Mary Seacole: healthcare pioneer

Mary Seacole helped to combat racial prejudices within the Crimean war. Using herbal medicines that she acquired form her Jamaican roots, she helped the wounded soldiers from the battlefields. A forgotten treasure to our history, Mary Seacole is the nurse that has paved the way for many black women that…

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Health-care website’s security concerns eased

Cybersecurity concerns over the federal government’s health-care website have been cleared up through testing, a government security professional who had qualms about the system assured lawmakers yesterday. But a congressional hearing featuring three senior technology experts from the Health and Human Services Department also revealed a broader internal debate before the…

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Obama healthcare law could worsen U.S. deficits: study

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Barack Obama's healthcare law could sharply exceed its cost-savings targets and add up to $530 billion to the federal budget deficit, a leading authority on U.S. government benefit programs said on Tuesday. A study by Charles Blahous, a George Mason University research fellow and the Republican…

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Healthcare Breaches Getting Costlier

Since this time last year, some 6.6 million unsecured records have been exposed, in a variety of incidents, ranging from deliberate hacking, through theft of laptops down to the slightly less dramatic loss of paper records. View full post on eSecurityPlanet RSS Feed View full post on National Cyber Security

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