"Health & Medical News"

Washington — Bills to protect Americans from misuse of their genetic information and to prevent discrimination in mental health benefits attracted broad support last year but still face a tough road this year because of unresolved disputes.

Both the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act of 2007 and the House and Senate mental health parity bills have an array of co-sponsors and support. All of the measures, except the House mental parity measure, were approved by one chamber of Congress last year.

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Up to 1% of autism cases may be blamed on too much or too little of a particular strand of an estimated 25 genes on chromosome 16, according to a pair of recent papers. Understanding how this creates the developmental disorder eventually may lead to improved treatment of autistic children, including those who don’t carry these mutations.

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