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...policy inherently violates the privacy rights for citizens of the United States. The government will effectively be able to scan through any pirces of data it deems necessary...
...ever-perceptive eyes scan the American tundra, we find ourselves, in favor of the Cowboy junkies, William Vollman and, as always, Tonya Harding...
...going to see craziness you won't believe," says George Annas, a Boston University professor of health law. He thinks it is only a matter of time before someone sweeps up Bill Clinton's hair trimmings at a barbershop, runs a genome scan on the DNA in the hair cells and publishes the list of diseases to which the President is heir. Under current law, there is nothing Clinton or anyone else could do to stop it. Annas is worried that samples from routine blood tests on ordinary citizens could be screened and that the genetic information might eventually find...
...Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston and one of the discoverers of the defective gene. This blueprint must be recopied each time the cell divides. "Some mistakes get made," Kolodner continues. "The ((protein made by the normal gene)) is like the spell-checker on a computer. It helps to scan for errors, detect them and fix them." When the spell-checking gene is damaged in some way, mistakes start piling up in other genes. Eventually some of the genes that keep cells from dividing uncontrollably are affected and cancer arises. It most often strikes the colon, but can also occur...
...scan, EKG, DNA analysis, heart transplants, lung transplants, heart-lung transplants. The list of medical miracles stretches longer each month...