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Foundation, Association Celebrate GINA Signing; Foundation Planning Workshop to Discuss GINA Implications and Opportunities
MIAMI – The Alpha-1 Foundation and Alpha-1 Association today applauded President Bush’s signing into law the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act (GINA), and began making plans to take action based on the new federal legal protections.
Under GINA, companies would no longer be able to use genetic information such as a person’s predisposition for lung disease, breast cancer, sickle cell or diabetes to make insurance or job decisions.
“Our community has been involved for more than a decade in the effort to bring this essential legislation into law,” said John W. Walsh, President and CEO of the Alpha-1 Foundation and President of the COPD Foundation. “We’re all celebrating a giant achievement today.”
