{
  "id": 2323,
  "url": "http://jme.bmj.com/cgi/content/short/52/7/500?rss=1",
  "title": "Ethics briefing",
  "summary": "Further action against genetic discrimination Australia has taken a decisive step in protecting its citizens from the harms of ‘genetic discrimination’. A new amendment to the Disability Discrimination Act will make it illegal for life insurers to charge higher rates or refuse cover based on a person’s genetic test results. 1 The reform is the result of a decade of advocacy led by researchers at Monash University. 2 The Australian Human Rights Commission welcomed the new legisl",
  "authors": "Michaux, N., Bruns, A.",
  "category": "research",
  "topics": "bias-fairness",
  "orgs": null,
  "regions": "australia",
  "published_at": "2026-07-01T15:28:26.000Z",
  "fetched_at": "2026-07-14T16:11:46.979Z",
  "source_slug": "x-journal-of-medical-ethics-bmj",
  "source_name": "Journal of Medical Ethics (BMJ)",
  "source_homepage": "https://jme.bmj.com",
  "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/2323",
  "original_url": "http://jme.bmj.com/cgi/content/short/52/7/500?rss=1",
  "evidence_status": "source-only",
  "attribution": "via ethics.ai"
}