Collaborate Disseminate
An NHS health board has found itself in the awkward position of apologising to 37 HIV patients, after accidentally disclosing their identities.
Continue reading NHS service accidentally reveals identities of HIV patients in email blunder
Singapore’s Ministry of Health said the HIV status of 14,200 people, plus confidential data of 2,400 of their contacts, is in the possession of somebody who’s not authorized to have it and who’s published it online. Continue reading 14k HIV+ records leaked, Singapore says sorry
The records breach of HIV-positive individuals is the latest in a string of data breaches at Singapore’s Ministry of Health Health records in Singapore have been finding their way out of their “secure” storage and into the public domain of late…. Continue reading Records Breach: Singapore’s HIV-Positive National Registry Exposed
It was early 1983 and Françoise Barré-Sinoussi of the prestigious Pasteur Institute in Paris was busy at the centrifuge trying to detect the presence of a retrovirus. The sample in the centrifuge came from an AIDS patient, though the disease wasn’t called AIDS yet.
Just two years earlier in the US, a cluster of young men had been reported as suffering from unusual infections and forms of cancer normally experienced by the very old or by people using drugs designed to suppress the immune system. More cases were reported and US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) formed a …read more
Grindr has found itself with the uncomfortable job of explaining why it has quietly been sharing the HIV status of its users with third parties. Continue reading Grindr was sharing HIV status of users, but now it’s not
By Waqas
Grindr shared personal, HIV and geolocation-related data with two of
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Continue reading Gay dating app Grindr shared user HIV & location data with third-parties
Aetna has agreed to pay $17 million as part of a settlement agreement for a breach that might have compromised thousands of HIV patients’ privacy. On 16 January, the United States District Court for the Eastern District Court of Pennsylvania rece… Continue reading Aetna Accepts $17M Settlement Agreement for HIV Privacy Breach
Graphene has attracted enormous interest for electrically detecting chemical and biological materials. However, because the super material doesn’t act like a normal semiconductor, transistors require multiple layers of the material, and that’s bad for 1/f noise especially when the transistors operate at maximum transconductance. Researchers have found a way to operate graphene transistors at a neutral point, significantly reducing 1/f noise while not impacting the sensor’s response.
The team created a proof-of concept sensor that could detect an HIV-related DNA hybridization. The sensor was able to detect very tiny concentrations of the material.
The ion-sensitive field-effect transistors (ISFETs) employed in …read more
American managed health care company Aetna is in hot water for accidentally exposing the HIV statuses of 12,000 of its patients.
David Bisson reports.
Continue reading Oops! Aetna exposed 12,000 customers’ HIV statuses through envelope window
From Ebola, to Zika, to HIV, Dr. Nelson Michael isn’t afraid of a challenge. Continue reading The Vaccine Hunter: Nelson Michael Is Working to End Humanity’s Worst Diseases
