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The precision medicine initiative proposed by President Barack Obama last week would center on a huge new biobank containing medical records and genetic information for perhaps a million Americans. It would not be created from scratch by enrolling new volunteers, however, but would instead pull together existing studies into one giant database. That’s according to several scientists familiar with the broad outlines of the project who spoke on background with ScienceInsider. The biobank would be used for studies ranging from finding new disease-gene associations to working out how to use genomic and other molecular information in routine medical care. On...

Healthcare.gov, the federal website where you sign up for Obamacare, is quietly sharing your personal information with private companies. The evidence is in the computer code on the website itself. It shows that Healthcare.gov is relaying certain information, such as your zip code, income level, pregnancy status and whether or not you smoke. That information is being shared with several third parties. DoubleClick is a Google (GOOG) subsidiary that serves up advertisements and tracks your movements online. Healthcare.gov also shares your data with Google, Twitter (TWTR, Tech30), Yahoo (YHOO, Tech30), YouTube and others. "People's private medical data should not be...

As every conservative voice has been trying to tell you since the stimulus package passed is that it was created so fast, pages upon pages of bureaucratic junk, all created for one primary purpose…..stimulus you say? Oh no, that wouldn’t be it; the main purpose was to change policies funded by lobbyists and groups of special interest. You have surely heard of the Republican Governors who are refusing specific “stimulus” money. They were refusing the certain batches of money because they required certain laws and policies to change that would end up costing their states more money in the long...