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Citizens’ Council for Health Freedom Health Freedom Minute April 19, 2016 Ask Questions Before You Biobank Health syst...

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Citizens’ Council for Health Freedom

Health Freedom Minute April 19, 2016

Ask Questions Before You Biobank Health system Kaiser Permanente has created the Kaiser Permanente Research Bank. Last week it began recruiting enrollees 18 and older with a goal of adding 280,000 more participants to the 220,000 participants they enrolled in a previous biobanking initiative. Researchers will be able to access the participants blood and their past and future electronic medical records. What should you think of this? First, if youʼre considering volunteering for this or any other biobank, read the participation contract carefully. Who will get what information about you? What are your rights? Will your DNA be sequenced and detailed in a record somewhere? Who owns that data? Can it be sold? Ask questions. “Biobanking Gone Wild,” David Pittman, POLITICO Morning eHealth, April 12, 2016.

Presented daily by Twila Brase, President, Citizens’ Council for Health Freedom. The Health Freedom Minute is now heard in 42 states: Mornings M-Th at AM1280 (The Patriot) in MN and 91.5 AM WHKC (FreedomFM) in OH, afternoons on American Family Radio, and daily on the Bott Radio Network.

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