Still, I didn’t relax fully until 2008, when the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act prohibited employers nationwide from requesting, requiring or purchasing genetic information, and from discriminating on the basis of that information. And if employers can get and act upon workers’ private health information, everyone will be in trouble, not just mutants like me. This legislation would put genetic information into the hands of people who probably don’t know what to do with it, or how to protect it. Advertisement Continue reading the main storyEvery year or two, I’m screened for intestinal cancers so that tumors can be caught early. Advertisement Continue reading the main storyThe Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act has helped preserve my health.

Source: New York Times March 23, 2017 19:07 UTC