{"id":874,"date":"2007-02-06T23:58:59","date_gmt":"2007-02-06T16:58:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/?p=874"},"modified":"2007-02-06T23:58:59","modified_gmt":"2007-02-06T16:58:59","slug":"ibm-supports-genetic-antidiscrimination-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/computer\/ibm-supports-genetic-antidiscrimination-bill\/","title":{"rendered":"IBM supports genetic antidiscrimination bill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>For the rest of the story <a href=\"http:\/\/news.com.com\/IBM+supports+genetic+antidiscrimination+bill\/2100-1028_3-6155073.html?tag=alert\">click here\u00c2\u00a0<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>IBM, one of the world&#8217;s largest employers, on Tuesday endorsed federal legislation that would make it unlawful to discriminate on the basis of a person&#8217;s genetic code.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.com.com\/Knowledge+is+power%2C+but+can+you+handle+it\/2100-11393_3-6070927.html\" title=\"Knowledge is power, but can you handle it? -- Wednesday, May 10, 2006\">Emerging breakthroughs in gene testing<\/a> will enable doctors to tailor prescription medication to the individual and treat patients proactively against a predisposition to things like diabetes, breast cancer or heart disease.<\/p>\n<p>A fear of discrimination, however, could prevent people from taking advantage of the gene testing technology. Some say that insurance companies might try to deny coverage to those with a predisposition to a costly illness, or employers could decide against hiring or promoting someone on the basis of his known genetic limitations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the rest of the story click here\u00c2\u00a0 IBM, one of the world&#8217;s largest employers, on Tuesday endorsed federal legislation that would make it unlawful to discriminate on the basis of a person&#8217;s genetic code. Emerging breakthroughs in gene testing will enable doctors to tailor prescription medication to the individual and treat patients proactively against [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,27,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer","category-government","category-watching"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/874","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=874"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/874\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}