TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — The Florida House overwhelmingly approved legislation Wednesday that would bar life insurers from using genetic testing to deny policies.

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Legislation in Florida to bar insurance companies from using home genetic testing kits in making underwriting decisions is headed to the House floor, after a panel on...

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Florida lawmakers advanced a proposal Thursday that would bar life insurers from using information from commercially available genetic tests to deny policies or set...

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) — Soon after Christmas, one year apart, Barbara Dameron and Lundy Maxwell spat into tubes and mailed them to a genetic testing company.

Maxwell, who sent her test in February 2017, wanted to know more about her medical history. She thought she might learn more about half-siblings, connected by biological parents she had never met. She was adopted as an infant in Portsmouth in 1956, from a woman who said she could not take care of a baby.

RENO, Nev. (AP) — Jordan Stiteler joined thousands of other Nevada residents in a DNA testing program known as the Healthy Nevada Project to verify her Swedish ancestry.

But the 29-year-old Reno resident instead found out how important genetic testing can be in catching potentially big health problems early, the Reno Gazette-Journal reported earlier this month.

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison are working to expand newborn genetic screening for Amish and Old Order Mennonite communities in the state.

Researchers hope to pinpoint the unique genetic disorders affecting the Plain sect communities in Wisconsin, Wisconsin Public Radio reported. They then plan to create low-cost screening to improve current newborn genetic testing.

HELSINKI (AP) — Estonia has started offering residents free genetic profiling in a nationwide experiment aimed at minimizing risks for typical diseases and encouraging a healthier lifestyle through personalized data reports.

NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — Federal prosecutors say a New Jersey man used a purported nonprofit group to defraud Medicare out of more than $1 million by convincing hundreds of senior citizens to submit to unnecessary genetic testing.

Seth Rehfuss faces two conspiracy counts in the indictment handed up Friday. It's not known if he's retains an attorney.

LINCOLN, N.D. (AP) — Heather Huus, of Lincoln, has been adjusting to her "new normal" ever since she had her stomach removed in August 2016.

After receiving unfavorable results from a genetic test, which indicated she was at risk for an inherited cancer syndrome, Huus, 32, made the fateful decision to undergo major surgery.

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (AP) — A Huntsville-based research organization is expanding a program to provide genetic testing for north Alabama residents.

The HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology says free and reduced-cost testing to determine cancer risks will be available for men and women in five Tennessee Valley counties.

The tests screen for mutations linked to breast and ovarian cancer, plus additional genes linked to diseases including colorectal and prostate cancer.

NEW YORK (AP) — For the first time, U.S. regulators have authorized a company to tell consumers directly about their individual genetic risk of certain diseases and conditions without involving a health care professional.

The California-based company 23andMe gained approval from the Food and Drug Administration to market genetic testing for risk of 10 ailments, including Parkinson's and Alzheimer's diseases.

CLEMSON, S.C. (AP) — Clemson University scientists say genetic testing shows a hive of bees suspected to be dangerous, volatile Africanized bees were actually a less dangerous European variety of honeybees.

The Clemson Department of Plant Industry said in a news release that initial genetic testing showed at least a 93 percent chance the hybrid bees that attacked a beekeeper and others in May in Charleston were the Africanized bees.