Vendor that mishandled Pa. COVID-19 medical data to pay $2.7M in federal whistleblower case

Staffing Company to Pay $2.7M for Alleged Failure to Provide Adequate Cybersecurity for COVID-19 Contact Tracing Data State health officials fired ... according to the U.S. Justice Department. Read More

Vendor that mishandled Pennsylvania virus data to pay $2.7 million in federal whistleblower case

A staffing company that performed COVID-19 contact tracing for Pennsylvania and exposed the private medical information of about 72,000 residents will pay $2.7 million in a settlement with the U.S. Ju ... Read More

US maternal mortality rate declines, but disparities remain, new CDC data shows

After a sharp rise in women dying in pregnancy, childbirth or postpartum earlier in the Covid-19 pandemic, rates decreased significantly in 2022, according to a new report from the US Centers for ... Read More

This Chinese virologist shared crucial Covid-19 data. Then his research hit hurdles

Scientist was lauded for his 2020 disclosure, but in the years since, people who know him say he has faced unprecedented roadblocks in his career in China. Read More

Vermont changes the way it reports Covid-19 data in response to CDC rules

The federal government ended requirements on hospitals to report their Covid admissions as hospitalizations dropped to a new low. Read More

Hospitals no longer required to report COVID-19 data to CDC

Hospitals are off the hook for data reporting requirements that have been in place since the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic. | Hospitals were required to share COVID-19 admissions, ICU capacity ... Read More

The Latest | Court in Trump's hush money trial adjourns for the day following Hope Hicks' testimony

Hope Hicks took the stand Friday in Donald Trump's hush money case, recounting in her morning testimony how she followed Trump from the real estate world ... Read More

Climate and Environment

By Max Bearak and Dionne Searcey U.S. Plan ... What’s causing global warming? How can we fix it? This interactive F.A.Q. will tackle your climate questions big and small. New guidelines attempt ... Read More

Every Tech Tool in the Classroom Should Be Ruthlessly Evaluated

Educational technology in schools is sometimes described as a wicked problem — a term coined by a design and planning professor, Horst Rittel, in the 1960s, meaning a problem for which even defining ... Read More

U.S. Lags Behind Other Countries in Hepatitis-C Treatment

“We’re not making progress ... hepatitis C drug Sovaldi, the U.S. is not any closer to eradicating the disease.Credit...Scott Nelson for The New York Times Carl Schmid, who directs the ... Read More

8 Best Car Insurance Companies Of May 2024

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