On August 29th, 2021 with 116 comments
Slashdot reader Charlotte Web quotes CNN: Elizabeth Holmes, the disgraced founder and former CEO of Theranos whose criminal trial is set to begin in a matter...
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On July 14th, 2021 with 267 comments
According to Politico, "Biden allied groups, including the Democratic National Committee, are [...] planning to engage fact-checkers more aggressively and work...
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On December 21st, 2020 with 144 comments
Former Department of Health data manager Rebekah Jones has filed a lawsuit (PDF) against the Florida Department of Law Enforcement, saying the Dec. 7 morning...
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On December 11th, 2020 with 145 comments
Earlier this week, Florida state police raided the home of Rebekah Jones, the data scientist who ran the state's coronavirus dashboard until she was fired in...
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On November 1st, 2020 with 80 comments
The BBC reports:
Slovakia has begun an ambitious project to test everyone over the age of 10 for Covid-19, but the president has said she thinks the idea is...
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On July 29th, 2020 with 247 comments
Speaker Nancy Pelosi says she will require all House members and aids to wear masks on the floor, after Texas Rep. Louie Gohmert who has at times flouted the...
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On July 14th, 2020 with 189 comments
The Trump administration is now ordering hospitals to send coronavirus patient data to a database in Washington, DC as part of a new initiative that may bypass...
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On June 21st, 2020 with 179 comments
Vietnam has reported no coronavirus deaths — and, for more than two months, no local infections (with a total for this year of just 349) — despite...
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On May 30th, 2020 with 151 comments
Slashdot reader DevNull127 quotes Buzzfeed News: Public health experts are accusing the CDC of bending under political pressure to say the coronavirus is less...
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On May 17th, 2020 with 127 comments
Long-time Slashdot reader tomtermite shares a report from The Guardian:
Ministers and officials from every nation will meet via video link on Monday for the...
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On May 12th, 2020 with 226 comments
If you choose to go out to eat at a restaurant in Washington, you will have to give the restaurant your name, phone number and email to facilitate contact...
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On May 7th, 2020 with 377 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The New York Times: As President Trump rushes to reopen the economy, a battle has erupted between the White House and...
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On April 18th, 2020 with 373 comments
This week U.S. president Donald Trump suspended America's $900 million annual contribution to the World Health Organization. Richard Horton, editor-in-chief...
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On March 27th, 2020 with 163 comments
President Trump on Friday signed into law the largest economic stimulus package in modern American history, backing a $2 trillion measure that expands on a...
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On January 24th, 2020 with 84 comments
An anonymous reader shares a report: People are panicking. When a new disease is discovered, it's undeniably hard to identify and inform the public about it...
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On January 11th, 2020 with 70 comments
Insecure storage systems being used by hundreds of hospitals, medical offices and imaging centers are exposing over 1 billion medical images of patients across...
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On December 22nd, 2019 with 110 comments
An anonymous reader quotes the Washington Post:
The nation's oldest anti-vaccine advocacy group often emphasizes that it is supported primarily by small...
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On November 13th, 2019 with 22 comments
Popular health websites are sharing private, personal medical data with big tech companies, according to an investigation by the Financial Times. From a...
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On October 13th, 2019 with 18 comments
dryriver writes:
A study in the British Medical Journal that looked at 24 of the 100s of Medical apps available on Google Play found that 79% pass all sorts...
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On September 19th, 2019 with 100 comments
The FDA has revealed a criminal investigation into the outbreak of vaping-related lung illnesses, which have risen to 530 across 38 states, according to the...
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