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CO: Personhood Amendent slammed by voters

Posted on November 3, 2010 by Dissent

Joseph Boven reports: Opponents of Amendment 62, Colorado’s so-called Personhood Amendment, claimed another resounding victory – this time by an overwhelming 73-27 margin. “Tonight’s victory sends a strong message that Colorado is a pro-choice state,” said Planned Parenthood spokeswoman Monica McCafferty. “Colorado trusts women, and we strongly want to uphold a woman’s constitutional right to…

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AU: How Hep C doctor ruined our lives

Posted on November 1, 2010 by Dissent

There’s a case in Australia that raises a slew of privacy, confidentiality, and health records security issues because dozens of women allege that a doctor who performed their abortions gave them Hepatitis  C. Had this occurred during another kind of surgery, women would probably feel more comfortable coming forward to identify themselves as having been…

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Ca: New legislation to beef up privacy protocols for medical information

Posted on November 1, 2010 by Dissent

Adam Bowie reports: Officials with the Horizon Health Network say new health legislation will provide better guidance for medical professionals about how they should record, access and use a patient’s personal medical information. The Personal Health Information Privacy and Access Act was proclaimed in New Brunswick on Sept. 1 – a piece of legislation that…

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U.S. Says Genes Should Not Be Eligible for Patents

Posted on October 30, 2010 by Dissent

Andrew Pollack reports: Reversing a longstanding policy, the federal government said on Friday that human and other genes should not be eligible for patents because they are part of nature. The new position could have a huge impact on medicine and on the biotechnology industry. The new position was declared in a friend-of-the-court brief filed…

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Sperm donors' privacy rights should trump rights of offspring, Vancouver court told

Posted on October 28, 2010 by Dissent

Neal Hall reports: The privacy rights of anonymous sperm donors should outweigh the constitutional rights of donor offspring, a government lawyer argued today. Leah Greathead, the lawyer representing B.C.’S attorney general, told a B.C. Supreme Court judge that Olivia Pratten has a very sympathetic claim — she wants to know details of her genetic history…

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Wisconsin hospital adds hand scans to ID patients

Posted on October 28, 2010 by Dissent

Shamane Mills of WPR reports: Hospitals in New York and San Diego are using hand scans to identify patients. Now a Wisconsin hospital is too. Patients with the same name even the same birthday are rare but it’s one of things that a new system at UW Hospital and Clinics in Madison is designed to…

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