Kay Dibben reports: A surgical assistant at a Brisbane private hospital secretly used his GoPro camera to film inside an operating theatre, as a female patient was about to have bariatric surgery. The filming at the Wesley Hospital was only discovered as the surgery was about to start and the doctor said he had to…
Category: Healthcare
Senator calls for more scrutiny of home DNA test industry
Daniella Silva reports: … “These are the kits where you swab your cheek or maybe spit into a little vial send it back to a company and in return they’re unravel your DNA,” Schumer, the Senate Democratic leader, said at a news conference Sunday morning. Schumer cited the rising popularity of home genetic kits and…
Activists launch legal challenge against NHS patient data-sharing deal
Rebecca Hill reports: A civil rights group has launched a legal challenge in the UK against a deal that asks the NHS to share patient data for immigration enforcement. The agreement allows the Home Office to ask the NHS to hand over non-clinical information on patients – like date of birth or last known address…
A London plastic surgery practice experiences one of the worst breaches of 2017
This is the type of media coverage that makes me grit my teeth. Publications speculating about what “royal” may have had what type of plastic surgery, and how they might be blackmailed or extorted about it by the hackers known as TheDarkOverlord. In this case, the breach being discussed was a hack of a plastic…