Future Health Care and Pharma Keynote Speaker
Dying out of human race?
Why World Health Organisation is concerned about risks from mutation of wild viruses such as Swine Flu.
Expect major antiviral research including vaccine technology.
Lessons from Sars and Bird Flu.
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BioTech and MedTech Keynote Speaker
Why gene screening for insurance will be allowed to prevent fraud against life insurance companies.
Over the counter gene testing kits create life insurance risks for underwriters, because personal and private gene test results are not available to the insurer when assessing life insurance premiums.
The risk is that widespread requirements for gene tests by insurers could meant that people with certain genes are unable to get life or health cover, which in turn may impact things like eligibility for mortgages.
Read more: Gene Tests for Insurance – Ethical and Legal Issues