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Anthem Hack Exposes Privacy Failings At Health Information Exchange Created By Health Insurers
The day after Anthem Blue Cross revealed that millions of customers’ information had been hacked, Consumer Watchdog and Patient Privacy Rights called on Cal INDEX, the health information database created by Anthem and Blue Shield of California, to allow consumers to opt-in rather than force them to opt-out. “The Anthem hack makes clear that no company can guarantee their customers’ information will be protected. Without that guarantee, consumers must have the ability to prevent their information from being shared before it occurs,” wrote Carmen Balber, Executive Director of Consumer Watchdog and Deborah C. Peel, MD, Founder and Chair of Patient Privacy Rights in a letter to the CEO of Cal INDEX...
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Anthrax Blunder Reveals Deadly Potential Of Accidents
A lab director has reportedly been reassigned and other heads at the U.S. Center for Disease Control are likely to roll after an incident earlier this month in which at least 75 staff members may have accidentally been exposed to live samples of anthrax being transported from one lab to another....
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Antibiotic Resistance Could Be Transmitted Through The Air From Farms
A new study shows scientists are starting to understand how antibiotic resistance from open-air farms can travel through the air to spread to human populations...
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Antibiotic Resistance Rise Continues
Antibiotic prescriptions and cases of resistant bacteria in England have continued to soar despite dire warnings and campaigns, figures show...
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Antibiotic Resistance Warnings Remain Unheeded, Experts Say
...Just as incurable viruses gain new footholds around the world, a growing number of bacterial infections that were once easily treatable are now withstanding modern medicine's arsenal of antibiotics. Twenty-three thousand Americans die from antibiotic-resistant pathogens every year...
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Antibiotic Resistance: How Industrial Agriculture Lies With Statistics
...The website of the Alliance, a coalition of corporations and trade associations that make up a who's who of industrial agriculture, says the organization wants "to engage in dialogue with consumers who have questions about how today's food is grown and raised." It appears, however, that the organization is more concerned with countering increasing awareness of the public health and environmental harms associated with industrialized agriculture...
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Antibiotic Use By Travelers May Add To Global Spread Of Superbugs
Taking antibiotics for diarrhea may put travelers visiting developing parts of the world at higher risk for contracting superbugs and spreading these daunting drug-resistant bacteria to their home countries, according to a new study published in Clinical Infectious Diseases and now available online...
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Antibiotic-free meat shows up on more hospital menus
Overlake is one of more than 500 U.S. hospitals, mostly on the West Coast and in the Northeast, working with Healthy Food in Health Care, an initiative of the national not-for-profit Health Care Without Harm. Read More »
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Antibiotic-Resistant Superbugs Could Send Britain 'Back To The Dark Ages'
BRITAIN is facing the real prospect of heading “back to the dark ages” because of superbugs that are resistant to antibiotics...
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Antibiotics 'Fail 15%' Of Patients Due To Superbugs And ‘Reckless’ Prescription [United Kingdom]
One in seven patients can no longer be helped by antibiotics because they are increasingly ineffective after being handed out too freely by GPs. Experts warn that common infections could become potentially life-threatening for Britons...
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Antidepressant Use Linked To Superbug Infections
...All medicines have both benefits and risks and antidepressants are no exception. According to a new study, people who take certain antidepressants are at increased risk for superbug infections...
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APIcon UK: Open Source Fuels The API Economy
Industry leaders say open source is the backbone of the software infrastructure required to fuel the API economy. At APIcon UK, Simon Phipps, president of the Open Source Initiative, explained why open source licensing will enable the API and Internet of Things economies to grow...
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Appeals Court Overturns Conviction Of AT&T Hacker 'Weev'
A federal appeals court rules that Andrew "Weev" Auernheimer was tried in the wrong state and overturns his conviction under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act.
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Apple 'Failing To Protect Chinese Factory Workers'
Poor treatment of workers in Chinese factories which make Apple products has been discovered by an undercover BBC Panorama investigation...
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Apple Announces ResearchKit Available Today to Medical Researchers
Apple® today announced ResearchKit™, a software framework designed for medical and health research that helps doctors, scientists and other researchers gather data more frequently and more accurately from participants using mobile devices, is now available to researchers and developers. The first research apps developed using ResearchKit study asthma, breast cancer, cardiovascular disease, diabetes and Parkinson’s disease, and have enrolled over 60,000 iPhone® users in just the first few weeks of being available on the App Store™.* Starting today, medical researchers all over the world will be able to use ResearchKit to develop their own apps and developers can also contribute new research modules to the open source framework. Read More »
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