He makes this written e-request, through the HR portal, which is forwarded electronically, directly to the health professional working at his facility. Company Health professional takes steps necessary to consider the request, including assessment of job duties, requiring certification from employee’s physician, assessment of the work environment, etc…

Upon reaching a decision, an appointment is made wherein the Health Professional, Manager and Employee have a private conversation, to discuss the final outcome of the Accommodation Request.

Would a disclosure made in this formal documented meeting, be considered subject to the Water Cooler exemption?
Thanks.

http://blog.eogn.com/eastmans_online_genealogy/2012/01/23andme-generates-controversy-with-new-subscription-policy.html

http://www.genomeweb.com//node/983548?hq_e=el&hq_m=1131185&hq_l=1&hq_v=131bd3495f

Always one step ahead.

Let’s see an article about this – NUgene on steroids. What legal and ethical concerns do these programs raise?

Right now PSA is a 100 million dollar market – with a better test, this market will expand.

One of Gen-Probe’s programs produced a product meant to improve PSA.

Instead of making the $50 million investment needed to run a clinical trial for a stand-alone PSA replacement, G-Pro decided to couple their product with PSA so they would not have to get additional approval from the FDA. With the money they stupidly invested in PacBio, they could have cornered and expanded the prostate screening market.

Progensa should have been designed as a screening test from the beginning.

Hindsight is always 20/20, but when you have competent people predicting the course of events and instead listen to suggestible, superficial. hype-susceptible individuals, you are heading for disaster.

This should serve as an anecdote at B-schools.

We need an article:

Where did all the phenotypic information go? Does Coriell have it? Who is collecting it? Why are we not sequencing people at hospitals with volunteer-able medical information for these sequencing projects? What is proprietary and what is not? Get your investigative reporter motors in gear, its show time.