- Hackers swipe data of 4.5M at UCLA Health System in massive cyberattack (healthcareitnews.com)
Cyberattack occurred in September 2014, patients just notified ...four-hospital UCLA Health System on Friday notified a staggering 4.5 million of its patients that their protected health information and Social Security numbers were compromised following one of the largest HIPAA breaches ever reported.
- Iowa State scientist sentenced to 57 months in prison for HIV vax trial fraud (biopharmadive.com)
Dong-Pyou Han,…. sentenced to 57 months in prison for vaccine trial fraud,.. falsified data.. mixed human HIV antibodies with rabbit blood.. to falsely show…. immunity to HIV… two counts of making false statements in order to obtain NIH research grants…. fined $7.2 million on top of his prison sentence…
- Drone to deliver medical supplies to southwest Va. Clinic (washingtonpost.com)Remote Area Medical (ramusa.org)
When a drone flies to a remote clinic in southwest Virginia...it will be delivering more than medical supplies....It will also be bringing hope to an impoverished coal mining region...delivering medicines to thousands of people seeking...medical care at the Remote Area Medical clinic in Wise County...first federally approved package delivery by a drone.“The application of drone delivery of medications is a no brainer,”..
- Your Google Searches Could Help the FDA Find Drug Side Effects (bloomberg.com)
Food and Drug Administration is talking to Google about how the search engine could help...identify previously unknown side effects of medications...using search query data to identify adverse drug reactions..
- Scientists warn of pollution from antibiotics (shanghaidaily.com)
"It worries me giving the pigs so many veterinary drugs to prevent them from getting ill," ..New research...shows China consumed 162,000 tons of antibiotics in 2013, or more than half of the global total. About 52 percent was used on livestock and 48 percent by humans. More than 50,000 tons ended up in the water and soil.
- Why some new drugs are truly earning the ‘innovative’ label (biopharmadive.com)
When it comes to innovation in the biopharma industry, the goal.. is to "break the possibility frontier." ..."me-too" drugs do not expand the possibility frontier..."The era of ‘me-too’ drugs is on the downtrend."...
- Pharmacy Ranks 2nd on Highest-Paying College Majors (pharmacytimes.com)
Pharmacy majors receive the second-highest median earnings among bachelor’s degree holders. Petroleum engineering was named the highest-earning major, with an average annual wage of $135,754. Pharmacy majors notched the next slot, at $113,000.
- Stem cell breakthrough for Salk Institute researchers (biopharmadive.com)
researchers have successfully turned unhealthy patients' cells into healthy, mutation-free stem cells...focused on finding cures for mitochondrial diseases..should now be able to generate heart, brain, muscle or eye cells from mutation-free stem cells....
- CVS Health investigates potential 3rd-party data breach (drugstorenews.com)
CVS Health...shut down access to its online and related mobile photo services as the company investigates a potential data breach..."We have been made aware that customer credit card information collected by the independent vendor who manages and hosts CVSPhoto.com may have been compromised,"...
- Artificial intelligence goes head to head against an unlikely target — your family doctor (extremetech.com)
Your.MD aims to change the way we self-diagnosis online…By using artificial intelligence to eliminate unlikely causes of a disease, the company claims to do away with many of the flaws common to the old method of googling ones symptoms..