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What is Safe Enough?

2007-08-03 11:28:00 by Security Retentive in Security Retentive
 
...drug safety titled " FDA Drug Standards: What's Safe Enough? " I think a few of their points are pretty relevant to the discussion Does the FDA advisory panel's decision mean Avandia is safe It's safe enough, according to 22 of the 23 scientists on the FDA panel. That means the drug's benefits -- decreasing blood-sugar levels -- are more...
 
Tags: drug, fda drug standards, safe, fda, measure safe, drug safety, fda panel, fda advisory panel, market
 
 
 
 
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Measuring the Wrong Things?

2008-03-24 21:04:00 by Security Retentive in Security Retentive
 
...drugs, therapies, etc. to get to the diagnostic numbers they want, but now we're finding out that perhaps the numbers are not necessarily representing what we'd like them to The example from the article was Doctors call it "treating the numbers" trying to get a patient's test results to a certain target, which they assume will treat or...
 
Tags: security, security comparable, metrics, security metrics, drug, cholesterol drug, cholesterol, lowers cholesterol, workshop held
 
 
 
 
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Select Medical Corporation charged by the Texas Attorney General

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2008-01-11 16:20:31 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...drug screenings Investigators also discovered sensitive medical information among the records, including initial evaluation and plan of care forms, insurance verification sheets, drug and alcohol testing verification forms, and social and vocational therapy questionnaires The defendants are charged with improperly and unlawfully disposing...
 
Tags: clients personal information, personal information, sensitive personal information, information, sensitive medical information, customers sensitive information, texas attorney, texas, attorney
 
 
 
 
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Creating and Entrapping Terrorists

2008-03-05 06:25:43 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...drug dealer who was cooperating with federal agents to get his sentence reduced. Backed by the JTTF, Defreitas suddenly obtained the means to travel to the Caribbean, conduct Google Earth searches of JFK's grounds and build a complex, multifaceted, international terror conspiracy -- albeit one that was impossible to actually pull off. After...
 
Tags: terrorist, modern terrorist, hossain, terrorist conspiracies, deal hossain claims, yassin aref, aref, terrorist plot, stop federal agents
 
 
 
 
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Human error is blamed in WellCare Health Plans breach

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2008-04-09 12:39:08 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...drug plans, currently serving more than 2.3 million members nationwide Contractor/Consultant/Branch None Victims Members of "Georgia Families Number Affected up to 71,000 Types of Data name, birth date, dates of eligibility, Medicaid or PeachCare for Kids member identification number, social security number or other health plan related...
 
Tags: breach, wellcare, information, personal information, wellcare health plans, health plans, information technology issue, georgia families, breach description
 
 
 
 
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Murder, His Hard Drive Wrote

2008-05-23 04:00:00 by Marty Graham in Wired Security
 
...drug lords later convicted of murder and drug crimes in 2007), they recovered 14 phones including one with a photo of a machine gun," Adimari says She has hundreds of power and data cables, since they're all peculiar to individual phones. And she has a special box that blocks signals on the phones in the lab, so no information is lost or...
 
Tags: lab, murder, regional forensic lab, hard, hard drive, san diego lab, data cables, data, murder investigations
 
 
 
 
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Some Massachusetts seniors are at risk

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2007-12-04 16:17:26 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...drug insurance to seniors in Massachusetts Number Affected 150,000 Types of Data personal information Breach Description Authorities arrested an identity thief in August, 2007 who had been using information obtained from the Massachusetts Presrciption Advantage program in an attempted identity theft scheme. It is not yet clear how the...
 
Tags: breach, computer security breach, breach description, prescription advantage, security breach, prescription advantage program, data-breach laws, lone identity thief, thief
 
 
 
 
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Israel Mulls Viagra-Style Drugs to Keep Pilots Up

2008-02-08 18:15:00 by Danger Room in Wired Security
 
Air Forces all around the world drug their pilots, to keep 'em alert. A new Israeli military report says the "Viagra family of drugs" might be the best pills for the job. Seriously
 
Tags: israeli military report, world drug, viagra family, drugs, pilots, air forces, alert, job, pills
 
 
 
 
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What should done about employees stealing in the workplace?

2008-02-21 05:25:00 by John Sexton in The Bullet Proof Blog
 
...drug trafficking or gang activity, they probably would be able to dispatch some undercover units since there would be a very real risk of personal injury and/or serious felonies being committed When it comes to the private sector, clients really need to take the matter into their own hands in the majority of cases. By their own hands, I dont...
 
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Got Sopranos? Yet another thing I did not know as much about

2007-11-26 20:55:00 by Manu Namboodiri in Data Protection, Management and Leakage
 
...drug cartels or the arms dealers, but information is becoming the new dust Credit card numbers, card swipe data, etc., are selling for a princes ransom in the marketplace. You saw this recently on 60 minutes . There are websites that provide you with specific cards such as Visa Gold and you can bid on them! You shut one down and another pops...