by Charles Ornstein ProPublica, April 19, 2017, 12 p.m. This story was co-published with The New York Times. The State of New Jersey is moving to revoke or suspend the license of a prominent psychologist, accusing him of failing to prevent details of patients’ mental health diagnoses and treatments from being disclosed when his practice…
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OR: Personal info no longer recorded at pot shops; dispensaries to destroy info already on file
Ariana Rakhshani reports: Some worried about the federal implications of marijuana are rejoicing. Governor Kate Brown signed a bill protecting those who shop at pot retailers. Dispensaries have been required to keep customers’ personal information; it allowed the state to audit dispensaries to make sure they were only selling the legal amount to someone within…
Mom outraged when daughter, 16, gets birth-control implant after school arranges trip to clinic
From the sorry-mom-but-your-kid-has-rights-too dept: Dave Urbanski reports: An Oklahoma mother is outraged after she said her 16-year-old daughter got a birth-control implant in her arm from a Tulsa clinic during a trip there arranged by her daughter’s school. “Had I known that this field trip was for her to get that done, I would not…
Data security in medical studies: IT researchers break anonymity of gene databases
Saarland University issued the following press release today: “Ever since American scientists successfully attacked a study in 2008, where just parts of the DNA were enough to identify participants, researchers have been debating if, and in what detail, we should be permitted to publish gene data,” says Michael Backes, who is professor for Cryptography and…