From the Your Papers, Please! Department: Since February 4, the mandate of imposing full and booster vaccination from Austrian citizens has entered force in the country. As a result, President Alexander Van der Bellen has signed the new law, according to which all adults residing in the country have to be vaccinated or risk being…
Category: Healthcare
Rep. Brian Mast Introduces Bill to Defend Medical Privacy in Military
Peter Malbin reports: Rep Brian Mast, R-Fla., has introduced legislation to defend service members who have been discharged for exercising their right to medical privacy by declining to take the COVID-19 vaccine. The bill would require the Secretaries of the Army, Navy, and Air Force to reinstate, at their previous rank, the soldiers, sailors, airmen,…
Health Sites Let Ads Track Visitors Without Telling Them
Lily Hay Newman reports: ALL TOO OFTEN, digital ads wind up improperly targeting the most vulnerable people online, including abuse victims and kids. Add to that list the customers of several digital-medicine and genetic-testing companies, whose sites used ad-tracking tools that could have exposed information about people’s health status. In a recent study from researchers at Duke University and the…
Where a Thousand Digital Eyes Keep Watch Over the Elderly
Ben Dooley and Hisako Ueno report: As Japan rapidly ages, it is envisioning fundamental changes, even in infrastructure. Is electronic surveillance an answer to its epidemic of dementia? ITAMI, Japan — In his early 70s, Koji Uchida began to vanish. The first time, the police found him sitting in front of a vending machine 17…