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Teaching Health Law

Science and medicine are popular areas of interest, but blood and cadavers, or pipettes and centrifuges, discourage some potential doctors or scientists. Some students are using law school as a vehicle for engaging in health or science policy.

Learn more about this trend in a new article, Teaching Law Students to Be Policymakers: The Health and Science Policy Workshop on Genomic Research, by NHGRI's Benjamin E. Berkman and Karen H. Rothenberg. (Read the article)

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Highlights

• Newborn Screening in the Genomic Era
  The Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, the National Human Genome Research Institute, and the NIH Office of Rare Diseases Research have sponsored Newborn Screening in the Genomic Era: Setting a Research Agenda. The meeting aimed to identify the trans-NIH research agenda that would lead to new genomics concepts and technologies for newborn screening and child health.
• The Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act of 2008: Information for Researchers and Health Care Professionals
• Guidance on the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act: Implications for Investigators and Institutional Review Boards (IRBs) [hhs.gov]

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Last Updated: April 18, 2012

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Policy and Program Analysis Branch
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Ethical, Legal and Social Implications Research Program
NHGRI Extramural Research Program

Social and Behavioral Research Branch
NHGRI Intramural Research Program

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The American Society of Human Genetics (ASHG)

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Genetics and Social Science

Genomics Law Report