As much as 750 University of Missouri (UM) employees had their personal information exposed after their health benefit statements were delivered to the wrong addresses earlier this month.The data breach incident occurred between January 6th and 10th, and was caused by a computer error at Coventry Health Care, the com... |
25 January 2011
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A new research conducted by China Medical University concluded that patients suffering from tuberculosis are at higher risk of developing lung cancer.To date, no clear association between tuberculosis and lung cancer has been established, but this new study brings evidence of an increased lung cancer risk in people w... |
3 January 2011
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A bogus upgrade on the Anthem Blue Cross website has left the personally identifiable information of around 230,000 people freely accessible on the Internet for months. The company is sending out notification letters to affected individuals and is offering them a free one-year subscription with an identity protection... |
28 June 2010
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Aetna, one of the largest health care benefit companies in the U.S., alerted around 65,000 current and former employees that their Social Security Numbers might have been stolen by hackers. The breach occurred on the company's job application website, which was being maintained by a partner.A few weeks ago, the ... |
30 May 2009
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Comprehensive statewide data recorded in California throughout 2007 revealed to UCLA researchers conducting a new statistical study that nearly 6.4 million state residents had no health insurance either for a while, or for the whole year. Some 20 percent of those under the age of 65 also lacked insurances for the sam... |
16 December 2008
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While most civilized countries employ a public health service, the United States continue to lag behind, being caught in the clutches of various private insurance firms, which have their own interest in mind, instead of that of the policy beneficiary. This was further proven recently, when Medicare – the compan... |
18 November 2008
05:52 GMT |
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