IBM became the first major company to pledge it would not to use genetic data to determine healthcare or benefits. The news is significant because IBM is putting a stake in the ground in an area of healthcare law that is poised to become hotly debated. The move was praised by Genetic Alliance, a Washington-based [...]

Here’s a couple of e-health stories worth checking out.

First, AOL’s Steve Case announced the founding of his $500 million healthcare Revolution Health Group. Case’s partners, among others include former Secretary of State, Colin Powell.

According to Powell,
“There’s no part of American life right now that is more in need of imagination and new ideas than health [...]

The latest issue of Tissue Engineering discusses two tissue engineering techniques that could lead to the affordable, in vitro production of meat for human consumption.

While vat-grown organs have long been a staple of science fiction, and vat produced food has been featured in at least one science fiction movie, the TE paper is the first [...]