Joanna Rudnick on a "the beginning of a new era" for high-risk women
In the Family director Joanna Rudnick is quoted in an Associated Press article today about a new study from the American Medical Association that indicates women at a high-risk of breast and ovarian cancer can benefit from ovary removal surgery.
Urgent: Help get Hereditary Breast and Ovarian Cancer Week legislation passed today!
Joanna Rudnick and In the Family ask for your support in helping FORCE and Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL) to get Hereditary Breast and Ovarian Cancer Week legislation passed by the US Congress.
Joanna Rudnick heralds "landmark victory" in ACLU/Myriad gene patenting case
In the wake of yesterday's historic court ruling against Myriad Genetics, Kartemquin's In the Family is featured in a special segment on today's All Things Considered on NPR (available to live stream here from 7pm ET).
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Judge rules in favor of ACLU in Myriad Genetic case
A U.S. District judge has ruled in favor of the ACLU in their lawsuit against Myriad Genetics today, stating that it's patents for the BRCA1 and BRCA2 gene-test “are directed to a law of nature and were therefore improperly granted.”
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In the Family screening reaches bilingual audience
Kartemquin's Emmy-nominated documentary In the Family screens in Chicago tomorrow at the Better Boys Foundation and is achieving our goal of reaching the new audiences who need to hear about the issues involved in the film by being featured in two local bilingual newspapers: Extra News and Lawndale Bilingual Newspaper.
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