Your Medical Records Are for Sale
Your Medical Records Are for Sale
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Yet the records often contain patients' ages, Zip Codes, and treatment dates—enough metadata for an inquiring mind to match names to files or for aggressive companies to target ads or hike insurance premiums. Latanya Sweeney, the … Demand for the …
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Pro-lifers rally in front of ABC News to condemn abortion 'censorship'
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WASHINGTON — Pro-life activists rallied outside ABC News Thursday, demanding the network and the mainstream media cover the seedy details of the abortion industry. “It's time to report the truth about abortion,” rally organizer Lila Rose, president of …
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When Meditation Helps Mental Illness — And When It Hinders
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“Traditional treatment [tells] people how [craving and addiction] work,” says Sarah Bowen, acting assistant professor of psychiatry at the University of Washington, who has studied meditation in treating alcohol and illegal drug addictions. …. This …
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US health regulators approve Alere's HIV test
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Aug 8 (Reuters) – The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved health diagnostics and services company Alere Inc's test to treat two types of human immunodeficiency viruses (HIV) that cause the fatal infection, AIDS. Determine HIV-1/2 … According …
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