Breast Cancer Network Australia (BCNA) calls on the Government to immediately prioritise its promise to introduce a full ban on genetic discrimination ...

The federal government vows to ban life insurers from using genetic testing results to refuse cover or hike premiums, but advocates say delays to the policy are harming patients.

Five months after announcing it would ban the use of adverse genetic test results in life insurance underwriting, the ...

Almost six months have passed since the government announced a ban on genetic discrimination in life insurance, so why hasn't it been ...

Next-generation sequencing, proteomics analysis, and circulating tumor DNA demonstrate how precision medicine advances ...

Rates of genetic testing for autism and intellectual and development disorders were associated with race, gender, and insurance company.

The problem of genetic discrimination was aired during a recent debate about how the unraveling of the human genome could affect patient care in the future. "What we have now is an immense amount ...

“Our message to government is clear: deliver on what was promised and introduce legislation to ban genetic discrimination as a matter of urgency,” she said. Vicki Durston says about 5 to 10 per cent ...