1.   Another privacy effort is a challenge Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, D-Mass., is preparing to the rules established by the Bush administration for medical privacy.

2.   Bereano has written extensively on the issue of privacy and helped McDermott draft legislation to safeguard medical privacy.

3.   A player who maintained that medical privacy rights were violated would appear to have several remedies.

4.   Advisers to Bush said he supported the principle of medical privacy but would want to review the new rules.

5.   But in select areas, such as medical privacy, lawmakers are trying to put on the brakes.

6.   Consumer advocates describe the rules as a milestone in the history of American medicine, the first comprehensive federal standards for medical privacy.

7.   Creating stronger protections for medical privacy is supposed to be the whole point of this exercise.

8.   Diane E. Lopez, a Harvard lawyer who handles medical privacy, said the law requires confidentiality except when a student is deemed incompetent or a threat to others.

9.   Dr. Daniel Callahan, an ethicist and co-founder of the Hastings Center for Bioethics in Garrison, N.Y., argued that medical privacy should be suspended for presidential candidates.

10.   Existing laws concerning health and medical privacy, credit card theft and identity theft already apply to Internet businesses, she said.