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Lockheed Martin is working with researchers at Johns Hopkins University and medical informatics firm Sage Analytica to mine a "unique" set of medical records with the aim of integrating clinical and genomic data for prostate cancer research. The researchers are using Lockheed Martin's rule-based natural language processing platform, called ClinRead, to extract phenotypic descriptors from a set of clinical records tracking 33 men with metastatic prostate cancer for over 15 years before they succumbed to the disease. (Read Full Article)

Previous blogging on the topic of GINA GINA Aftermath - Consumers Still Wary of Genetic Tests and in the series of blogs closing following the personal genomics industry scene . Now here is some thing very interesting and very vital that is about education the common man about GINA. Johns Hopkins University’s Genetics and Public Policy Center has launched an educational effort aimed at informing the public of how their genetic data can and cannot be used under the recently enacted Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act. As part of its so-called “Project GINA,” the GPPC plans “to disseminate information” about the legislation to healthcare stakeholders and the general public, GPPC Law and Policy Director Susannah Baruch told last week. As part of its plan, the GPPC will launch a web site describing and explaining the federal law that bars health insurers and employers from discriminating based on genetic data. The website, slated to launch in September, will outline what protection...