When Dr. Collis joined the Hawaii Permanente Medical Group in 2001, he saw an opportunity to leverage resources to fight hepatitis C. The clinic was founded in 2004 with a modest budget and quickly doubled the cure rates of patients within Kaiser Permanente in Hawaii. The approval of direct-acting medications such as Harvoni in late … Read more
Hackers claim to have published a trove of sensitive data belonging to IVF patients after a cyberattack on Genea, one of Australia’s largest fertility providers. Genea said last week that it had experienced a cybersecurity incident that led to sensitive patient information potentially being compromised. In a statement given to TechCrunch on Wednesday, Genea CEO … Read more
By M. Marin NASDAQ:AEMD Aethlon Medical (NASDAQ:AEMD) announced that the first patient in its Australian safety, feasibility and dose-finding clinical trial has been treated with the Hemopurifier. The trial is designed for patients with solid tumors who have stable or progressive disease during anti-PD-1 monotherapy treatment. In other words, the trial is evaluating the Hemopurifier … Read more
Jan 31, 2025Ravie LakshmananVulnerability / Healthcare The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) have issued alerts about the presence of hidden functionality in Contec CMS8000 patient monitors and Epsimed MN-120 patient monitors. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-0626, carries a CVSS v4 score of 7.7 on a scale … Read more
A person in Louisiana is hospitalized with H5N1 bird flu after having contact with sick and dying birds suspected of carrying the virus, state health officials announced Friday. It is the first human H5N1 case detected in Louisiana. For now, the case is considered a “presumptive” positive until testing is confirmed by the Centers for … Read more