IBM's new policy.

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IBM's new policy barring employment discrimination based on genetic information highlights major shortcomings in the U.S. medical records system, states Kevin Schulman, professor of business administration and medicine at Duke University, Durham, N.C. The policy may be wise, but the fact that the company needed to implement it points out flaws in the current set-up. "This system exposes individual elements of...