On June 22nd, 2024 with 10 comments
Change Healthcare has confirmed a February ransomware attack on its systems, which brought widespread disruption to the U.S. healthcare system for weeks and...
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On March 18th, 2024 with 98 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from the Associated Press: The Environmental Protection Agency on Monday announced a comprehensive ban on asbestos, a...
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On March 9th, 2024 with 39 comments
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On March 2nd, 2024 with 81 comments
"A ransomware gang once thought to have been crippled by law enforcement has snarled prescription processing for millions of Americans over the past week..."...
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On December 29th, 2023 with 11 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Bloomberg, written by Naomi Kresge: In the early days of the Covid-19 pandemic, hundreds of scientists from all over...
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On December 8th, 2023 with 151 comments
The Biden administration is threatening to cancel the patents of some costly medications to allow rivals to make their own more affordable versions. The...
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On April 28th, 2023 with 13 comments
Yesterday, Washington Governor Jay Inslee signed the My Health, My Data bill into law, requiring companies to receive a user's explicit consent before they can...
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On March 17th, 2023 with 85 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Register: A cancer patient whose nude medical photos and records were posted online after they were stolen by a...
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On March 6th, 2023 with 221 comments
America's public health-protecting Food and Drug Administration wants to update its definition of "healthy" for purposes of product labeling.
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On August 13th, 2022 with 26 comments
The Independent reports that the UK's National Health System is experiencing a major outage "expected to last for more than three weeks" after a third-party...
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On April 1st, 2022 with 71 comments
"According to The Verge, health providers writing Google reviews about patients with identifiable information is a HIPAA violation," writes Slashdot reader...
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On February 5th, 2022 with 79 comments
CNN reports that wastewater-based epidemiology "has proven to be so reliable in dozens of pilot projects across the U.S. that the government has invested...
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On January 20th, 2022 with 64 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Guardian: An initial CIA investigation into the mysterious set of symptoms known as Havana syndrome has found that...
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On December 9th, 2021 with 25 comments
Over 40 million people in the United States had their personal health information exposed in data breaches this year, a significant jump from 2020 and a...
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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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"Unibus timeout fatal trap program lost sorry" - An error message printed by DEC's RSTS operating system for the PDP-11
