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NASA's plans for living in space should prioritize immunology and infectious disease
1+ hour, 40+ min ago (183+ words) By Scott E. Solomon In the aftermath of the successful Artemis II mission, NASA is moving forward with the next steps of its plans to establish a base on the moon. According to NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman, crews will be operating…...
Measles outbreak means my immunocompromised son can't leave the house without extreme safety measures
2+ day, 1+ hour ago (299+ words) Those precautions are now particularly urgent. North Carolina is one of the 32 states currently facing a measles outbreak. The disease is primarily spreading through school-age children and popping up in some of the most common communal gathering places for families....
Health care is not ready for the new era of AI-enabled cyberattacks
5+ day, 1+ hour ago (594+ words) On April 6, cancer patients at Brockton Hospital in Massachusetts showed up for chemotherapy infusions and were told to go home. The hospital's information systems had been hit by a cyberattack. The ER closed. Ambulances were diverted. Staff switched to paper…...
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Epic says it has uncovered rot in patient record sharing. Will HHS act?
4+ week, 1+ day ago (347+ words) Brittany Trang is a health tech reporter at STAT and writes the AI Prognosis newsletter. Previously, she was a 2022-2023 Sharon Begley Science Reporting Fellow at STAT and a 2021 AAAS Mass Media Fellow at the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. Her work has…...
Dana-Farber to pay $15 million to settle Justice Department lawsuit over manipulated data
4+ mon, 5+ day ago (306+ words) The Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, one of the nation's premier cancer research and treatment centers, is paying $15 million to settle a lawsuit claiming that some of its top researchers authored papers containing manipulated data." Dana-Farber also acknowledged in the settlement that…...
Hospitals and Epic demand better security for patient records
2+ mon, 3+ week ago (165+ words) STAT is a media company focused on finding and telling compelling stories about health, medicine, and scientific discovery. We produce daily news, investigative articles, and narrative projects in addition to multimedia features, podcasts, and opinion pieces. We tell our stories…...
Dozens of hospitals demand better security for patient record sharing in letter to officials
2+ mon, 4+ week ago (282+ words) Brittany Trang is a health tech reporter at STAT and writes the AI Prognosis newsletter. Previously, she was a 2022-2023 Sharon Begley Science Reporting Fellow at STAT and a 2021 AAAS Mass Media Fellow at the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. Her work has…...
My grandfather created the hepatitis B vaccine. Would he recognize public health in the U. S. today?
3+ mon, 1+ week ago (487+ words) By Emilie G. C. Thompson Baruch Samuel Blumberg, M. D. , Ph. D, led the team of American scientists who discovered the hepatitis B virus in 1965, then developed the first screening test and the first vaccine to protect against infection. In 1976, he was awarded the…...
Epic sues health information network over nearly 300, 000 illegally accessed records
3+ mon, 1+ week ago (236+ words) Brittany Trang is a health tech reporter at STAT and writes the AI Prognosis newsletter. Previously, she was a 2022-2023 Sharon Begley Science Reporting Fellow at STAT and a 2021 AAAS Mass Media Fellow at the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. Her work has…...