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Genetic test and insurance, now UK has a five-years' breathing space (the Times)

 
  October, 29 2001 16:09
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CO-OPERATIVE Insurance Society has given warning about the danger of a “genetic time-bomb?should the industry not take advantage of the government-imposed five-year moratorium on the use of genetic-test results and prevent the emergence of an underclass of people deemed too risky for cover.

Full story in the London Times (Oct 29, 2001).


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