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Legislators Weigh Goals of Personalized Medicine Bill

Podcast: August 30, 2010


When Barack Obama was a junior senator from Illinois he introduced legislation designed to foster the development of personalized medicine. New versions of that bill have followed, but never managed to get out of committee. The latest one, introduced in May, now faces the added dynamic of an emerging controvery over direct-to-consumer genetic tests. We spoke to attorney Dan Vorhaus, editor Genomics Law Report, about the legislative efforts, what this latest version of the bill seeks to accomplish, and whether there’s a future for direct-to-consumer genetic tests. Read More
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Now Available The Burrill Report
August 2010

The August issue of The Burrill Report is now available. 
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Podcast Drug Recalls Soar

Bowman Cox, managing editor for The Gold Sheet, discusses the record number of drug recalls in 2009. Listen Now

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