Health info for 1 million patients stolen using critical GoAnywhere vulnerability | Ars Technica

One of the biggest hospital chains in the US said hackers obtained protected health information for 1 million patients after exploiting a vulnerability in an enterprise software product called GoAnywhere.Community Health Systems of Franklin, Tennessee, said in a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission on Monday that the attack…

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NOT-OD-23-029: Notice of Special Interest (NOSI): Research on Gender Measurement (Admin Supp Clinical Trial Optional)

Purpose: The Office of Research on Women’s Health (ORWH) announces the availability of administrative supplements to support research testing gender terminology (e.g., woman, man, nonbinary) for measuring current gender identity as part of the two-step method of data collection (sex assigned at birth and current gender identity). Read more on…

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Family found dead in Pennsylvania made a ‘joint decision’ to kill themselves, police say

A Pennsylvania family found shot dead in their backyard last week in what police say appears to be a suicide pact, included a mother and daughter who loved bowling and were devout Christian conservatives, people who knew them said… “They were just so hell-bent on Trump winning, like this could…

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Why Do Black People Avoid Therapy?

An important question and discussion. Urusula and her guests talk about the stigma of mental issues and illness, combined with mistrust for often hostile systems, that keeps Africans from seeking help even in the Motherland. They also go into mental health support options that are more attractive than talk therapy,…

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Probiotic markedly reduces S. aureus colonization in Phase 2 trial | National Institutes of Health (NIH)

A promising approach to control Staphylococcus aureus bacterial colonization in people – using a probiotic instead of antibiotics – was safe and highly effective in a Phase 2 clinical trial. The new study, reported in The Lancet Microbe, found that the probiotic Bacillus subtilis markedly reduced S. aureus colonization in…

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