Nicole Knight reports: A young woman visited a crisis pregnancy center thinking she’d get medical care at a clinic that would safeguard her privacy. She didn’t know her personal information would be used against her. When Morgen Trube was 20, she thought she was pregnant. So Trube, then a sophomore at Hawaii Pacific University, Googled “free…
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JP: 40% of genetic test firms gone, missing, but where are the data?
The Yomiuri Shimbun reports: Of 87 companies in Japan confirmed by the government to be engaged in genetic testing services in fiscal 2012, a total of 29 had stopped operating, mainly due to bankruptcy, as of January this year, The Yomiuri Shimbun has learned. With the situation of 10 other companies unknown, concerns have emerged…
TR: Top court rules to compensate employee fired for being HIV positive
Daily Sabah reports: In an important decision that will set the precedent for similar cases, Turkey’s Constitutional Court ruled Friday to compensate an employee who was fired from the job shortly after being diagnosed with HIV. The employee from the western province of Izmir, acknowledged with the initials T.T.A, was diagnosed with HIV in 2006….
Oregon lawmakers push to protect pot users’ info from US
Kristena Hansen reports: Oregon lawmakers worried about a nationwide crackdown on legal marijuana under President Donald Trump’s administration are rushing to protect the personal information of pot customers in case federal agents try to seize it. A bipartisan group of lawmakers is taking one of the first direct state actions in response to White House…