
Is rahmI Bro still part of NIH?
Thank you for the “heads-up,” Nachum.
The health insurance company contracted by my employer now requires I agree to their online terms and conditions before completing a personal health questionnaire via their website OR my monthly out-of-pocket premium will increase $100.
I still have a few months to make a decision...
The way to win is not to play the game...
“... For example,“you absolutely must have recontactability,” or permission from patients to be called and asked to come into a clinic for further exams and tests. Some biobanks,such as Vanderbilt’s, do not have that consent from participants,Roden notes. ....”
I. Will. Not. Comply.
Per this part of the article, there’s only a certain area of effectivity, so I really am bothered as to why they are going to throw heaps of money toward it:
“.... Beyond creation of the biobank will be questions about how useful it will be. Many feel the promise of genomic medicine has not yet been realized. A search for common mutations underlying major diseases found that most such variants raise risks only slightly and are of little help for predicting whether an individual will develop a disease. Pharmacogenomics,or using genetic variants to determine how a patient will respond to a particular drug,has been a mixed success—such testing has not improved dosing for the blood thinner warfarin,for example.
So far,the clearest success in genomic medicine is for finding genes underlying rare diseases and for treating cancer patients,whose tumors can sometimes be genetically tested to find faults that suggest a specific drug. For that reason,the United Kingdom chose to focus on cancer and rare diseases with a project that is sequencing 100,000 patient’s genomes for medical care. ....”
What are the terms and conditions?
That you participate in this genetics stuff?
When you enrolled initially, was there a questionnaire?
If there’s -anything- fishy/coercive/restrictive in there, I’d pay the extra $100.
Ping to my comments #26 & #27.
He will not get my genome. I have been pishing on his shoes for 6 years.
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